书籍介绍
巴拉那河岸的一座小小的港口城市中,一场阴差阳错的绑架行动过后,所有当事人都陷入了两难的境地。无辜被绑的名誉领事,骑虎难下的游击队员,备受良心煎熬的英国医生,在情人与丈夫之间犹豫不决的年轻妻子,还有冷酷无情的政客……宗教教义、社会理想、人性底线,在这场阴差阳错的混乱中,他们各自究竟会做出怎样的抉择?
AI导读
核心看点
- 乌龙绑架案引发的人性两难抉择
- 探讨信仰、良知与爱的复杂纠葛
- 格林自称最满意的作品,叙事成熟
适合谁读
- 格雷厄姆·格林的忠实读者
- 对人性深度与道德困境感兴趣的读者
- 喜欢南美背景与政治惊悚题材的读者
读前提醒
- 部分读者反映行文冗长,需耐心
- 中译本逻辑可能别扭,建议对照原文
- 人物关系复杂,注意区分角色动机
读者共识
- 人物在混乱中完成自我救赎与升华
- 文学性与通俗性结合得较好的佳作
- 部分读者觉得节奏缓慢,阅读体验累
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成,不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "It took more than a few years of life in Buenos Aires before he began to realize that the existence of an exile did not make for simplicity—so many documents, so many visits to government offices. Simplicity belonged by right to those who were native-born, those who could take the conditions of life"
- "在我还是个年轻神父的时候,我常常想要弄清楚那些男男女女的动机是什么,想要知道他们受到的诱惑和迷惑是什么,可是没多长时间我就再也不那么做了。原因是我找不到直截了当的答案。没有哪个人就那么简单,能让我理解。最后我只能说:“三呼圣父,三呼圣母,带着宁静的心去吧。”"
- "我们已经把耶和华融进了我们的血液,这是没有办法的事。经过了数百年的历程后,耶和华活到了我们身心深处不见天日的黑暗里,像是肠子里的虫子。"
- "how easily sexual attention can be caught by something superficial, like a birth-mark in an unusual position."
- "There was something clinical in a brothel which appealed to Doctor Plarr. It was as though he were watching a surgeon accompanying a new patient to the operating theatre - the previous operation had been successful and was already out of mind. Only in Television dramas did emotions of love, anxiety "
- "In a real love affair, he thought, you are interested in a woman because she is someone distinct from yourself; then bit by bit she adapts herself to you, she picks up your habits, your ideas, even your turns of phrase, she becomes part of you, and then what interest remains? One cannot love oneself"
- "Eating food side by side seemed more intimate to Doc Plarr than the sexual act. ... ... it opened an unexpected vista into quite another sort of life, a domestic life equally strange to both of them. It was as though he had taken a boat down one of the small tributaries of the Parana and suddenly fo"
- "of course i was acting. I always try to do what you like. I always try to say what you like. Yes. Just like at Senora Sanchez. Why not? You have your machismo too." He half believed her. He wanted to believe her. If she were speaking the truth there might be something still to discover, the game was"
作者简介
格雷厄姆·格林(Graham Greene,1904-1991),英国著名作家、剧作家、文学评论家。一生获得21次诺贝尔文学奖提名(但终未获奖),被誉为诺贝尔文学奖评选史上“最大的输家”。他的作品探讨了当今世界充满矛盾的政治和道德问题,将通俗文学和严肃文学有机的结合在一起,获得了广泛好评。