(广图041)毫不奇怪我看的这本英版封面上最显眼的地方写着“A Thunderclap” - Marion James了。这就是一简配易读版”A brief history of seven killings” 啊。 Urban Indians, 以前完全不了解的人群,但读来和所有美国社会边缘人群的故事似乎差别不大。文字上很有种rap感,也是为什么Marion James会喜欢吧;但刚读完Middlemarch读这本就觉得,当代小说就,还差点火候?//书中吐槽几次说当代Indians被迫用颜色来当作自己的姓,读完我一看封面,作者叫 Tommy Orange, 就突然很难过。12-19
So poetically hopeless and depressing. "Being Indigenous has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere and nowhere." Wherever you are, there is Indigenous country. All of it. Turtle Island. 03-16
弯弯
weaving 12 characters told in varying 1st/2nd/3rd-person voices, the device can feel mechanical&tiring, hard to keep track&delve deeper, some forgettable side characters. Otherwise, tremendous new perspective on urban native americans, bravura pro/interlogues, intergenerational pain&violence, search for identity. heavy on import of storytelling.06-07
作者说话太绕了,还喜欢用第二人称。人物多且杂。读到最后我都忘了之前这个人做过什么。一个说话绕的例子:But then he sees people run and stumble and drop and scream and generally lose their shit because soon , very soon , after what he at first thought must have been something else and not gunfire became in his mind and before his eyes definite gunfire.12-20
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