From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.
Black Swan tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen lake; of “nightcreeping” through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason’s search to replace his dead grandfather’s irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran Lps, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher’s recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons.
Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell’s subtlest and most effective achievement to date.
0 有用 Momo 2018-04-21 01:44:20
一开始觉得叙述太乱了,越看到后面越喜欢。非常细致地描写了一个青少年的成长经历,对拥有相似经历的人来说简直是暴击,比如怎么学会面对自我、如何重拾被欺凌的自信以及对遥不可及的父爱的渴望,我几乎以为这是我自己的故事。
0 有用 dm 2010-01-24 00:51:47
好看好看好看 now, can i marry this book? 故事发生在撒切尔任职期间的英国小镇。一个爱好文学喜欢写诗有点结巴的小男生,在学校不受待见,但是和镇上一个神秘老人结下了友谊。属于coming of age型的小说。幽默风趣,沁人心脾。