"A fast-paced, gripping story set in a world of gruesome violence and perversity, where 'why?' is not a question and murder happens on a whim: but where a very faint ray of grace and hope lights up the landscape of salt and blood and ice. A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world that seems to exist at the limits of the human imaginatio...
"A fast-paced, gripping story set in a world of gruesome violence and perversity, where 'why?' is not a question and murder happens on a whim: but where a very faint ray of grace and hope lights up the landscape of salt and blood and ice. A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world that seems to exist at the limits of the human imagination." —Hilary Mantel
“This is a novel that takes us to the limits of flesh and blood. Utterly convincing and compelling, remorselessly vivid, and insidiously witty, The North Water is a startling achievement.” —Martin Amis
A nineteenth-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp, and highly original tale that grips like a thriller.
Behold the man: stinking, drunk, and brutal. Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaler bound for the rich hunting waters of the arctic circle. Also aboard for the first time is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money, and no better option than to sail as the ship's medic on this violent, filthy, and ill-fated voyage.
In India, during the Siege of Delhi, Sumner thought he had experienced the depths to which man can stoop. He had hoped to find temporary respite on the Volunteer, but rest proves impossible with Drax on board. The discovery of something evil in the hold rouses Sumner to action. And as the confrontation between the two men plays out amid the freezing darkness of an arctic winter, the fateful question arises: who will survive until spring?
With savage, unstoppable momentum and the blackest wit, The North Water weaves a superlative story of humanity under the most extreme conditions.
He senses a fresh need, small but insistent, arising inside hime, a new requirement aching to be met.
"I've been whoring all night and the whistle's dry." (Drax)
The Shetlander tries to kiss the woman and is rebuffed with an avaricious squeal.
The Shetlander is lanky and loose-limbed. His hair and beard are dark with seal grease and he reeks of the forecastle. The man begins to understand now what he must do -- to sense the nature of his current urges and the shape of their accomplishment.
"You can stick that shillelagh up your fucking arse." (Drax)
He is not by nature impatient or fidgety; he will wait when waiting is required. He finds a wall and sits down upon it; when he is hungry he sucks a stone.
He grasps on to the world like a dog biting into bone -- nothing is obscure to him, noth... (查看原文)
"As a rule there is not much doctoring to be done on a whaler, I find. When the men get sick they either get well again on their own or else they turn in on themselves and die" -- that is my experience at least. The portions don't make a great deal of difference." (Brownlee)
Sumner extents his hand and Brownlee briefly shakes it. Each man for a moment peers at the other one as if hoping for an answer to some secret question they are too alarmed or wary to ask out loud.
His cabin has the dimentions of an infant's mausoleum, and smells, already, before the voyage has even begun, sour and faintly fecal.
The world is enormous, he tells himself, and he is a tiny, unmemorable speck within it, easily lost and forgotten.
His plan is to dissolve, to dissipate, and only afterwards, some time later, ... (查看原文)
这本书大概从20%的地方开始吸引了我，就是那段Sumner不小心掉入冰海里，数次挣扎仍未能爬上冰块，最后slumps backwards into the dark water and away的那个结尾，像美剧的画面一样，让人住不住想看下去他到底有没有活下来。四天一口气读完了剩下的80%，每一章的结尾总有一个...
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龙骑士兰斯洛特
中信出版集团2019版
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中信出版集团2019版
0 有用 尤小澜 2020-02-14 16:31:27
也想看看真实的“鲁荣渔2682”号远洋杀戮惨案
0 有用 禾勿甫 2022-08-29 15:29:45 北京
其实还是更喜欢剧版改编的结尾……（P.S.剧版真的是完全还原了小说的质感）
0 有用 無 2021-08-20 17:18:23
一枪结果了Baxter，可真是便宜了他。
0 有用 U'si 2018-11-06 17:45:33
《北方海域》
0 有用 硫随 2021-01-09 16:28:01
硬汉文学，有极尽冷酷的美，totally hardcore，extremely exotic……The starry sky above me and the moral law within. 听说BBC买了版权已经在拍，不知道今年上半年能否等到成片出来呢。
0 有用 嵇澹 2023-02-09 13:25:44 浙江
读完原著就感觉andrew haign的剧本改编太偷懒了，台词和情节十之八九来自对于原文逐字逐句的照搬，除了少部分适应影视化叙事做了调整，可以称作贬义的字面意义的「忠于」原作。而剧版因为预算限制在删掉医生在捕鲸船上照顾北极熊幼崽的副线后，最后震撼人心的人熊对视一幕也相应地丧失了合成浓厚宿命意味的必要前情，仅剩符号寓言式的结语，非常可惜。但就剧版精湛的摄影构图调度等视觉语言而言，已经把文本天地不仁的... 读完原著就感觉andrew haign的剧本改编太偷懒了，台词和情节十之八九来自对于原文逐字逐句的照搬，除了少部分适应影视化叙事做了调整，可以称作贬义的字面意义的「忠于」原作。而剧版因为预算限制在删掉医生在捕鲸船上照顾北极熊幼崽的副线后，最后震撼人心的人熊对视一幕也相应地丧失了合成浓厚宿命意味的必要前情，仅剩符号寓言式的结语，非常可惜。但就剧版精湛的摄影构图调度等视觉语言而言，已经把文本天地不仁的叔本华悲剧精神咀嚼通透。 (展开)
0 有用 淡定哥走路带风 2022-10-23 07:36:47 德国
人性的恶让人颤抖
0 有用 禾勿甫 2022-08-29 15:29:45 北京
其实还是更喜欢剧版改编的结尾……（P.S.剧版真的是完全还原了小说的质感）
0 有用 super kindler 2022-08-10 15:08:01
美式英语随意到了已经是另一种语言的地步了，实在看不懂，更看不嗨......但毕竟能被BBC看上并翻拍，主观认为刚及格，吧。
0 有用 Iril 2022-04-20 09:02:08
结合英剧一起看的，通过影视剧的画面，更能体会到北极景观的壮观，以及种种残酷的事实