2017诺贝尔文学奖得主 石黑一雄作品 火热预售中,预计11月中旬到货,先订先发 The Remains of the Day: Faber Modern Classics 石黑一雄:长日留痕 Kazuo Ishiguro (作者) 基本信息 出版社: Faber Faber; Main - Faber Modern Classics (2015年4月2日) 平装: 272页 语种: 英语 ISBN: 0571322735 条形码: 9780571322732 商品尺寸: 12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm 商品重量: 304 g ASIN: 0571322735 内容简介 The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the world's greatest writers. David Lodge, chairman of the judges in 1989, said, it's "a cunningly structured and beautifully paced performance". This is a haunting evocation of lost causes and lost love, and an elegy for England at a time of acute change. Ishiguro's work has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold millions of copies worldwide. Stevens, the lon
Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp. A heart-breaking portrait of one man's life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack's last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the pa
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