From the acclaimed author of The Rehearsal comes a novel about a young woman on trial for murder in nineteenth-century New Zealand.
On a blustery January day, a prostitute is arrested. In the midst of the 1866 gold rush on the coast of New Zealand, this might have gone unnoticed. But three notable events occur on that same day: a luckless drunk dies, a wealthy man vanishes, and...
From the acclaimed author of The Rehearsal comes a novel about a young woman on trial for murder in nineteenth-century New Zealand.
On a blustery January day, a prostitute is arrested. In the midst of the 1866 gold rush on the coast of New Zealand, this might have gone unnoticed. But three notable events occur on that same day: a luckless drunk dies, a wealthy man vanishes, and a ship's captain of ill repute cancels all of his business and weighs anchor, as if making an escape. Anna Wetherell, the prostitute in question, is connected to all three men.
This sequence of apparently coincidental events provokes a secret council of powerful townsmen to investigate. But they are interrupted by the arrival of a stranger: young Walter Moody, who has a secret of his own...
THE LUMINARIES is an intricately crafted feat of storytelling, a mystery that reveals the ways our interconnected lives reshape our destinies.
Born in Canada and raised in New Zealand, Eleanor Catton, 27, completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2007 and won the Adam Prize in Creative Writing for her first novel, The Rehearsal, which was also long-listed for the Orange Prize and short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop as the recipient of the 2008 Glenn Sc...
Born in Canada and raised in New Zealand, Eleanor Catton, 27, completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2007 and won the Adam Prize in Creative Writing for her first novel, The Rehearsal, which was also long-listed for the Orange Prize and short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop as the recipient of the 2008 Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship. She lives in New Zealand.
The twelve men congregated in the smoking room of the Crown Hotel gave the impression of a party accidentally met. From the variety of their comportment and dress—frock coats, tailcoats, Norfolk jackets with buttons of horn, yellow moleskin, cambric, and twill—they might have been twelve strangers on a railway car, each bound for a separate quarter of a city that possessed fog and tides enough to divide them; indeed, the studied isolation of each man as he pored over his paper, or leaned forward to tap his ashes into the grate, or placed the splay of his hand upon the baize to take his shot at billiards, conspired to form the very type of bodily silence that occurs, late in the evening, on a public railway—deadened here not by the slur and clunk of the coaches, but by the fat clatter of th... (查看原文)
In 2011, former MI5 chief, Dame Stella Rimington, stirred a controversy, when as the chair of the Booker Prize jury, she stressed upon readability as one of the driving criteria for their judgement. Another judge clarified that the plot has to zip along. Th...
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阿巴厮
译林出版社2018版
Hermione
Back Bay Books2014版
阿萌
Blind Assassin
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译林出版社2018版
0 有用 Eric 2014-02-08 23:49:55
实在没觉出啥好来
0 有用 WJ 2014-12-17 08:40:19
19世纪新西兰淘金潮背景的悬疑故事。对于喜欢悬疑故事的读者来说，不推荐！冗长，重复已知内容不止一遍，花里胡哨太多。
0 有用 大林煎饼 2023-08-28 08:12:58 美国
用占星术统筹人物际遇，结构很可爱。但正因为结构复杂、人物庞杂，作者所有的功力都用在处理清楚因果关系上了，结果是枝蔓交缠的情节交代清楚了，却没讲出更有趣的东西来。和去年得布克奖的小说一样，好读且不落俗套，但也仅止步于此，只能算是精彩的通俗小说。
1 有用 DieselNGas 2021-08-14 18:29:09
完全没有必要这么写这么多页， 但是书封太好看了
0 有用 奶哥 2016-09-21 11:17:56
感觉这么多年英语白学了...
0 有用 oayiyus 2023-09-27 21:52:32 北京
补登
0 有用 大林煎饼 2023-08-28 08:12:58 美国
用占星术统筹人物际遇，结构很可爱。但正因为结构复杂、人物庞杂，作者所有的功力都用在处理清楚因果关系上了，结果是枝蔓交缠的情节交代清楚了，却没讲出更有趣的东西来。和去年得布克奖的小说一样，好读且不落俗套，但也仅止步于此，只能算是精彩的通俗小说。
0 有用 沧浪之江 2023-02-03 16:51:20 广东
是我最喜欢的格式工整天体运动融入文学，至于作品情节长度之类的，等一份中译本或者我真的无聊到愿意读完英文原著吧。
0 有用 土卫九 2021-10-02 15:04:42
Only took like 7 years, 3 tries, a lockdown and a broken ankle lol.
1 有用 DieselNGas 2021-08-14 18:29:09
完全没有必要这么写这么多页， 但是书封太好看了