Claire Keegan’s brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in the timeless world of modern-day Irela...
Claire Keegan’s brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in the timeless world of modern-day Ireland. In the never-before-published story “The Long and Painful Death,” a writer awarded a stay to work in Heinrich Böll’s old cottage has her peace interrupted by an unwelcome intruder, whose ulterior motives only emerge as the night progresses. In the title story, a priest waits at the altar to perform a marriage and, during the ceremony and the festivities that follow, battles his memories of a love affair with the bride that led him to question all to which he has dedicated his life; later that night, he finds an unlikely answer in the magical healing powers of a seer.
A masterful portrait of a country wrestling with its past and of individuals eking out their futures, Walk the Blue Fields is a breathtaking collection from one of Ireland’s greatest talents, and a resounding articulation of all the yearnings of the human heart.
It's like several old Irish folk songs or parables been put together. Full of lyrical and irrisistable sadness for destiny which dips your heart in bitter and heavy sea salt.
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克莱尔·吉根 作者
蓝文青
人民文学出版社2011版
小曾
人民文学出版社2011版
麋鹿先生
人民文学出版社2017版
无心柳
人民文学出版社2011版
0 有用 浅草 2014-09-07 20:40:33
爱尔兰风味很迷人
0 有用 èllé 2023-02-04 23:17:57 黑龙江
首尾两篇应该是最有触动的
0 有用 pityOxygen 2019-10-03 17:24:09
最喜欢The Forester's Daughter 和 Close to the Water's Edge。Keegan的女性视跟最近几年的一系列女性作品有如云泥，没有一丝的宣扬式的投机，而是由自身观察、出于内心一种真挚体谅和开放。再次感叹Irish短篇小说水平。
0 有用 醉脸春融 2019-01-12 09:11:37
既扎根于爱尔兰文学传统，又透出了卡佛般的简洁有力。Keegan小说中描摹的不仅仅是爱尔兰普通人的生活状态，而是异常物态经过辛苦谈判和磨合之后的平隐状态，其间蕴藏着惊人的力度。
0 有用 听说 2014-02-20 12:38:09
best of the week
0 有用 栉海 2023-08-16 14:48:51 上海
It's like several old Irish folk songs or parables been put together. Full of lyrical and irrisistable sadness for destiny which dips your heart in bitter and heavy sea salt.
0 有用 - 2023-07-20 23:22:19 上海
比中文版少一篇，评价是不如南极……我觉得她还是适合短篇幅，这本普遍有点偏长了，小事情说实话也没有太深的印象，南极最惊艳。也可能因为是最早的一本，后面的慢慢没那么锋利了，变得有一点中年人生活的鸡零狗碎。
0 有用 èllé 2023-02-04 23:17:57 黑龙江
首尾两篇应该是最有触动的
0 有用 Claire C. W. 2020-09-01 22:45:24
冷静、克制、从容、含蓄，从远处默默地看。。。
0 有用 beautifularea 2020-07-15 11:10:40
好看