Roberto Bolan O
8.7 (assessed by 2,707 people)
"2666" is divided into five parts, telling five independent stories that echo each other. The first part, literary critics. Four contemporary European literary critics (three men and one woman) were linked by a German writer named Beno von Aken Poldi. These four scholars translated and studied Poldi in their respective countries, and finally met at an international literary seminar and became good friends. Then, a romantic feeling gradually sprouted among three couples ... An accidental gossip made people believe that the piano Poldi suddenly appeared in Mexico recently. So, three of the four critics flew to Mexico and came to a run-down city called Santa Teresa. ...
Part two, Amalfitano. Amalfitano, a philosophy professor living in Santa Teresa, is approaching the edge of insanity every day. His wife Laura left him because she was infatuated with a poet living in a mental hospital, and now he lives alone with his 17-year-old daughter in this desolate town on the Mexican border. One day, he decided to hang a geometry book on the clothesline in the yard when sorting out the book boxes, so as to have a look at this abstract math book "How to resist the attack of nature" and "How to overcome the desert weather", "Let the wind wander among the pages, choose the questions it is interested in, and open and tear those pages".
The third part, fate. A black American journalist named Oscar Fatt appeared. He worked for a new york magazine and was sent to Santa Teresa for an interview because of a boxing match in Mexico. Here he met a group of local media people and also met Amar Fitano's daughter. Fatt learned that this border city was threatened by serial murders, and local women were constantly killed, raped and then abandoned in the wild. Fatt tried to interview and report these terrible murders, but found it difficult. ...
The fourth part, crime. The whole novel is the longest and darkest part. In a bloody way, the author presents the successive murders in Saint Teresa to the readers, which makes people shudder. The author recorded that more than 1993 1 month to 1997 12 months, and more than 100 women were murdered in Santa Teresa. The police can't solve these murders, nor can they stop them from continuing. ...
The fifth part, A Qin Polti. A Qin Poldi finally appeared. And his story begins from childhood. Here is a story about how a child born in a seaside village fell in love with a book called Animals and Plants in the Coastal Areas of Europe, how to become a young servant of a declining manor, how to start reading novels, how to join the army in the battlefield of World War II, how to experience various adventures in the war, how to become a writer after the war, how to make himself anonymous, how to get in touch with the murder case in Mexico, and how to decide to go to Santa Teresa.
Don't lose or forget.
Kazuo Ishiguro
8.8 (evaluated by 9987 people)
Don't forget what is lost is a dystopian science fiction novel by kazuo ishiguro, and it was shortlisted for Booker Award and American Book Critics Association Award in 2005. In Hallsjo School, deep in the English countryside, three good friends Kathy, Ruth and Tommy grew up here leisurely. They were taken good care of by their tutors and received a good education in poetry and art, but Hallsjo, which looks like a paradise, hides many secrets. When Kathy grew up, she gradually found that the beautiful growth process in her memory was full of unpredictable confusion and terrible question marks. ...
Plane country
Edwin Albert
9. 1(87 10 score)
It can be: popular science books that explain the concept of "dimension" for the first time, sci-fi novels with wide brain holes, serious mathematical fairy tales, spiritual enlightenment with a biased sword, and social fables that satirize Victorian England.
This little book, which was born a hundred years ago, is full of serious nonsense and exudes a strong British humor. It's funny, charming and funny.
On the basis of setting the plane universe, the author develops a detailed picture of life in a "plane country". In a flat country, all kinds of residents worry about their own national society, just as we worry about our daily life. They live in a flat house, identify others by fog and light, and distinguish their identities by touching each other to identify their "angles". In the history of countries in the world, there have also been great events caused by the elimination of classes through dyeing, which is not much compared with the human history of the space world.
The protagonist of the story, a decent Mr. Fang, suddenly met a "ball" who came from a three-dimensional country to a flat country to preach the gospel. He decided to follow this mentor to spread the truth of three-dimensional space to Pingguo, but he could not explain the height and top (not the north) in a language that Pingguo residents could understand. After being regarded as a madman, he wrote this book "Plane Country" handed down from generation to generation.
As readers, we will gain God's perspective in this story, examine ourselves with a scientific attitude and understand "scientific humility".