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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。
《我们曾经多么美丽》 《How Beautiful We Were》 作者:伊博洛·姆布埃 Imbolo Mbue “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。”
《亲密关系》 《Intimacies》 作者:凯蒂·北村 Katie Kitamura 推荐理由:
《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:
《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:
《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:
《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.
《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.
《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.
《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.
《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: 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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