书籍介绍
这不是一本越战小说。读者反复提及的，是Ted Lavender之死、是Martha那封被抚摸一万次的信、是 grenade 炸响前漫长的沉默——那些无法被统计进伤亡数字的东西。O'Brien让士兵们背负的，是愧疚、恐惧、爱意与羞耻这些看不见的重量，而它们恰恰拥有自己的质量与重力。全书最尖锐处，在于作者不断拆解「真实」：一件事确实发生了，却可能是彻底的谎言；一个从未发生的故事，反而更接近真相。他不要你记住战术与胜负，只要你「感受到我所感受的」。它适合那些对宏大战争叙事感到厌倦、却仍被某个士兵的私人记忆击中的人。读完你会明白，为何有人读完后胸口被狠捶一下，隔许久都想重读。
AI导读
核心看点
- 虚实交织叙事，探讨故事真相与事实真相
- 聚焦士兵背负的情感重负与战争创伤
- 打破传统战争文学道德说教，直面人性
读者共识
- 文字极具穿透力，情感深沉且令人窒息
- 重新定义战争故事，超越血腥聚焦人性
- 公认越战文学巅峰，值得反复研读回味
精彩摘录
- "You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, "Is it true?" and if the answer matters, you've got your answer. For example, we've all heard this one. Four guys go down a trail. A grenade sails out. One guy jumps on it and takes the "
- "I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening truth."
- "And I can say, honestly, "Of course not."Or I can say, honestly, "Yes.""
- "They carried infections. They carried chess sets, basketballs, Vietnamese-English dictionaries, insignia of rank, Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts, plastic cards imprinted with the Code of Conduct, They carried diseases, among them malaria and dysentery. They carried lice and ringworm and leeches and "
- "...In part he was grieving for Ted Lavender, but mostly it was for Martha, and for himself, because she belonged to another world, which was not quite real, and because she was a junior at Mount Sebastian College in new Jersey, a poet and a virgin and uninvolved, and because he realized she did not "
- "Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night wh"
- "The day was cloudy. I passed through towns with familiar names, through the pine forests and down to the prairie, and then to Vietnam, where I was a soldier, and then home again. I survived, but it's not a happy ending. I was a coward. I went to the war."
- "A war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of"
用户评论
有很多很好的章节和意想不到的故事，但是我不太喜欢，作者的文笔太敏感太抒情，文艺青年的爱，but this is war! Audio版是绝命毒师的老白读的。
They carried their reputations. They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing.
终于理解了Fire Away中的致敬。小说的最高明手法就是不著手法吧，此外兼顾了纪实和虚构的文风无可挑剔。我的泪点啊……
人们谈论的是战争，但士兵讲的故事永远无关战争。这个war story关乎更细腻的东西，滂沱中的腥臭，柔软的阳光和死亡，抚摸过一万次的信，宁静的夜，唱歌的山，湖心垂钓的船，星星一样的眼洞。个体的记忆感受被突出得既具象又缥缈，而这两者本就同一。虚构和事实被融成难舍难分的陶泥，共同指向深处的情感内核。发生过的事就像吃巧克力或粪便的感觉般无法讲述，像山间的歌声和鬼魂一样没有形体，只会在深夜扯着头发吵醒一切然后逃离。宏大的美好下有无尽细密微小的痛苦、幽默和悲哀。朝着它或它的反方向呐喊，结果都是无声无息——没有人会听或懂，能做的只有背着重负开着车一圈圈兜着湖转，等待最后毫无意义的烟花秀——听众瞪圆的眼睛都刻着永不回信的誓言。琳达就是篇创作谈，在梦里重见的并不比真实更假，Tim的故事都写给Timmy.
Best Literary Fiction I have ever read on Vietnam War. Powerful.
关于越战对美国那一代的影响，关于文字该不辜负痛苦
战争，负重，触目惊心。
战争使人疯狂
文字的力量
元小说，情感真挚
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