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书籍介绍
一个白发老人和一个印第安女孩，一段横穿得州的旅程，看似简单，真正击中人的却是两者之间悄然生长的东西。基德上尉是个“信息传递者”，在新闻尚属稀罕品的年代替城镇居民朗读远方世界的消息；被抛弃的印第安女孩蝉则一路沉默、试图逃脱，宁可自我饿毙也不愿落入“亲眷”的牢笼。他们彼此陌生，却在相互辨认——她不再是被所有人抛弃的孩子，而是一颗有了坐标的星星。这本书最耐人寻味之处，不在情节的跌宕起伏，而在它逼问：当一个人被两种文化同时抛弃，该如何安放自己？它不靠惊险取胜，而靠诗意的语言、扎实的地理历史细节，以及那种“活着或许就是为了把消息送到”的朴素信念打动读者。适合愿意慢下来、在意人心而非故事的读者。
作者简介
※作者简介※
【美】波莱特•吉尔斯
Paulette Jiles
美国诗人、作家，加拿大诗歌总督奖获得者。曾在加拿大生活多年，为加拿大广播公司工作，用10年时间帮助安大略省和魁北克省北部的土著居民建立当地语言和调频电台，并学会了当地土著语言。
吉尔斯深受独立书商喜爱，她善于撰写关于美国内战时期的历史小说，尤其关于得州，被亲切地称为“真正的得州人”。她的作品《敌人女人》（Enemy Women）获罗杰斯作家信托小说奖，和另一著作《暴风雨》（Stormy Weather）均登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜。2016年，《来自世界的消息》（News of the World）入围美国国家图书奖，并入选《华盛顿邮报》年度十佳好书。
吉尔斯于1991年搬到圣安东尼奥。目前住在得州乌托邦附近的一个36英亩的农场里，与她心爱的马为伴。
※译者简介※
何静芝，毕业于上海交通大学，译有《生命不息》《暗笑》《鲸鱼之歌》等作品。
AI导读
核心看点
- 老派信使护送印第安女孩回家，展现西部荒原的残酷与温情。
- 以朗读报纸为线索，探讨信息、故事与人类精神慰藉的深层联系。
- 诗意笔触描绘得州风景，刻画跨越种族与年龄的救赎与勇气。
读者共识
- 文字优美如诗，充满想象力，是兼具文学性与可读性的西部佳作。
- 相比电影，原著更侧重内心挖掘与历史细节，情感更为深沉内敛。
- “勇气是最后一道防线”引发共鸣，故事温暖治愈，触动人心。
精彩摘录
- "And then he had come to think that what people needed, at bottom, was not only information but tales of the remote, the mysterious, dressed up as hard information. And he, like a runner, immobile in his smeared printing apron bringing it to them. Then the listeners would for a small space of time dr"
- "She carried her shoes around her neck with the laces tied together and walked in the felting of wet leaves. She would find out where they were going and then either escape or starve herself to death. It was not worth being alive when one was alone among aliens. People who would kill you, who had kil"
- "She had none of the gestures or expressions of white people. White people’s faces were mobile and open. They were unguarded. They flung their hands about, they slanted and leaned on things, tossed their heads and their hats. Her faultless silence made her seem strangely not present. She had the carr"
- "You can come out now, Johanna. You can reappear like the flowers in May. They aren’t going to slap you in leg irons and throw you into a cell."
- "Don’t stick a knife in my back. Don’t let me hear the dreaded click of a cocked revolver hammer. Let us flounder on through life here as best we might. Kep-dun!"
- "......then lifted her head to look at the girl; so alone, twice captured, carried away on the flood of the world. Doris’s eyes burned suddenly with tears and she lifted the back of her hand to her eyes. But I think not. The doll is like herself, not real and not not-real. I make myself understood I "
- "He stewed silently at the imposition of it all. He must have been out of his mind. Senile dementia. But he had promised. I’ll do it, he thought. I will get her back to her relatives if I never cock another gun. He read through the Boston paper, staring mindlessly at advertisements for cures and fals"
- "At the age he had attained with his life span short before him he had begun to look upon the human world with the indifference of a condemned man. Who cares for your fashions and your wars and your causes? I will shortly be gone and I have seen many fashions come and go and many causes so passionate"
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用户评论
很普通。
“信息并非人类的深层需要。故事才是。说到底，人们想看的只是遥远的故事。读故事的人有片刻游离，进入一个能够治愈我们的神奇世界。”
吉尔斯说：如果你观察人类的思维，它是一系列的层次——不，不是一系列的层次。它就像花上的花瓣，每一片都是必要的。当代世界是必要的——你必须照顾你的孩子。你得去工作。你必须有薪水。你还必须进入想象的世界。这就是我认为我们真正缺乏的。头脑也需要各种各样的东西，但我认为在当今世界，我们缺少了一个非常重要的元素，那就是想象力。这或许就是基德上尉想要努力带领他的听众去到的地方吧——一个想象力构建的世界。
最近补了好几本大方（没补完的更多），这本是最喜欢的一本了。对这段背景了解非常少，到后半部分才更顺利些。也算是填补了一部分空白。
和电影相比其实没多太多有用的细节 情节反而不如电影改编的精彩 甚至后来上尉是直接带人跑路连招呼都没打OTZ 就是结尾补充了一些后来上尉的家人回来了乔安娜被他正式收养跟了他的姓 之后和某个他们在路上曾经见过但我已经没什么印象了的人结婚并搬走了 这结尾感觉没太大必要 总之总体观感不如电影
极其优美的读物，本人特别热爱美国西部的故事，波澜壮阔，充满血腥与文明的征服。本文的故事充满柔情，让我想到了电影《大地惊雷》，就像漫长的人生，有着悠长又怅然若失的结局
校图书馆/有些理想化的公路文学。封校第一天开始读，还是蛮庆幸虽然肉体被困在无聊的境界，但也算是灵魂出窍，随着上校与乔安娜从威瀑县一路行至卡斯特罗维尔，目睹了风光无数。与其说是惊心动魄的护送记，更像是一场勇气与爱交错的探索之旅。/“马粮，面粉，子弹，香皂，牛肉，蜡烛，信仰，希望，慈悲”
很温暖的故事
特定历史下的人生变迁
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