2018夏季英文书单:好读又经典,还能清凉一夏
沪江2018-06-26 11:18
06、Brother
兄弟
作者:David Chariandy
☉ 关键词:亲情、催泪小说
☉ 适合人群:本书文字较浅显,适合大部分人阅读。
☉ 推荐语:
In this time of gross American injustice, the immigrant tearjerker comes from an unexpected place.
在美国严重不公的当下,这部关于移民的催人泪下的作品是以一个非常出人意料的地区为出发点的。
Chariandy locates his novel in a darker corner of our supposedly enlightened neighbor to the north — the Toronto neighborhood of Scarborough. Wide-eyed Michael and his cynical brother Francis are taught by their Trinidadian mother to strive against the odds, even as her own state belies her cherished ideals.
查瑞安迪把小说设定在所谓开明的北方邻居——士嘉堡多伦多社区的一个阴暗地区。天真的迈克尔和他玩世不恭的兄弟弗朗西斯,被来自特立尼达的母亲教导要与逆境抗争,即便她自己的国家辜负了她所珍视的理想。
07、The Third Hotel
第三家旅馆
作者:Laura van den Berg
☉ 关键词:灵异、爱情故事
☉ 适合人群:喜欢灵异风格的小伙伴一定要看,这本就是披着灵异外表的言情小说。
☉ 推荐语:
A woman goes to a Cuban horror-film festival and lives out her own ghost story in this haunting novel.
在这部令人难以忘怀的小说中,一名女子去参加了一场古巴恐怖片电影节并亲身经历了一场灵异事件。
Recently widowed, Claire believes she sees her husband standing right there in the middle of Havana. The dreamlike state in which she pursues him and the past memories she recalls and relives are a stunning portrait of a marriage and what remains furiously alive even after death.
最近丧偶的克莱尔认为她看到了她的丈夫站在哈瓦那市的中心。作者以一种极具吸引力的方式讲述了她在这个梦幻般的国家寻找他的经历以及她对过去的回忆,描绘了一场婚姻以及甚至在死亡之后依然疯狂存在的事物。
08、Severance
断绝
作者:Ling Ma
☉ 关键词:职场、女性奋斗
☉ 适合人群:喜欢灵异风格的小伙伴一定要看,这本就是披着灵异外表的言情小说。
☉ 推荐语:
Part workplace novel, part young-woman-comes-of-age-in–New York City, part postapocalyptic nightmare, Severance contains insights about the daily drudgeries of life that are so real, they make the more fantastical elements of the book seem plausible.
从某种程度上,《断绝》既是一部职场小说,又是一部即将成年的年轻女性在纽约的奋斗史,也是一个末日后的噩梦。这部作品所描写的日常生活中的苦差事是如此真实,这使这本小说中虚构的元素看上去就像真的一样。
Told from the point of view of a woman who is one of the few last survivors of a plague that originates in China and decimates America, this phenomenal book explores what happens when we make any number of decisions by vote and fail to see or question the bigger picture.
这部非凡的作品的主角是在一场起源于中国并使大量美国人丧生的瘟疫中幸存的几人中的一位女性。这个故事以这位幸存者的视角探究了我们通过投票来做出决定以及未能了解或探究整体局势的时候所发生的事情。
09、My Year of Rest and Relaxation
休息放松的一年
作者:Ottessa Moshfegh
☉ 关键词:暗黑幽默
☉ 适合人群:作者着眼于个人,读起来略生涩。沉下心来看,能捕捉到作者的冷幽默。(夏天,冻死你!)
☉ 推荐语:
Reading Ottessa Moshfegh means embracing the darkest of humor, And yet, her writing is always propulsive even when — especially when — her characters are making terrible decisions.
读奥特萨·莫诗菲格的小说就意味着要接受最黑暗的幽默,但她的作品总能促使你读下去,甚至在她的角色做出糟糕的决定的时候。
In Moshfegh’s latest novel, she locates the humanity in the most narcissistic of heroines.
在莫诗菲格的新作中,她着眼于最自恋的女主角的人性。
10、Florida
弗罗里达
作者:Lauren Groff
☉ 关键词:感情小说
☉ 适合人群:富有创造性的描述感情的小说,适合已经读过一些同类型小说的小伙伴。
☉ 推荐语:
Groff is a great phrasemaker, and while her breakout novel Fates and Furies (one of Obama’s book shout-outs) was celebrated for its structurally inventive dissection of a too perfect marriage, her language stands out even better in short forms.
格洛夫是一位擅长写名言警句的人,虽然她的突破之作《婚姻的真相》(奥巴马推荐的书籍之一)因其创新性地剖析了一场太过完美的婚姻而备受称赞,但她书中精炼的语言甚至更为出色。
Groff’s first story collection since 2009’s Delicate Edible Birds largely features travelers trapped by storms both natural and emotional, often intent on dream vacations that morph into feverish nightmares.
从2009年发表的《精致的可食用鸟类》开始,格洛夫的第一部小说集主要讲述了被自然和情感风暴所困的旅客的故事,而且她往往会把梦想的假期变成令人焦虑不安的噩梦。
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