Klara and the Sun-行业好书-社会科学-太极之巅书单号

书刊介绍

内容简介

From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love? A thrilling feat of world-building, a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, and an international literary event.

作者简介

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight works of fiction have earned him many awards and honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over fifty languages. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go were made into acclaimed films. Ishiguro ...

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精彩摘录

“让我来告诉你一件事，克拉拉。孩子们总是在许诺。他们来到窗前，许诺各种各样的事情。他们许诺会回来，他们求你不要让别人把你领走。这种事情一直在发生。但十有七八，那个孩子永远也不会回来。或者，更糟糕的是，那个孩子回来了，却看也不看一直在等他的那个AF，反而转身选了另一个。孩子们就是这样的。克拉拉，你一直在观察，在学习，也学到了很多。那么，这就是我要教给你的又一课。你明白了吗？”

——引自第42页

如我所说，这些对我来说都是有用的经历。我不但懂得了“变”是乔西的一部分，我应该准备好适应它，我还开始懂得这并非乔西独有的特质；懂得人们时常觉得有必要拿出自己特意准备好的一面来展示给路人看——就像是布置商店橱窗一样——而这样的展示一旦时过境迁，也就无须太放在心上了。

——引自第106页