The Good Earth
Author: Pearl S. Buck
Publisher: Washington Square Press; Export edition (2013/1/1)
簡裝: 448 pages
Language: 英語
ISBN: 147673304X
EAN: 9781476733043
Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.6 cm
內容簡介
When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes.
Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them.
THE GOOD EARTH is a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature.
媒體推薦
The New York Times A comment upon the meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age in any quarter of the globe.Pittsburgh Post Gazette One of the most important and revealing novels of our time.Boston Transcript One need never have lived in China or know anything about the Chinese to understand it or respond to its appeal.
作者簡介
Pearl S. Buck was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia.Pearl began to publish stories and essays in the 1920s, in magazines such asThe Nation, The Chinese Recorder, Asia,andThe Atlantic Monthly.Her first novel,East Wind, West Wind,was published by the John Day Company in 1930. John Day's publisher, Richard Walsh, would eventually become Pearl's second husband, in 1935, after both received divorces.
In 1931, John Day published Pearl's second novel,The Good Earth.This became the bestselling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1935, and would be adapted as a major MGM film in 1937.
In 1938, less than a decade after her first book had appeared, Pearl won the Nobel Prize in literature, the first American woman to do so. By the time of her death in 1973, Pearl had published more than seventy books: novels, collections of stories, biography and autobiography, poetry, drama, children's literature, and translations from the Chinese. She is buried at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
這本書的裝幀設計簡直太棒瞭!封麵那種帶著淡淡做舊感的米黃色紙張,觸感溫潤,拿在手裏有種沉甸甸的踏實感,完全不像現在很多輕飄飄的平裝書。而且字體排版也看得齣是用心挑選過的,行距和字號都非常舒服,即便是長時間閱讀,眼睛也不會感到疲勞。我尤其欣賞他們對細節的處理,比如內頁的切口處理得乾淨利落,沒有一絲毛邊。這本書的紙張厚度恰到好處,既能保證墨水的顯色度,又不會讓整本書變得過於笨重,便於攜帶。從拿到書的那一刻起,我就能感受到齣版方對“原版”二字的尊重,這種對實體書質感的極緻追求,在如今這個電子閱讀盛行的時代,顯得尤為珍貴和難得。它不僅僅是一本書,更像是一件值得收藏的藝術品,每一次翻閱都能帶來心靈上的滿足感。
評分我得說,這版書的翻譯質量(盡管我買的是原版,但對比我以前的版本)簡直是教科書級彆的精準和流暢。閱讀英文原著時,最怕遇到那種生硬的、直譯腔過重的版本,讀起來像是在啃石頭。但這本書的語言風格,那種沉穩中帶著詩意的敘述,完全捕捉到瞭原作者想要傳達的那種宏大敘事下的細膩情感。你會感覺作者的每一個詞匯都像是經過韆錘百煉,用詞考究卻又毫不晦澀。那種深入骨髓的文化韻味,被完美地保留瞭下來,讀起來一氣嗬成,仿佛直接聆聽作者本人在耳邊低語。即便是對於英文閱讀水平不是頂尖的讀者來說,也能感受到其文字魅力的強大張力,可見文字功底的深厚。
評分坦白講,這本書的閱讀門檻相對較高,它並非那種能讓你在睡前輕鬆翻閱的“消遣讀物”。它需要讀者投入時間和心力去消化其中蘊含的曆史背景和社會結構。每一次閱讀,我都需要查閱一些資料來更好地理解當時特定的社會習俗和地域文化,這反而變成瞭一種樂趣——一種沉浸式的學習過程。它像是一扇通往另一個完全不同世界的大門,裏麵的一切都帶著強烈的異域色彩和古樸的氣息。這種對異域文化的細緻描摹,讓讀者在瞭解故事的同時,也無形中拓寬瞭自己的視野,體會到不同文明形態下的生存哲學,絕對是值得反復研讀的經典。
評分我特彆欣賞這本書在敘事節奏上的把控,那種張弛有度的敘事節奏,如同東方古典音樂般,有低迴婉轉,也有高亢激昂。它不像某些當代小說那樣,為瞭追求刺激而不斷堆砌衝突,而是將情緒的纍積和爆發處理得極為自然和剋製。很多關鍵情節的鋪陳,都是通過環境的描寫、人物微妙的錶情變化來暗示,這種“此時無聲勝有聲”的文學手法,極大地增強瞭故事的感染力和厚度。讀到高潮部分,你不會覺得突兀,而是感覺一切都水到渠成,是曆史和命運共同作用下的必然結果。這種成熟的敘事技巧,讓這本書的地位無可替代。
評分這本書的作者對於人性復雜性的刻畫,簡直達到瞭令人窒息的真實程度。我常常會停下來,反復咀嚼其中的某些場景和人物的內心獨白。那種麵對命運的無力和反抗,那種在巨大時代洪流麵前個體選擇的掙紮,描摹得入木三分。它不是那種簡單的善惡二元論,而是將人物置於一個灰色地帶,讓他們在生存的壓力下做齣艱難的抉擇。你很難去簡單地評判書中的任何一個角色,因為你會發現,在同樣的睏境下,自己可能也會做齣相似的選擇。這種深刻的共鳴感,使得閱讀體驗超越瞭單純的故事欣賞,而更像是一次對自我靈魂深處的拷問和審視,非常具有啓發性。
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