书籍介绍
一个没有痛苦、没有战争、衣食无忧的世界，听起来像天堂，可当主角乔纳思被赋予“记忆传授人”的身份，他才发现这个乌托邦的代价是被剥夺了颜色、阳光、痛苦，以及爱。这本书最动人的地方，恰恰是它用儿童文学的笔调，讲了一个极其沉重的哲学命题：如果可以选择，你愿意用痛苦换取永恒的安宁吗？读者反复讨论的，不是悬疑情节，而是那个刺问——失去了悲伤，是否也失去了深沉的欢乐？失去了痛苦，是否也失去了真正活着的感觉？它像柏拉图洞穴里那个逃出去的人，独自记住了真实，却要向仍困在墙影里的所有人复述。它适合那些愿意被一个问题困住的读者，而不是只想要一个爽利结局的人。
作者简介
洛伊丝·劳里，1937年3月出生于夏威夷，父亲在军中担任牙医，他们一家人也随着军队迁移世界各地。二次大战期间，她住在外祖父母位于宾州的老家，十一岁到上高中之前，则在日本度过。后来她进布朗大学就读，但只修完两年课程便结婚了，直到生完四个孩子后才重拾学业，从南缅因大学毕业。洛伊丝·劳里的写作生涯起步较晚，四十岁时才尝试完成小时候的梦想——当一名作家。结果却一鸣惊人，如今她不但是世界知名的作家，还获得两次纽伯瑞金牌奖的肯定。除了写作儿童小说、短篇故事，她也撰写评论、专业的论文。
AI导读
核心看点
- 反乌托邦设定，探讨无痛社会代价
- 少年觉醒，揭开完美社区谎言真相
- 纽伯瑞金奖作品，引发深度思考
读者共识
- 设定精巧，被誉为儿童版一九八四
- 结局评价两极，有人嫌虎头蛇尾
- 深刻揭示痛苦与智慧并存真理
精彩摘录
- "He remembered when hiss family received lily, the day she was named, the day that she had become a one."
- "A committee was studying the idea. When something went to a committee for study, the people always joked about it. Rules were very hard to change. Sometimes, if it was a very important rule, it would have to go, eventually, to The Receiver for a decision. The Receiver was the most important Elder."
- ""I think newchildren are so cute," Lily sighed. "I hope I get assigned to be a Birthmother." "Lily!" Mother spoke very sharply. "Don't say that. There's very little honor in that Assignment." "Three years," Mother told her firmly. "Three births, and that's all. After that they are Laborers for the r"
- "There was never any confortable ay to mention or discuss one's success without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn't mean to. It was a minor rule, rather like rudeness, punishable only by gentle chastisement."
- "It was the sort of thing one didn't ask a friend about because it might have fallen into that uncomfortable category of "being different." Asher took a pill each morning; Jonas did not. Always better, less rude, to talk about things that were the same."
- "The entire community had performed the Ceremony of Loss together, murmuring the neme Caleb throughout and entire day, less and less frequently, fofter in volume, as the long and somber day went on, so that the little Four seemed to fade away gradually from everyone's consciousness. Now, at this spec"
- ""Asher," she said, "Thank you for your childhood.""
- "The Giver sighed. "You're right," he said. "But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and so honored. They selected me---and you---to lift that burden from themselves.""
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