Michael Ondaatje is the author of six previous novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize; Anil's Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje now lives in Toronto.
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.
In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? And what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, explaining nothing, excusing nothing? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time, and it is this journey--through facts, recollection, and imagination--that he narrates in this masterwork from one of the great writers of our time.
开始接触这本书,是被浦东图书馆公众号送书活动的一篇文章吸引,主题是“看完这本书,可以对所有的耿耿于怀都能放下”,之后种草好久,在去年双十二拿下。今天,终于看完了,老实说,看的不是那么畅快。如果不是回头翻看了那篇公众号的文章,我已经忘记当初种草的理由了。整本...
评分《战时灯火》是我阅读过的第二本迈克尔·翁达杰作品,之前那本是《英国病人》。如果说两者有一些相似之处,那么首先是背景,都是采用第二次世界大战来展开故事;其次是都包含有阶级或种族的冲突,上将与平民、移民与土著;再就是对于孤独和抑郁的刻画,类似病人与孤儿。当然,...
评分文 / 芮娜 本书是《英国病人》作者迈克尔·翁达杰的新作《战时灯火》,在书的腰封上,我们可以看到它的宣传语是“诺贝尔奖得主石黑一雄熟读到可以背出来的书”。其实石黑一雄对翁达杰及其作品的喜爱几乎人尽皆知。据说,石黑一雄熟读《战时灯火》到可以随口说出书中细节的程度...
评分开始接触这本书,是被浦东图书馆公众号送书活动的一篇文章吸引,主题是“看完这本书,可以对所有的耿耿于怀都能放下”,之后种草好久,在去年双十二拿下。今天,终于看完了,老实说,看的不是那么畅快。如果不是回头翻看了那篇公众号的文章,我已经忘记当初种草的理由了。整本...
评分文 / 芮娜 本书是《英国病人》作者迈克尔·翁达杰的新作《战时灯火》,在书的腰封上,我们可以看到它的宣传语是“诺贝尔奖得主石黑一雄熟读到可以背出来的书”。其实石黑一雄对翁达杰及其作品的喜爱几乎人尽皆知。据说,石黑一雄熟读《战时灯火》到可以随口说出书中细节的程度...
應該集中時間一口氣讀完的,最好一週內;這樣章節間交織的不確定的記憶、身份、謊言、秘密……才能恰到好處地揉合到一起,品出時間的苦香。Ondaatje依然在反高潮式地寫作,總是能用寥寥一百多字的段落揭露一個人物的內心、或者生活細小物件折射的命運悲歡。沒有English Patient 精湛,但依然讓人沉溺。#201901
评分太喜欢Olive了,在二战和冷战接连不断的创伤中,她就是自由和鲜活的化身,极尽洒脱~~真正的自由,是把自己还给自己。
评分弃了的。
评分第一部分差点弃了,好在第二部分看到草蛇灰线
评分对于人生残缺的篇章,有的人执意舍去,像姐姐Rachel,有的人长久凝视,固执要找到那些“我本该知道的”答案,正如Nat。而当我一次次重返故事,看到特工母亲用尽方式保护子女周全,却对自己缺席的原因讳莫如深,看到Nat时常怀疑父母离场的那段时间自己到底拥有过什么,等到母亲最终归来,换来的也只是沉默,‘I grew up with your silence...’,终于明白家国使命,人心阻隔,缺席的日子早已在两人之间划出长路迢迢。 时间力拨千钧,而人能挽回的太少,Rachel对弟弟说‘we are damaged, choose your own life’,其实是对的。 我以为我可以在这个故事里,为那些离散的遗憾找到偿还,但原来生活中无法做到的,在故事中也同样无能为力。那些独自穿越的
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