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唐娜的这部小说《金翅雀》自从出版以来,叫座又叫好,不仅还上了《纽约时报》等重要媒体的好书榜,长时间盘踞各大畅销书榜,现又在2014年4月15号拿下普利策小说奖。普利策委员会称,《
金翅雀》是‘一部关于青春期的美文小说,人物刻画精致,讲述了一个伤心男孩与一小幅名画之间的纠葛'。
中文版有望2014年底或2015年初出版。
内容简介
Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity.
It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch is a novel of shocking narrative energy and power. It combines unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and breathtaking suspense, while plumbing with a philosopher's calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art. It is a beautiful, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.
作者简介
Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages.
唐娜·塔特,美国当代著名女作家。唐娜自1992年起,出道20多年,只写了3部长篇小说。《校园秘史》与《小友》间隔10年,震惊文坛。又用了11年写完Goldfinch《金翅雀》,凭此书获得普利策奖。
唐娜·塔特发表于1992年的处女作《校园秘史》,2007年曾在中国出版,只在文学圈内引起少量关注。所以对唐娜·塔特,大多数中国读者并不熟悉。
唐娜出道20多年,只写了3部长篇小说。1992年,《校园秘史》震惊文坛,当时唐娜才28岁。《校园秘史》之后是长达10年的沉寂,唐娜一度被认为是那么多文学流星中的一颗,结果她在2002年以《小友》回来了,然后是《金翅雀》。
唐娜至今未婚,她曾说,“我所认知的地狱,即是拥挤和沉重的家庭生活。有些人喜欢家庭生活。但那对我来说是最恐怖的噩梦。”她平时跟外界联系不多,也不善言辞,拒绝大部分采访。对图书界的论坛、朗读会和颁奖都没有兴趣。得到获普利策奖的消息后,唐娜说:“非常高兴,非常荣幸‘获得人生中第一个重要文学奖’,也非常惊讶。”
精彩书评
"A glorious novel that pulls together all her remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading."
——Michiko Kakutani New York Times
"The Goldfinch is a triumph...Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."
——Stephen King New York Times
"An astonishing achievement... if anyone has lost their love of storytelling, The Goldfinch will most certainly return it to them. The last few pages of the novel take all the serious, big, complicated ideas beneath the surface and hold them up to the light."
—— Guardian
"A modern epic and an old-fashioned pilgrimage...Dickens with guns, Dostoevsky with pills, Tolstoy with antiques. And if it doesn't gain Tartt entry to the mostly boys' club that is The Great American Novel, to drink with life-members John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth et al, then we should close down the joint and open up another for the Great Global Novel - for that is what this is."
——Alex O’Connell The Times
"Lavish and lush in décor and span...highly wrought and romantic as her numerous admirers will hope."
——Book of the Week, Boyd Tonkin Independent
精彩书摘
Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and an absent father, miraculously survives a catastrophe that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Theo is tormented by longing for his mother and down the years he clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. Dazzling. A glorious, Dickensian novel that pulls together all Tartt's remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Mysterious and mercurial, The Goldfinch reveals itself as a rare bird: a highbrow fable and a page-turner' Anthony Quinn, Mail on Sunday An astonishing achievement. If anyone has lost their love of storytelling this will most certainly return it to them' Kamila Shamsie, Guardian A triumph.
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