BBC推荐10本9月必读英文好书_BEC初级作文

BBC推荐10本9月必读英文好书

在这本绝妙的新小说中，因《美声唱法》获得2001年柑橘文学奖的作者帕奇特追溯了一个美国家庭长达50年的历史变迁，而这一切仅仅源于一次冲动行为。故事开头是费克斯和贝弗利·基廷的二女儿弗兰妮的受礼仪式，一位洛杉矶小律师伯特·考辛斯带着一瓶杜松子酒不请自来。宴会结束时，他已经亲吻了女主人贝弗利。帕奇特探究了背叛带来的巨大影响，并在其中塑造了让人印象深刻的复杂人物。

3. Franz Kafka, Konundrum

弗兰兹·卡夫卡作品集

"Kafkaesque" is "synonymous with the nightmarish, the ominous, and the bureaucratically bizarre," notes Peter Wortsman in the afterword to his lucid and rhythmic translation of a selection of the Prague icon's short stories, parables, letters and diaries.

“卡夫卡式”就是“噩梦般的、不祥的、充满官僚主义的怪异”，彼得·沃茨曼在后记中如此写道。这本书收集了捷克代表作家卡夫卡的短篇故事、寓言、信件和日记，而沃茨曼的译文清晰明了，韵律感十足。

4. Peter Ho Davies, The Fortunes

彼得·何·戴维斯《命运》

Davies distills 150 years of Chinese-American history in his timely and eloquent new novel. In Gold, the first of its four sections, Ah Ling, 14, the son of a Hong Kong prostitute, seeks his fortune in California. Silver portrays the 30-year career of the LA-born actress Anna May Wong, who co-stars with Douglas Fairbanks at 19.