When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison.
But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, and now, as Sarah Vaughan sings through the speakers, he struggles to contro...
When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison.
But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, and now, as Sarah Vaughan sings through the speakers, he struggles to control everything the sound brings with it.
In Kazuo Ishiguro's hands, a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting.
真的会有男人爱你苍老的面容？
I have to admit, I was taken aback at how much she‘d age. It wasn't just that she'd got significantly heavier since my last visit: her face, once so effortlessly graceful, was now distinctly bulldoggy, with a displeased set to the mouth. (查看原文)
Faber Stories(共30册)，
这套丛书还有
《Daughters of Passion》《The Victim: Faber Stories》《Three Types of Solitude》《Fairy Tales》《Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom》
等
。
无法言说的语言灵气。
全文有两处最爱的文字。一是Emily形容她和Charlie当前关系的处境，“You know, Raymond, when you’re at a party, at a dance. And it’s maybe a slow dance, and you’re with the person you really want to be with, and the rest...无法言说的语言灵气。
全文有两处最爱的文字。一是Emily形容她和Charlie当前关系的处境，“You know, Raymond, when you’re at a party, at a dance. And it’s maybe a slow dance, and you’re with the person you really want to be with, and the rest of the room’s supposed to vanish. But somehow it doesn’t…It just doesn’t”。
二是结尾的句子“…And we kept dancing under the starlit sky”，有一种经历疯狂回归到最平静的状态的感觉。(展开)
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1 有用 Coppelia 2023-10-16 22:33:42 广东
7/10 腹黑小品。喜欢跳舞那里，流畅，温馨。似乎在讲焦头烂额又荒唐的日常里保有的一丝秩序，可爱的对照。
0 有用 _kevvv 2020-10-19 17:02:32
因为看到那篇分析Ray或许是gay，喜欢Charlie的书评，所以重又翻出来看了一遍。不得不讲那个思路还蛮有趣，但是石黑一雄应该不会为了发扬自己不可靠叙事的长处而牺牲太多流畅性吧。不过还是要感叹他好会写的，拿诺奖前只看过远山淡影无可慰藉和长日将尽，觉得就还行吧。后来想着再给一次机会（好大的口气），买了《小夜曲》，于是就服气了。
0 有用 拉维克 2020-10-17 20:27:29
非常好笑，但是设计感太强，最后几页倒是饱含情愫，是石黑一雄的本色。这个故事是从《小夜曲》里抽出来的，如果都是这个水准的话倒很庆幸以前没有买😂，不是不好，就是不太感冒，感觉还不如村上的短篇写得好。
0 有用 Pepsi 2022-01-20 13:19:25
Ray&Charlie那几通电话太搞笑了……
2 有用 螺線圓形 2022-11-19 15:44:57 上海
无法言说的语言灵气。 全文有两处最爱的文字。一是Emily形容她和Charlie当前关系的处境，“You know, Raymond, when you’re at a party, at a dance. And it’s maybe a slow dance, and you’re with the person you really want to be with, and the rest... 无法言说的语言灵气。 全文有两处最爱的文字。一是Emily形容她和Charlie当前关系的处境，“You know, Raymond, when you’re at a party, at a dance. And it’s maybe a slow dance, and you’re with the person you really want to be with, and the rest of the room’s supposed to vanish. But somehow it doesn’t…It just doesn’t”。 二是结尾的句子“…And we kept dancing under the starlit sky”，有一种经历疯狂回归到最平静的状态的感觉。 (展开)