8. Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2017)
本·方汀的《比利·林恩漫长的中场休息》(2017年出版)
Eight rookies from the US army’s Bravo squad, fresh from a firefight with Iraqi insurgents, are dubbed war heroes by the Fox News cable channel. Their two-week stateside victory tour ends with a halftime salute at a Dallas Cowboys game. Fountain gives us a memorable narrator in 19-year-old Billy Lynn, with his combination of lust,bedazzlement and post-traumatic stress disorder.
在与伊拉克叛乱者的交火结束没多久,美国军队刺杀小组的八名新兵便被福克斯资讯频道标榜为战争英雄。他们在美国国内历时两周的胜利巡演,最终以达拉斯牛仔队橄榄球球赛的中场表演画上句号。方汀为我们呈现的是一位让人记忆犹新的讲述者,他是19岁的比利·林恩。与此同时,我们得以一窥比利的欲望、茫然困惑以及创伤后应激障碍(post-traumatic stress disorder,缩写PTSD)。
注:李安导演已经确定要将这本书拍成电影!该片的编剧西蒙·比弗尤还曾凭借《贫民窟的百万富翁》(Slumdog Millionaire)获过奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖。
9. Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001)
伊恩·麦克尤恩的《赎罪》(2001年出版)
McEwan’s haunting and beautifully crafted 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 young cousins the next evening.
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