The year’s best books, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
年度最佳书籍,由《纽约时报》书评版编辑评选。
FICTION
虚构类
ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
《我们看不到的所有光明》(All the Light We Cannot See)
By Anthony Doerr
安东尼·多伊尔(Anthony Doerr)著
Scribner, $27.
斯克里布纳出版社(Scribner),27美元。
With brisk chapters and sumptuous language, Doerr’s second novel follows two characters whose paths will intersect in the waning days of World War II: an orphaned engineering prodigy recruited into the Nazi ranks, and a blind French girl who joins the Resistance. Tackling questions of survival, endurance and moral obligations during wartime, the book is as precise and artful and ingenious as the puzzle boxes the heroine’s locksmith father builds for her. Impressively, it is also a vastly entertaining feat of storytelling.
这是多伊尔的第二部小说,以轻快的章节和丰富的语言讲述两个人物的人生道路如何在“二战”之后交汇:一个是被招募为纳粹士兵的工程天才孤儿,另一个是加入抵抗组织的失明法国女孩。本书探讨战争期间的生存、忍耐与道德困境,如同女主人公做锁匠的父亲为她打造的谜箱一样精确而巧妙。它令人难忘,在叙事上也展现出引人入胜的技巧。