豆瓣评分:6.7
副标题: A Novel
电子书下载格式:mobi+epub+pdf+txt
作者:HaJin
出版时间:2011-10-18
书籍简介:
The award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash returns to his homeland in a searing new novel that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century: the Rape of Nanjing.
In 1937, with the Japanese poised to invade Nanjing, Minnie Vautrin—an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women’s College—decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will help her safeguard the welfare of the Chinese men and women who work there. She is painfully mistaken. In the aftermath of the invasion, the school becomes a refugee camp for more than ten thousand homeless women and children, and Vautrin must struggle, day after day, to intercede on behalf of the hapless victims. Even when order and civility are eventually restored, Vautrin remains deeply embattled, and she is haunted by the lives she could not save.
With extraordinarily evocative precision, Ha Jin re-creates the terror, the harrowing deprivations, and the menace of unexpected violence that defined life in Nanjing during the occupation. In Minnie Vautrin he has given us an indelible portrait of a woman whose convictions and bravery prove, in the end, to be no match for the maelstrom of history.
At once epic and intimate, Nanjing Requiem is historical fiction at its most resonant.
作者简介:
哈金,美籍华裔作家,用英文创作。1956年生于中国东北,14岁参军,1977年考入黑龙江大学英语系,并于1985年于山东大学取得美国文学硕士学位,并于次年赴美攻读博士学位。现为美国波士顿大学英语系教授,主要教授创意写作、移民文学和诗歌学方面的课程。其《战争垃圾》、《等待》等小说作品,在美国主流社会引起巨大的反响和赞誉,曾两度入围普利策小说奖,并荣获美国国家图书奖等诸多奖项。可以说是当下国际文坛上最受瞩目的华人作者(没有之一)——他所斩获的奖项连美国本土作家都望及项背。
【主要作品】
长篇小说:
《池塘》(In the Pond,1998)
《等待》(Waiting,1999)
《疯狂》(The Crazed,2002)
《战争垃圾》(War Trash,2004) )
《自由生活》(A Free Life,2007)
《南京安魂曲》(Nanjing Requiem,2011)
短篇小说集:
《词海》(Ocean of Words,1996)
《在红旗下》(Under the Red Flag,1997)
《新郎》(The Bridegroom,2000)
【获奖记录】
1996年获弗兰纳里•奥康纳小说奖
1997年获海明威基金会/笔会奖
1999年获古根海姆研究基金
1999年获美国国家图书奖
2000年获笔会/福克纳奖
2000年–2002年获亚洲研究基金
2002年获汤森德小说奖(Townsend Prize for Fiction)
2005年获美国笔会/福克纳奖
2006年获美国艺术与科学研究院会员称号
此外,《等待》和《战争垃圾》分别入围2000年和2005年
普利策奖小说类决赛名单。