She has the keys to their apartment. She knows everything. She has embedded herself so deeply in their lives that it now seems impossible to remove her.
When Myriam decides to return to work as a lawyer after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their son and daughter. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who ...
She has the keys to their apartment. She knows everything. She has embedded herself so deeply in their lives that it now seems impossible to remove her.
When Myriam decides to return to work as a lawyer after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their son and daughter. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family’s chic Paris apartment, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment, and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau. Building tension with every page, The Perfect Nanny is a compulsive, riveting, bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity, motherhood, and madness—and the American debut of an immensely talented writer.
Leila Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt, which she won for The Perfect Nanny. Her first novel, Adèle, won the La Mamounia Prize for the best book by a Moroccan author written in French. A journalist and frequent commentator on women’s and human rights, Slimani is French president Emmanuel Macron’s personal represen...
Leila Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt, which she won for The Perfect Nanny. Her first novel, Adèle, won the La Mamounia Prize for the best book by a Moroccan author written in French. A journalist and frequent commentator on women’s and human rights, Slimani is French president Emmanuel Macron’s personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture and was ranked #2 on Vanity Fair France’s annual list of The Fifty Most Influential French People in the World. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she now lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.
对于心理的刻画以及开篇就说出了悲伤的结局,真的特别像伍绮诗(Celeste Ng)的「无声告白( Everything I never told you)」,不过整体文风以及故事结构而言,本书是不太合口的,我更喜欢「无声告白」那种风格
两个故事其实都在说,谁也不知道对方真正在想什么,导致了悲剧的发生,两个故事也都让我这样觉得:
爱一直持续,可是爱无法解决一切问题,耐心才是日常生活中最重要的东西...对于心理的刻画以及开篇就说出了悲伤的结局,真的特别像伍绮诗(Celeste Ng)的「无声告白( Everything I never told you)」,不过整体文风以及故事结构而言,本书是不太合口的,我更喜欢「无声告白」那种风格
两个故事其实都在说,谁也不知道对方真正在想什么,导致了悲剧的发生,两个故事也都让我这样觉得:
爱一直持续,可是爱无法解决一切问题,耐心才是日常生活中最重要的东西,可是它最难坚持也最容易被耗尽,在可以真的完全调整心态之前,我觉得隔绝噪音很重要
先看一章英译本然后再看一章中译本,这种感觉也蛮有意思,不过两个译本还是有着一些意思上的不同之处,不管怎样,我学会了一个词:
enigmatic,谜一般的,不可解的(展开)
全书的开头就提到,婴儿死了。"The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds." 不得不说,《lullaby》是继《无声告白》后我看过的第二个让我浑身难受的故事,从头到尾都透露着现实深渊的真实而又无法自抑的痛苦。 作者根据多年前纽约一起保姆杀害雇主家两个孩子的事件改编,...
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对于心理的刻画以及开篇就说出了悲伤的结局,真的特别像伍绮诗(Celeste Ng)的「无声告白( Everything I never told you)」,不过整体文风以及故事结构而言,本书是不太合口的,我更喜欢「无声告白」那种风格 两个故事其实都在说,谁也不知道对方真正在想什么,导致了悲剧的发生,两个故事也都让我这样觉得: 爱一直持续,可是爱无法解决一切问题,耐心才是日常生活中最重要的东西... 对于心理的刻画以及开篇就说出了悲伤的结局,真的特别像伍绮诗(Celeste Ng)的「无声告白( Everything I never told you)」,不过整体文风以及故事结构而言,本书是不太合口的,我更喜欢「无声告白」那种风格 两个故事其实都在说,谁也不知道对方真正在想什么,导致了悲剧的发生,两个故事也都让我这样觉得: 爱一直持续,可是爱无法解决一切问题,耐心才是日常生活中最重要的东西,可是它最难坚持也最容易被耗尽,在可以真的完全调整心态之前,我觉得隔绝噪音很重要 先看一章英译本然后再看一章中译本,这种感觉也蛮有意思,不过两个译本还是有着一些意思上的不同之处,不管怎样,我学会了一个词: enigmatic,谜一般的,不可解的 (展开)