白牙

出版时间

2010-05-01

ISBN

9787560095943

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍
这是一部把伦敦西北角写成当代世界缩影的小说。作者以两个移民家庭为切口,让中年失婚、靠掷硬币做决定的白人阿吉,与孟加拉裔萨玛德并肩而立,再用他们的孩子——一个沦为恐怖分子、一个成为律师——将
作者简介
扎迪•史密斯1975年生于英国伦敦西北区,毕业于剑桥大学国王学院。2000年,她凭借处女作《白牙》震惊文坛,之后陆续发表了《签名收藏家》《美》《西北》《摇摆时光》《使馆楼》等作品。2003年,她被权威文学杂志《格兰塔》选为“20位最佳青年作家”之一。她迄今三次入围布克奖,并斩获诸多文学奖项,多次入选《纽约书评》《时报》《出版人周刊》《洛杉矶时报》等权威书评版年度十佳图书。过去二十年里,她凭借独特的个人风格,日益奠定了自己“英国青年一代作家代表”的地位。此外,她始终热心公众议题,在小说创作以外,还发表了大量评论性文章,全方位地展现了她多元的文化洞见。
AI导读
核心看点
  • 扎迪·史密斯24岁处女作,被誉为新千年杰作。
  • 聚焦伦敦移民家庭,探讨身份认同与文化冲突。
  • 笔法幽默犀利,涵盖种族、信仰与代际矛盾。
读者共识
  • 作者才华横溢,文字灵动,开头惊艳世人。
  • 前半部备受赞誉,后半部结构松散争议大。
  • 深刻揭示移民困境,但部分情节显得刻意。
精彩摘录
  • "疾病不过是基因组发生了逻辑混乱而已,正如资本主义只不过是因为社会动物发生了逻辑混乱"
  • "每个时刻都发生两次:体内和体外,内外时刻是两种不同的历史。"
  • "This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love."
  • "Six weeks later they were married."
  • "Clara's inexplicable dedication to Ryan Topps knew no bounds. It transcended his bad looks, tedious personality, and unsightly personal habits. Essentially, it transcended Ryan, for whatever Hortense claimed, Clara was a teenage girl like any other; the object of her passion was only an accessory to"
  • "She was not to know that women never stayed as daylight in Archie's life; that somewhere in him he didn't like them, he didn't trust them, and he was able to love them only if they wear haloes."
  • "No white knight, then, this Archibald Jones. No aims, no hopes, no ambitions. A man whose greatest pleasures were English breakfasts and DIY. A dull man. An old man. And yet...good. He was a good man. And good might not amount to much, good might not light up a life, but it is something. She spotted"
  • "The heat prompted rivulets of sweat to spring out all over his body, seeping through the turtleneck to the mohair and giving off an unmistakable odor of damp dog. Clara, of course, was all cat. She wore a long brown woollen Jeff Banks dress and a perfect set of false teeth; the dress was backless, t"
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