A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most "prodigiously talented" (The New York Times Book Review) novelists.
An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers―each summoned in different ways by trees―are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest.
In his twelfth novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of―and paean to―the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, exploring the essential conflict on this planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. There is a world alongside ours―vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
The Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity’s self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak, what would they tell us? "Listen. There’s something you need to hear."
Richard Powers is the author of twelve novels, most recently The Overstory. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Award, and he has been a Pulitzer Prize and four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
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10% into the book I felt this would be the kind of books that a reader fascinated with trees should like, but somewhere in my mind there was a strange reservation, a suspicion that the author may not deliver on the promises. 30% into the book I was disappoi...
评分10% into the book I felt this would be the kind of books that a reader fascinated with trees should like, but somewhere in my mind there was a strange reservation, a suspicion that the author may not deliver on the promises. 30% into the book I was disappoi...
评分10% into the book I felt this would be the kind of books that a reader fascinated with trees should like, but somewhere in my mind there was a strange reservation, a suspicion that the author may not deliver on the promises. 30% into the book I was disappoi...
评分10% into the book I felt this would be the kind of books that a reader fascinated with trees should like, but somewhere in my mind there was a strange reservation, a suspicion that the author may not deliver on the promises. 30% into the book I was disappoi...
评分10% into the book I felt this would be the kind of books that a reader fascinated with trees should like, but somewhere in my mind there was a strange reservation, a suspicion that the author may not deliver on the promises. 30% into the book I was disappoi...
这本小说给我的感受,简直就像是走进了一片古老而宏伟的森林。那种扑面而来的生命力和复杂性,让人感到既敬畏又心安。作者对于自然界的描摹,不是那种教科书式的干燥描述,而是充满了诗意的想象和深沉的理解。你会真切地感受到,那些高耸入云的树木,它们不仅仅是植物,更像是活着的、拥有悠久历史的生命体,它们以我们难以察觉的缓慢节奏,观察着人类世界的一切变迁。书中的叙事结构非常巧妙,像是树木的根系一样,在不同的时间线和人物命运之间错综交织,最终汇聚成一个宏大的生命网络。我特别喜欢作者处理时间流逝的方式,它让你意识到,人类的生命不过是这漫长自然史中的一瞬,这种对比带来的哲学思考是极其深刻的。读完之后,我发现自己看待周围的树木的方式都变了,仿佛能听见它们无声的对话,感知到它们共享的地下信息系统。它不仅仅是一本书,更像是一次沉浸式的、对生态学和存在意义的冥想之旅,让人愿意反复回味其中的细节和隐喻。那种与大地深层连接的感觉,是很多当代小说难以给予的体验,它触及了我们内心深处对“根”和“家园”的原始渴望。
评分这本书的节奏感非常独特,它不像传统的小说那样追求快速的戏剧冲突,反而更倾向于一种缓慢的、积累性的力量。阅读的过程就像是在经历四季的更迭,有时是春日萌发的生机勃勃,有时是冬日万物沉寂下的内在积蓄。我特别注意到了作者在语言上的选择,它既有古典文学的韵律美,又充满了现代的敏锐和批判性。不同章节的“声调”差异很大,有的像是一篇激昂的宣言,有的则像是一封写给远方老友的私密信件。这种多声部的交织,使得整个故事不再是一个单一的线性叙事,而更像是一部交响乐,各个声部独立演奏,却又在关键时刻汇合成磅礴的合奏。它迫使我跳出习惯性的线性思维,去接受事物之间相互依存、循环往复的哲学。读完后,我发现自己对“时间”这个概念有了全新的认识,它不再仅仅是时钟上的刻度,而是一种活着的、有重量的实体,承载着过去、现在与未来的全部重量。
评分老实说,一开始我以为这会是一本关于环境保护的严肃说教之作,但读进去才发现,它的野心远不止于此。这本书构建的世界观极其宏大,它将科学的严谨性与神话般的想象力完美地融合在了一起。叙事线索众多,每一个角色的命运都像是一根独立的藤蔓,各自生长,却又被同一个主题的阳光和雨露滋养。我尤其欣赏作者对人物内心世界的刻画,他们都不是完美的圣人,而是被复杂的情感、失落和执念所驱使的普通人,他们对自然的痴迷或对抗,都折射出人性中难以磨灭的矛盾。文字的密度非常高,你需要放慢速度,仔细咀嚼每一个段落,否则很容易错过那些精妙的转折和隐藏的象征意义。有那么几段,我甚至需要停下来,去查阅一些相关的植物学知识,才能完全理解作者是如何用科学的细节来支撑其宏大的文学构想的。这种阅读体验是需要投入精力的,但回报也是巨大的——你会获得一种近乎“顿悟”的快感,感觉自己窥见了某种宇宙运行的秘密法则,而这一切都隐藏在日常的枝叶和树干之中。
评分坦白讲,我一开始有点被角色的数量吓到,感觉像是在读一本复杂的历史史诗,需要不断地翻回前面的章节来确认谁是谁,他们的关联在哪里。但一旦你适应了这种“广角镜头”式的叙事方式,你就会发现每一个人物,即使出现得再短暂,都有其不可替代的意义。这本书的结构非常像一个复杂的生态系统模型,每一个物种——也就是每一个角色——都在特定的生态位上发挥着作用,它们的缺失都会影响到整体的平衡。我印象最深的是作者处理“跨代影响”的方式。你看到一个角色为了某个信念付出了巨大的代价,而这个代价却以一种你意想不到的方式,在几十年后回馈给了另一个完全不同的人。这让我深思,我们今天的每一个选择,是否都在无意中为遥远的未来播下了种子?它不是那种读完就扔掉的娱乐读物,而是那种需要被放在案头,时不时翻阅,每次都能发现新东西的“工具书”——当然,这里的工具是用来打磨灵魂的。
评分我必须承认,阅读这本书需要极大的耐心,它对读者的要求很高,因为它不满足于提供一个简单的故事。它更像是一份精心绘制的地图,标记了人类与非人类世界之间那些模糊不清的边界。作者对于“信任”和“背叛”的探讨,特别是当对象是自然界而非人类个体时,显得尤为新鲜和尖锐。那种被欺骗的感觉,不是来自人与人之间的阴谋,而是源于我们对自然力量的傲慢和误判。书中的情节高潮来得并不猛烈,它更像是一种缓慢的、不可避免的压力积累,最终导致了无可挽回的转变。我特别喜欢作者在描述那些极端环境下的生存挣扎时所展现出的冷静和精准,没有过度的煽情,只有对生命韧性的客观呈现。这本书成功地打破了我对“英雄主义”的传统定义,真正的强大,或许在于适应和共存的能力,而不是征服。它教会我用更谦卑的视角去审视我们所站立的这片土地,并且对那些沉默的、看不见的生命形式,投以应有的尊重。
评分如同一部献给树木的厚重的忏悔书 各个人物交织一起呼应着完成的悲歌。比起人物情节,对树木内在的力量描述更为深入。单词好难。
评分Contrived and cliched.
评分如同一部献给树木的厚重的忏悔书 各个人物交织一起呼应着完成的悲歌。比起人物情节,对树木内在的力量描述更为深入。单词好难。
评分如同一部献给树木的厚重的忏悔书 各个人物交织一起呼应着完成的悲歌。比起人物情节,对树木内在的力量描述更为深入。单词好难。
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