Introduction of English novels worth reading;
1, slow-heating person
Author J.M. Coetzee
Zhejiang literature and art publishing house
Translated by Zou Hailun
20 13-3
Slow Man (by J.M. Coetzee) is Coetzee's first novel after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. This realistic novel about old age, disability, identity, death and shame has evolved into a postmodern novel, in which the author confronts his characters. And the meta-fiction mode of the author's involvement in the novel also continues what Coetzee discussed in Shame? Crossing the line? Q: Shame transcends political, social and personal boundaries. Is it right to be slow? The author colonized? A kind of resistance.
When we talk about Annie. What shall we talk about while Frank is here?
Nathan. English german book
Shanghai literature and art publishing house
Li Tianqi
20 14-6-20
When we talk about Annie. What did we talk about when Frank was here? (Nathan? English and German, translated by Li Tianqi) Avoid the usual European and American perspectives, start from within the Jews, and use a hilarious sense of humor? Sometimes it's even inappropriate, but it's precisely because it's inappropriate that it brings amazing effects that make readers uneasy? And explore many serious, basic and slightly grand themes such as religion, identity, ethics and history with insightful moral stories.
3. Cat's cradle
Kurt. Vonnegut
Yilin Press
Liu Zhu also translated.
2006
Cat's cradle (Kurt? Vonnegut (translated by Liu Zhu) is the fourth novel of American postmodern novelist vonnegut. The narrator visited colleagues and relatives of Dr. Honick, the father of the atomic bomb, in order to write a book about what happened on the day of the atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima. The novel tells this absurd and terrible story with black humor, and reflects on how the abuse of science and technology has in turn destroyed mankind.
4. New York Trilogy
Paul. oersted
Zhejiang literature and art publishing house
Wen Min's Translation
2007-3
New York trilogy (Paul? Is it Oster's Paul? Oster's first novel. Looking for a missing person, tracing and solving a past problem? In three interrelated and unconventional metaphysical detective novels, the protagonists really have to face the mystery of their own identities.
5. Blind assassin
Margaret. By Atwood
Shanghai Translation Publishing House
Translated by Han Zhonghua
20 12-3- 1
Blind assassin (Margaret? Atwood (translated by Han Zhonghua) won the Booker Prize in 2000, which was Margaret? Atwood's most wonderful novels show her excellent ability to construct multiple narratives and multiple times.
Sixth and ninth floors
Salinger
People's Literature Publishing House
Translated by Li Wenjun/He Shangfeng
20 10.06
Nine Stories (by J.D. Salinger, translated by Li Wenjun and He Shangfeng) explores many themes such as marriage, adolescent growth, mother-child relationship, war, art, genius and even novel creation itself from a naive and absurd perspective. Rarely judge people, events or their causal logic, only present the story itself.
7. Free country
Naipaul
Nanhai publishing company
Translated by Zheng Wu
20 13- 1 1
The Free Country (by V.S. Naipaul, translated by Zheng Wu) won the Booker Prize 197 1 year, which consists of three short stories and two books. Travel diary? Form, surround? Freedom? This theme is in the colonial/post-colonial context, right? What is true freedom and how to get it? I deeply reflect on colonialism and discuss the identity myth of strangers far away from home.
8. About beauty
Zadi? Author: Smith
People's Literature Publishing House
Translation: Yang Peihua/Nie Qingfeng
2008- 10
About beauty (Zadi? Mr Smith, translated by Yang Peihua and Nie Qingfeng, is a new star in English literature. She is good at blending the narrative voices of different people and endows the novel with a modern charm with humor that often makes people laugh.
9. Strangers in Lahore Teahouses
Mohin? By Hamid
Shanghai Translation Publishing House
Translated by Wu Gang
2009- 1
Strangers in Lahore Teahouses (Mohin? Author Hamid, translated by Wu Gang) Is it later? 9? 1 1? The most wonderful novel. This novel, with only 178 pages, is a monologue, and the only narrative voice comes from a Pakistani who returned home after studying and working in the United States. Through his eyes, the novel examines a society that does not want to reflect on pain, and tells a heavy theme with a mirror-image love story, which mixes gender relations with identity, history, memory and religion, with a light narrative fable.
10, the feeling of ending
Julian? By Barnes
Yilin Press
Translation: Guo
20 12-7
The feeling of ending (Julian? Barnes 20 1 1 won the Booker Prize, which is a meditation on time (subjective time and objective time), history (especially personal history), death (and the only real philosophical problem Camus said: suicide) and narrative itself. This is also a book about memory, which reflects strongly on how people remember, how time affects memory, how memory affects time in turn, the unreliability of memory and how to write history, especially personal history.
China's best novel recommendation in the 20th century;
1. Balzac from Dai Sijie and Little Tailor from China.
2. Maqiao Dictionary by Han Shaogong.
3. empire of the sun of J.G. Ballard.
4. Mai Jia decoded it
5. Qiu Xiaolong's "When Red Be Black"
6. Wu's "Man with Compound Eyes".
7. Yiyun Li's The Wanderer
8. Min became Mrs. Mao
9. Lu Xun's The True Story of Ah Q and other China stories.
10. Yu Hua's "Living".
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12. Mo Yan's Red Sorghum
13. Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged
14. The First Quarter Moon by Chi Zijian.
15. Lao She's Cat Country
16. The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
17. Yan Lianke's Ding Cun Dream.
18. Ma Jian is a noodle manufacturer.
19. Sheng can be a northern girl.
20. Chen Xi's Book of Sin.
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