运营经验《纽约时报》2019年度十大好书(2)

A desolate ferry terminal on the Spanish coast isn’t a place where you’d expect to encounter sharp-edged lyricism or rueful philosophy, but thanks to the two Irish gangster antiheroes of Barry’s novel, there’s plenty of both on display, along with scabrously amusing tale-telling and much summoning of painful memories. Their lives have become so intertwined that the young woman whose arrival they await can qualify as family for either man. Will she show? How much do they care? Their banter is a shield against the dark, a witty new take on “Waiting for Godot.”

你不会想到在西班牙海岸一个荒凉的渡轮码头遭遇锐利的抒情文字或悲叹的哲学，但由于巴里的小说中有两个爱尔兰黑帮反英雄人物，两者都得到了不少展现，与此同时还讲述了粗俗有趣的故事，唤起许多痛苦的回忆。他们的生活已经变得如此紧密地交织在一起，以至于他们等待的年轻女子可以成为他们两人的家人。她会露面吗？他们真的很在意吗？他们的玩笑是抵御黑暗的盾牌，一部《等待戈多》的诙谐新版本。

《什么都不说》

By Patrick Radden Keefe

帕特里克·拉登·基夫著

Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this meticulously reported book — as finely paced as a novel — Keefe uses McConville’s murder as a prism to tell the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Interviewing people on both sides of the conflict, he transforms the tragic damage and waste of the era into a searing, utterly gripping saga.

1972年，蒙面者闯入38岁的寡妇、10个孩子的母亲珍·麦康维尔在贝尔法斯特的家中，将她拖了出来。在这本精心叙述的书中——步调精巧犹如小说——基夫以麦康维尔谋杀案为棱镜，讲述了北爱尔兰动乱的历史。他采访了冲突双方的人，把那个时代的悲剧性破坏和损耗变成了一个灼热的、扣人心弦的传奇故事。

《俱乐部》

By Leo Damrosch

利奥·达姆罗施

The English painter Joshua Reynolds just wanted to cheer up his friend Samuel Johnson, who was feeling blue. Who knew that the Friday night gab sessions he proposed they convene at London’s Turk’s Head Tavern would end up attracting virtually all the leading lights of late-18th-century Britain? Damrosch brings the Club’s redoubtable personalities — the brilliant minds, the jousting wits, the tender camaraderie — to vivid life, delivering indelible portraits of Johnson and Reynolds, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, the actor David Garrick, the historian Edward Gibbon and, of course, Johnson’s loyal biographer James Boswell: “a constellation of talent that has rarely if ever been equaled.”

英国画家约书亚·雷诺兹只是想让他情绪低落的朋友塞缪尔·约翰逊高兴起来。谁知道他提议的周五晚上在伦敦土耳其人头酒馆举行的夜聊会，最终会吸引18世纪末英国几乎所有的领袖人物？达姆罗施将《俱乐部》里令人敬畏的个性——聪明的头脑、机智的口水战、温柔的友情——带到生动的生活中，呈现出一幅幅不可磨灭的肖像：约翰逊和雷诺兹、埃德蒙·伯克、亚当·斯密、演员大卫·加里克、历史学家爱德华·吉本，当然还有约翰逊忠诚的传记作者詹姆斯·鲍斯威尔：“一群很少甚至无人能及的天才”。

redoubtable [rɪˈdaʊtəbl]：adj.令人敬畏的

《黄房子》

By Sarah M. Broom

萨拉·M·布鲁姆著

In her extraordinary, engrossing debut, Broom pushes past the baseline expectations of memoir to create an entertaining and inventive amalgamation of literary forms. Part oral history, part urban history, part celebration of a bygone way of life, “The Yellow House” is a full indictment of the greed, discrimination, indifference and poor city planning that led her family’s home to be wiped off the map. Tracing the history of a single home in New Orleans East (an area “50 times the size of the French Quarter,”yet nowhere to be found on most tourist maps, comprising scraps of real estate whites have passed over), from the ’60s to Hurricane Katrina, this is an instantly essential text, examining the past, present and possible future of the city of New Orleans, and of America writ large.

在她非凡、引人入胜的处女作中，布鲁姆超越了对一本回忆录的基本期待，创造了一种娱乐和创造性相融合的文学形式。部分是口述历史，部分是城市历史，部分是对过去生活方式的赞美，《黄房子》是对贪婪、歧视、冷漠和糟糕的城市规划的全面控诉，正是这些导致她家的房子从地图上消失。追踪新奥尔良东部（一片“有法国区50倍大的区域”，大多数旅游地图上却无处可寻，如何采集网页数据，其中有零星被白人忽略的房产）一个家庭的历史，从上世纪60年代到卡特里娜飓风，本书立刻成为了一部必读文本，审视着新奥尔良市乃至整个美国的过去、现在和未来。

writ large：显而易见的

《无可见挫伤》

By Rachel Louise Snyder

雷切尔·路易斯·斯奈德著

Snyder’s thoroughly reported book covers what the World Health Organization has called “a global health problem of epidemic proportions.” In America alone, more than half of all murdered women are killed by a current or former partner; domestic violence cuts across lines of class, religion and race. Snyder debunks pervasive myths (restraining orders are the answer, abusers never change) and writes movingly about the lives (and deaths) of people on both sides of the equation. She doesn’t give easy answers but presents a wealth of information that is its own form of hope.

运营经验《纽约时报》2019年度十大好书(2)
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