Tom Rob Smith (born 1979) is an English writer. The son of a Swedish mother and an English father, Smith was raised in London where he lives today. After graduating from Cambridge University in 2001, he completed his studies in Italy, studying creative writing for a year. After these studies, he worked as a scriptwriter.
His first novel, Child 44, about a series of child murders in Stalinist Russia, appeared in early 2008 and was translated into 17 languages. It was awarded the 2008 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the year by the Crime Writer's Association. It was recently a Barnes & Noble recommended book. On July 29, 2008 the book was named on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. In November 2008, he was nominated for the 2008 Costa First Novel Award (former Whitbread).
Child 44 followed-up by The Secret Speech (2009)and Agent 6 (2011).
MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...
有书评把这本和勒卡雷比,这必须是溢美之词,也许是期望太高,我想说说问题。 1,前半部分很好,尤其是里奥接受考验的部分之前,有人说对苏联的状态描述过份夸张,但第一我们没经历过没细考据过不敢断言,第二其实那不重要,这本书再怎么说也是娱乐小说而不是历史反思,为了故...
評分某外国科学家曾经做过一个著名的测试,测试者被询问,在村庄遇到暴徒袭击的情况下,如果捂死你自己的孩子,就可以保住你自己还有村里所有人的性命,你会怎么做。结果显示多数人都选择会捂死自己的孩子,理性战胜了情感,生命便得以延续,这是人类数万年来繁衍的本能反应。但这...
評分翻译基本靠谱,从风格上来说,本书应该适用简短有力的句子,可有可无的字眼都应该删掉,如果译文能更简洁一点会更好。 可能美中不足的地方在于有些名词的翻译不太好。第96页提到的“尼基塔·克鲁什切夫”,其实就是赫鲁晓夫,此处的人名译法似乎不妥(奇怪的是本书结尾处对赫鲁...
評分“走进农舍,男孩的尸体不见了。炉子上放着一个大锅,锅里在咕噜咕噜冒泡,不知炖着什么。安娜领着他(主人公帕维尔)坐到炉旁,史蒂芬盛满满的一碗递给他。他低头盯着这碗热气腾腾的汤:碗里漂着压碎的橡实,关节和一条条的肉,史蒂芬和安娜看着他,史蒂芬说道:‘你本来会死...
評分《44号孩子》是英国作家汤姆•罗伯•史密斯的处女作,读罢确有惊艳之感,不得不说那些让作者载誉的奖项当属实至名归。 小说开篇就以追捕为缘起,把读者带入了紧张而离奇的推理氛围当中,孩子们在追捕骨瘦如柴的猫,为了喂食同样形容枯槁的自己和家人,熟不知他们已...
因為作者是豆瓣用戶醬的同學,他送我之後硬是從08年底拖到現在纔看。。。麵癱
评分敘述非常流暢,也許太流暢瞭,閱讀時幾乎不用動大腦,作者把方方麵麵都交代得太清楚瞭。所以,和嚴肅文學比,這本書和所有暢銷書一樣擁有完美的story,但缺失narrative。另,故事裏有兩個顯而易見的賣點:1)英國式的腐; 2)歐美對蘇聯的政治意淫(與《紅色十月號》一個路子)。
评分這是一個不錯的劇本。
评分古拉格群島的味道
评分finally finished,awesome thriller
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