IM SURE I AM GOING TO READ IT AGAIN (AND AGAIN). it’s a very touching and beautifully written. some sentences are pure poetry. It’s very Irish, with the classical literary beauty in depiction and also observe the characters deeply. An example, the author ...
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Always it was the same, Furlong thought; always they carried mechanically on without pause, to the next job at hand. What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things? Might there lives be different or much the s...
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It’s a book that I wanted to read again the first time I finished it. And so I did. On the Christmas Eve of 1985, in the small Irish town, Sarah walked alongside Bill Furlong, through what feels like the longest way home. She vomited. She was out of breath...
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He thought of Mrs Wilson, of her daily kindness, of how she had corrected and encouraged him, of the small things she has said and done and had refused to do and say and what she must have known, the things which, when added up, amounted to a life. Had it n...
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Irene
Grove Press2021版
大河狸
Faber & Faber2021版
盔酱兮
Faber & Faber2021版
14 有用 Knulp 2024-04-16 17:56:19 上海
女性作家笔下的男性也颇具女性气质。弗隆是威尔逊夫人的投影，他心中的恐惧也许也在威尔逊夫人内心深处出现过。“失去一切是最容易的事”的恐怖咒语不止适用于弗隆，它在每一个想要挣脱“轨迹”的人的脑海中响起。但谁知道呢？也许这并不会真的发生。
6 有用 丛林宜歌 2023-07-07 23:26:03 四川
典型的爱尔兰故事，翻开即是扑面而来的寒冷、破碎、泥煤也暖不过来的伤痕累累，然而善良的本性根植于日常生活的纹理之中：烘烤蛋糕、准备给孩子们的礼物（爱尔兰直到2018年全民公投才放松了堕胎禁令，即便是这小小的成功，也是抹大拉洗衣房里成千上万女性的血泪、婴孩的尸骸，以及如本书中无数平民英雄的善举堆出来的）
5 有用 鶴景 2024-02-24 13:30:03 黑龙江
喜欢这个故事蕴含的力量，也喜欢吉根一如既往的细致入微和温情脉脉，仿佛一声温柔的呼唤，一如钟声：“不能互相帮助，活着还有什么意义？走过这么多年，活过几十个春秋，过完整整一辈子，一次也没有鼓足勇气去反对现状，却还要自称基督徒，面对镜子里的自己，这可能吗？”拍成短片应该会很好看。
2 有用 三小时 2024-09-18 06:06:13 海南
有点像《奇风岁月》给人的感觉，在平静的日常里人的思考有波涛汹涌的时候。沉默的共谋是一种巨大的恶，作者没有给人这样的抨击感，只是在平淡的叙事中让人相信弗隆是真实存在的，觉察日常与自我。
2 有用 坠入天空 2024-04-20 23:38:43 江苏
很“门罗类”的故事。small things like these，生活就是如此，沉重又轻盈。