AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD
Book ID/图书代码: 11701205B04013
English Summary/英文概要: It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet Iantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his seren
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 1948年,第二次世界大战之后,日本正在重建各大城市,日本人民把战败的悲痛远远丢在背后,面向未来,积极重建。井伏鳟二 小野把他的时间主要都打发在修理花园啊,整修房子啊,还有他的两个已经长成的女儿和外孙身上,晚上跟一些老伙计在那家 点着灯笼的酒吧就啜几口酒。
他应该算是安安静静的过着退休生活了。但是他的记忆慢慢又回到了从前--以前那段深受日本帝国主义影响的生活--黑影渐渐笼罩了他晚年生活... (AC)
Awards/获奖情况:石黑一雄共出版了六部作品:1982年《群山淡景》(A Pale View of Hills), 获得“英国皇家学会”(Royal Society of Literature)温尼弗雷德.霍尔比奖(Winifred Holtby Prize)。1986年《浮世画家》(An Artist of the Floating World),获英国及爱尔兰图书协会颁发的“惠特布莱德”年度最佳小说奖(Whitbread Book of the Year Award)和英国布克奖(Booker Prize)的提名。1989年《长日将尽》(The Remains of the Day),荣获英国布克奖,并荣登《出版家周刊》的畅销排行榜。1995年《无法安慰》(The Unconsoled)赢得了“契尔特纳姆”文学艺术奖(Cheltenham Prize)。 2000年《我辈孤雏》(When We Were Orphans),再次获得布克奖提名。以及2005年新作《别让我走》(Never Let Me Go),也入围了布克奖最后决选名单,并获全世界文学奖奖金最高的“欧洲小说奖”(European Novel Award)。
以文体细腻优美著称,几乎每部小说都被提名或得奖,作品已被翻译达二十八种语言。
About the Author/作者介绍: Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954 and came to Britain at the age of five. He attended the University of Kent and studied English Literature and Philosophy, and later enrolled in an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of the novels A Pale View of Hills (winner of the Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (winner of the 1986 Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Premio Scanno, and shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (winner of the 1989 Booker Prize) and When We Were Orphans (shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize and Whitbread Novel of the Year).
Kazuo Ishiguro’s books have been translated into twenty-eight languages. The Remains of the Day became an international bestseller, with over a million copies sold in the English language alone, and was adapted into an award-winning film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.
In 1995 Ishiguro received an OBE for Services to Literature, and in 1998 the French decoration of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
布克奖得主 —— 石黑一雄
石黑一雄为日裔英籍著名作家,幼年随父赴英格兰,现居住于伦敦,其主要作品有《苍白的山色》、《浮世艺术家》及《上海孤儿》等。他曾获“布克奖”、“威尼弗雷德·霍尔特比奖”,被誉为英格兰最受崇敬的小说家之一。石黑一雄的早期作品多有关惟我主义以及人性的禁锢和封闭,以此为素材,他着力暴露了20世纪初叶历史的缺憾及帝国主义的弱点。
石黑一雄非常年轻即享誉世界文坛,与鲁西迪、奈波尔被称为「英国文坛移民三雄」,以「国际主义作家」自称。曾被英国皇室授勋为文学骑士,并获授法国艺术文学骑士勋章。石黑一雄是亚裔作家中,少数在创作上不以移民背景或文化差异的题材为主,而着重在更具普遍细腻的人性刻划的作者。
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