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    《The Times》评选2021十大年度最佳图书!

    摘要  

     提高外刊阅读能力书单有了~

     2021已经进入倒计时,《时代书评》( The Times Book Review)的编辑们选出了今年最有影响力的的10本书籍,包括虚构类和非虚构类书籍。


    都说“好的英语是读出来的”,其实,学习任何一门语言,大量、高质量文献的阅读都是快速提升语言水平的捷径。

    这份书单,紧跟世界时事,而且大部分的理念既先锋、同时又容易理解,是大家不错的书单哦~

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    《我们曾经多么美丽》

    《How Beautiful We Were》

     

    作者:伊博洛·姆布埃

     Imbolo Mbue

     

    推荐理由:

    “故事开始于1980年,发生在一个虚构的非洲村庄 Kosawa。在那里,一家美国石油公司的代表与当地人见面,他们的孩子因为钻井和输油管造成的环境破坏(休耕地、有毒的水)而濒临死亡。


    这是一个跨越数十年的关于权力和腐败的寓言故事。通过作者笔下的年轻人和老年人的眼睛,姆布对自身利益、在资本主义和殖民主义时代的欲望意味着什么——这些恶毒、贪得无厌的欲望机器——进行了细致入微的探索。”


    This novel begins in 1980 in the fictional African village of Kosawa, where representatives from an American oil company have come to meet with the locals, whose children are dying because of the environmental havoc (fallow fields, poisoned water) wreaked by its drilling and pipelines.

    This is a decades-spanning fable of power and corruption. Through the eyes of Kosawa’s citizens young and old, Mbue constructs a nuanced exploration of self-interest, of what it means to want in the age of capitalism and colonialism — these machines of malicious, insatiable wanting.

     

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    《亲密关系》

    《Intimacies》

     

    作者:凯蒂·北村

    Katie Kitamura

     

    推荐理由:


    就像她的上一部小说《分离》(a Separation)一样,《亲密关系》(intimacy)仔细审视了我们周围人的可知性,不是审视其本身的目的,而是审视从中产阶级化到殖民主义再到女权主义等宏大社会问题的镜头。

    北村优美而简洁的散文优雅地打破了语法惯例,反映了该书对亲密关系之间流血线的关注,尤其是在真诚和强制之间。这本书似乎在说,人生穿越世界的道路,其最大的意义在于它对他人的影响。

    Like her previous novel, “A Separation,” “Intimacies” scrutinizes the knowability of those around us, not as an end in itself but as a lens on grand social issues from gentrification to colonialism to feminism. 

    Kitamura’s sleek and spare prose elegantly breaks grammatical convention, mirroring the book’s concern with the bleeding lines between intimacies — especially between the sincere and the coercive. The path a life cuts through the world, this book seems to say, has its greatest significance in the effect it has on others.

     

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    《杜波依斯的情歌》

    The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

     

    作者:法诺妮·杰弗斯

     Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

     

    推荐理由:

     

    著名诗人杰弗斯的第一部小说《 w · e · b · 杜波依斯的情歌》(The Love Songs of w.e.b. Du Bois)同时包含了许多内容: 一部动人的成长传奇、一部对种族的考察,以及对美国历史的挖掘。

    它在 Ailey Pearl Garfield 的故事,一个在20世纪末成长起来的黑人女孩,和她的祖先的“歌曲”之间来回切换,她的祖先是美洲原住民和奴役的非裔美国人,他们经历了美利坚合众国的形成。

    “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,” the first novel by Jeffers, a celebrated poet, is many things at once: a moving coming-of-age saga, an examination of race and an excavation of American history. 

    It cuts back and forth between the tale of Ailey Pearl Garfield, a Black girl growing up at the end of the 20th century, and the “songs” of her ancestors, Native Americans and enslaved African Americans who lived through the formation of the United States. 

