Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland's high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter and, at least outwardly, from his own childhood. The life he has built for himself, between his work in Dublin and his family's retreat by the sea at Cush, is distinguished by order and by achievement. When, like his beloved coastline, it begins to slip away, he is pulled sharply ...
Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland's high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter and, at least outwardly, from his own childhood. The life he has built for himself, between his work in Dublin and his family's retreat by the sea at Cush, is distinguished by order and by achievement. When, like his beloved coastline, it begins to slip away, he is pulled sharply into the present, and finds himself revisiting his past.
作者简介
· · · · · ·
Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland and lives in Dublin. He is one of Ireland's best known journalists. He is the author of The South, winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Prize. In 1995, he was awarded the Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Prize. He is also the author of The Heather Blazing and The Story of the Night.
... And there was another smell too which he remembered now: a smell of summer dresses, of female smell. The women who had taken care of him [Eamon Redmond] here. He could almost smell them now, vague hints of their presence, their strong lives, their voices which had been heard in this house for so many years. (查看原文)
... His grandfather's voice was softer and weaker than he remembered. After the first verse he stopped, and Eamon's grandmother took over, smiling at his grandfather as she did so. Her voice was much stronger, but she kept it low to match her husband's, and when she finished her verse, he started up again. For the last verse they joined together:
'I also dreamt which charmed me most
That you loved me still the same
That you loved me, loved me, still the same.'
He left the high notes to her, let her voice soar away from his, and she left space for him to join in again when the song was coming to an end. They all clapped when it was over. Eamon noticed that there were tears in his grandmother's eyes. (查看原文)
3 有用 苏夫佳 2015-09-05 19:31:51
回过头来看Toibin的第二本小说，后来作品中反复出现的孤寂、家庭、父/母角色的缺失、爱尔兰历史等元素已经成型。相较于处女作The South更加成熟，情节安排、结构布局跟第四部小说The Blackwater Lightship又很相似。Toibin在早期的这些作品中已经开始构建一个属于自己的Enniscorthy, Wexford，平常人物的悲苦哀乐都一一呈现在这个不断扩展的文学世界中。
0 有用 焦糖栗 2024-11-04 15:07:59 上海
看的第二本托宾的书，跟《布鲁克林》有很多相似的地方，爱尔兰元素很多，海岸，悬崖，街巷，仿佛回到了爱岛。主人公与亲密的人之间那种难以自察的距离感会让人思索，Carmel离去后的生活的感受很打动人。