9. Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001)
伊恩·麦克尤恩《赎罪》,(2001年)
The novel opens on a summer day in 1935, when 13-year-old Briony shows her mother a play she's written to perform with her three cousins the next evening. "Briony was hardly to know it then, but this was the project's highest point of fulfillment," McEwan writes. "Nothing came near it for satisfaction, all else was dreams and frustration."That evening, Briony witnesses her 15-year-old cousin Lola being assaulted in the darkened woods. Her testimony implicates Robbie, her sister Cecilia's boyfriend from Cambridge and son of the family house maid, and he is jailed. In a second section, McEwan gives a panoramic account of the harrowing evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, with Robbie among those saved. Realising she has ruined Cecilia and Robbie's lives, Briony works as a nurse during the Blitz in a third section. As McEwan follows these characters through six decades, Briony's search for redemption evolves into a meditation on the power of art. (Anchor)
这部小说以1935年的一个夏日开篇,13岁的女孩布里奥妮在向她的母亲展示她刚完成的剧本,并准备在第二天晚上和她的三个表姐一起表演。“布里奥妮当时还不知道,这已经是她的这个剧本最成功的时刻了!其他的设想都只是些白日梦,不能为她带来任何满足,甚至会让她尝到沮丧的滋味。”当天晚上,布里奥妮15岁的表姐洛拉遭强暴,布里奥妮在黑暗的树林中看到了凶手。布里奥妮出庭指证罪犯就是家庭女仆的儿子罗比,罗比来自剑桥,也是布里奥妮姐姐塞西莉亚的男朋友,罗比被捕入狱。在书的第二部分,麦克尤恩对敦刻尔克大撤退的颓败进行了全景描述,罗比就是其中的幸存者。在第三部分,布里奥妮认识到自己的误解毁了塞西莉亚和罗比的一生,渴望赎罪的她成为闪电战期间的一名医护人员。整本书跨越60年时间,一生忏悔的布里奥妮最后将情感注入笔下成就了其艺术之魂。(Anchor出版社)
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