     

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    《无人问津》

    No One Is Talking About This

     

    作者:帕特里夏 · 洛克伍德

    Patricia Lockwood

     

    推荐理由:

     

    这是洛克伍德在互联网上第一次作为诗人获得赞誉,他的诗歌极具创造力和粗俗——包含了性暗示的精湛技巧。在她2017年出版的令人印象深刻的回忆录《 Priestdaddy 》(Priestdaddy)中,她把 twitter 称为“一种艺术形式,就像雕塑一样,或者在腋下鸣喇叭庆祝国歌。”
     
    这本回忆录讲述了她在中西部各地的住所长大的经历,由她那爱好枪支、会弹吉他的天主教牧师父亲主持在这里,在她的第一部小说中,她提炼了生活的快乐和匮乏,在网络和血肉之间的互动,将不和谐转化为艺术。结果就是这本书读起来像一首散文诗,既庄严,又亵渎,亲密,哲学,滑稽,最终,深深感动。

    Lockwood first found acclaim as a poet on the internet, with gloriously inventive and ribald verse — sexts elevated to virtuosity. In “Priestdaddy,” her indelible 2017 memoir about growing up in rectories across the Midwest presided over by her gun-loving, guitar-playing father, a Catholic priest, she called tweeting “an art form, like sculpture, or honking the national anthem under your armpit.”
     
    Here, in her first novel, she distills the pleasures and deprivations of life split between online and flesh-and-blood interactions, transfiguring the dissonance into art. The result is a book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, hilarious and, eventually, deeply moving.

     

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    《当我们停止了解世界》

    When We Cease to Understand the World

     

    作者:本杰明 · 拉巴图

    Benjamín Labatut

     

    推荐理由:

     

    拉巴图巧妙地将20世纪最伟大的思想家的故事缝合在一起,这种虚构与非虚构的非凡结合,也激发了扩展的“真或假”测试的兴奋: 我们读得越深,事实与虚构之间的界限就越模糊。
     
    他在数学家亚历山大·格罗滕迪克、物理学家维尔纳·海森堡和化学家 Fritz Haber 等人的指导下,探索知识的最外层边缘,让我们瞥见了一个隐藏在可观测世界之下具有无限潜力的宇宙,这是一个“事物核心的黑暗核心”,一些目击者认为最好不要涉及它。

     

    Labatut expertly stitches together the stories of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers,this extraordinary hybrid of fiction and nonfiction also provokes the frisson of an extended true-or-false test: The further we read, the blurrier the line gets between fact and fabulism.
     
    His journey to the outermost edges of knowledge — guided by the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, the physicist Werner Heisenberg and the chemist Fritz Haber, among others — offers glimpses of a universe with limitless potential underlying the observable world, a “dark nucleus at the heart of things” that some of its witnesses decide is better left alone. 

     

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    《哥本哈根三部曲:童年、青年、依赖》

    The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency

     

    作者:托芙·迪特列夫森

    Tove Ditlevsen

     

    推荐理由:

     

    迪特列夫森华丽的回忆录,于20世纪60年代和70年代在丹麦首次出版。她14岁就加入了工作队伍,20岁出头就成为了一名著名的诗人,在两次失败的婚姻后,她发现自己已经嫁给了一个精神病医生,到30多岁时就绝望地依赖阿片类药物。

     

    然而,尽管她的生活充满了戏剧性的转折,这些书共同展现了一种令人惊叹的清晰、幽默和坦率,不仅将光投射在世界的残酷现实上,也投射在我们神秘的自我无法言喻的冲动上。

     

    Ditlevsen’s gorgeous memoirs, first published in Denmark in the 1960s and ’70s. She joined the working ranks at 14, became a renowned poet by her early 20s, and found herself, after two failed marriages, wedded to a psychopathic doctor and hopelessly dependent on opioids by her 30s. 

     

    Yet for all the dramatic twists of her life, these books together project a stunning clarity, humor and candidness, casting light not just on the world’s harsh realities but on the inexplicable impulses of our secret selves.

     

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    《话语是如何传播的:对美国奴隶制历史的反思》

    How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America

     

    作者:克林特·史密斯

    Clint Smith

     

    推荐理由:

     

    作为一名诗人和记者,作者为了这本及时而发人深省的书,参观了对奴隶制历史和奴隶制今天的遗产至关重要的遗址,包括美国的狮身人面像:托马斯·杰弗逊的性格的蒙蒂塞洛,路易斯安那州监狱,以及南部邦联的墓地。

     

    通过对游客、导游、积极分子和当地历史学家的采访,史密斯仔细阅读了学术知识和辛酸的个人反思,他为美国与其过去令人忧虑的关系提供了一面镜子,捕捉到了美好意图、真诚的纠正、任性的无知和赤裸裸的歪曲的强有力的混合体。

     

    For this timely and thought-provoking book, Smith, a poet and journalist, toured sites key to the history of slavery and its present-day legacy, including Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello; Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary; and a Confederate cemetery. 

