《纽约时报》2019年度十大好书_BEC初级作文

《纽约时报》2019年度十大好书

misgiving [ˌmɪsˈɡɪvɪŋ]：n.疑虑，担忧，不安

《开往丹吉尔的夜船》

By Kevin Barry

凯文·巴里著

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.