     

    Interspersing interviews with the tourists, guides, activists and local historians he meets along the way with close readings of scholarship and poignant personal reflection, Smith holds up a mirror to America’s fraught relationship with its past, capturing a potent mixture of good intentions, earnest corrective, willful ignorance and blatant distortion.

     

     

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    《隐形的孩子:美国城市的贫困、生存和希望》

    Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City

     

    作者:安德里亚·埃利奥特

    Andrea Elliott

     

    推荐理由:

     

    2013年,埃利奥特为《纽约时报》撰写了关于无家可归的纽约女学生达萨尼 · 科茨(Dasani Coates)及其家人的系列文章。为了扩展这个系列文章,她花了数年时间,通过避难所、学校、法庭和福利办公室,跟踪研究她日常生活中的主题。

     

    她写的这本书——内容亲切,文笔优美,充满了达萨尼和她母亲的强烈爱意和睿智观察——是一本尖锐的书,讲述了一个家庭在一个城市和国家与贫困、无家可归和毒瘾作斗争的故事,而这个城市和国家未能以有效或同情的方式解决这些问题。

     

    To expand on her acclaimed 2013 series for The Times about Dasani Coates, a homeless New York schoolgirl, and her family, Elliott spent years following her subjects in their daily lives, through shelters, schools, courtrooms and welfare offices.

     

    The book she has produced — intimately reported, elegantly written and suffused with the fierce love and savvy observations of Dasani and her mother — is a searing account of one family’s struggle with poverty, homelessness and addiction in a city and country that have failed to address these issues with efficacy or compassion.

     

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    《六月节》

    On Juneteenth

     

    作者:安妮特·戈登-里德

     Annette Gordon-Reed

     

    推荐理由:

     

    这本书编织在一起的历史和回忆录成一个短卷,是有见地,感人和勇气。戈登-里德在探讨她的家乡德克萨斯州的种族和社会复杂性时,要求读者从当前的激烈辩论中退后一步,更细致地审视历史及其带来的惊喜。

     

    这样的观点对她来说很容易,因为她是历史的一部分ーー她是第一个融入东德克萨斯学校的黑人孩子。 

     

    This book weaves together history and memoir into a short volume that is insightful, touching and courageous. Exploring the racial and social complexities of Texas, her home state, Gordon-Reed asks readers to step back from the current heated debates and take a more nuanced look at history and the surprises it can offer.

     

    Such a perspective comes easy to her because she was a part of history — the first Black child to integrate her East Texas school.

     

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    《六月节红色彗星:西尔维娅·普拉斯短暂的一生和炽热的艺术》

    Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

     

    作者:希瑟·克拉克

    Heather Clark

     

    推荐理由: 

     

    普拉斯的生平和1963年30岁时自杀身亡的经历,已经被学者们彻底研究透彻。然而,这部经过精心研究、长达1000多页、出人意料地引人入胜的作品,却是一项里程碑式的成就。
     
    作者克拉克是英格兰的一位诗歌教授,他决心把这位诗人从死后的漫画中拯救出来,把她塑造成一个注定失败的疯女人,并“把她重新定位为20世纪最重要的美国作家之一”。他用生动的笔触讲述了一位罕见的文学天才,以及那个阻挠和鼓励她的家族和知识分子的环境,这些都通过引用普拉斯的信件、日记、诗歌和散文得到了启发。

     

    It’s daring to undertake a new biography of Plath, whose life, and death by suicide at 30 in 1963, have been thoroughly picked over by scholars. Yet this meticulously researched and, at more than 1,000 pages, unexpectedly riveting portrait is a monumental achievement.

     

    Determined to rescue the poet from posthumous caricature as a doomed madwoman and “reposition her as one of the most important American writers of the 20th century,” Clark, a professor of poetry in England, delivers a transporting account of a rare literary talent and the familial and intellectual milieu that both thwarted and encouraged her, enlivened throughout by quotations from Plath’s letters, diaries, poetry and prose.

     

    Ref:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/books/review/best-books-2021.html

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