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Hannah Tinti 著

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• 小说
• 犯罪小说
• 悬疑小说
• 盗窃
• 道德困境
• 人物塑造
• 情节曲折
• 文学小说
• 平装本
• 现代文学

出版社： Random House Publishing Group

ISBN：9780385337465

商品编码：19347189

包装：平装

出版时间：2009-08-11

页数：368

正文语种：英文

内容简介

Winner of the 2008 John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize * A Washington Post Best Book of 2008 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2008

Richly imagined and gothically spooky, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting talents writing today.

Twelve year-old Ren is missing his left hand. How it was lost is a mystery that Ren has been trying to solve for his entire life, as well as who his parents are, and why he was abandoned as an infant at Saint Anthony’s Orphanage for boys. When a young man named Benjamin Nab appears, claiming to be Ren’s long-lost brother, his convincing tale of how Ren lost his hand persuades the monks at the orphanage to release the boy and to give Ren some hope. But is Benjamin really who he says he is? As Ren is introduced to a life of hardscrabble adventure filled with outrageous scam artists, grave robbers, and petty thieves, he begins to suspect that Benjamin not only holds the key to his future, but to his past as well….

作者简介

Hannah Tinti's work has appeared in magazines and anthologies, including The Best American Mystery Stories 2003. Her short-story collection, Animal Crackers, has been sold in fifteen countries, and was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She is the editor of One Story magazine.


From the Hardcover edition.,,

精彩书评

"Every once in a while — if you are very lucky — you come upon a novel so marvelous and enchanting and rare that you wish everyone in the world would read it, as well. The Good Thief is just such a book — a beautifully composed work of literary magic."—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

"Darkly transporting ... [In] The Good Thief, the reader can find plain-spoken fiction full of traditional virtues: strong plotting, pure lucidity, visceral momentum and a total absence of writerly mannerisms. In Ms. Tinti’s case that means an American Dickensian tale with touches of Harry Potterish whimsy, along with a macabre streak of spooky New England history."—New York Times

"Tinti, like John Barth with his postmodern picturesque classic, The Sot-Weed Factor, has created one of the freshest, most beguiling narratives this side of Oliver Twist."—O: The Oprah Magazine

"Hannah Tinti has written a lightning strike of a novel—beautiful and haunting and ever so bright. She is a 21st century Robert Louis Stevenson, an adventuress who lays bare her character's hearts with a precision and a fearlessness that will leave you shaken." —Junot Díaz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critic’s Circle Award for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"The Good Thief's characters are weird and wonderful.... [It] has all the makings of a classic—a hero, a villain and a rollicking good tale set in 19th century New England about a good boy who gets mixed up with a lot of bad men.... All of that, along with its humor, ingenuity and fast pace, make The Good Thief compelling."—San Francisco Chronicle

“Ren lives every child's fantasy, to leave a mundane life for an adventure in which he discovers who he was supposed to be and who he could yet become…. [His] mischievous ways earned the character comparisons to Huck Finn and Oliver Twist. And the plot, which winds its way through a mousetrap factory and the memory of a family tragedy, certainly give him a literary playground in which to frolic.”—Associated Press

"The Good Thief is a dark, Dickensian fable filled with enough surprises to keep a reader turning pages long past midnight. Irresistibly strange, and just plain irresistible."—Karl Iagnemma

“The Good Thief is wry, wise, deeply felt and ingeniously plotted, a wonderful, riveting spin on the tale of abandoned boys gone bad, or good, or both. Move over Huck Finn and Oliver Twist, make room for Ren, The Good Thief's one handed but quick fingered and witted orphan, thief, hero — I loved him, and his book.” — Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

"The Good Thief is a book that deserves comparison to the work of classic authors like Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Dickens—not only because it's a remarkable piece of work, but also because it reminded me of what it used to be like, when I was a kid, to be truly engrossed in a book. You lift your head and hours have passed, and you realize that you've been utterly drawn into a world that is as vivid and real as your own. A masterful achievement."—Dan Chaon, author of National Book Award finalist Among the Missing, and You Remind Me of Me

“The Good Thief is a magical book. Everything worth writing about is in it: love, death and—more than anything else—family. ?I wish I'd written it.”—Daniel Wallace author of Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician

"Hannah Tinti writes with uncommon grace and stunning insight. Her quirky tribe of outcasts will break into your dreams and steal your spirit. Surrender to them! Let your heart be broken! Only then will you know the tender thrill of their wild companionship. The Good Thief is pure delight. When you wake from this dream, you will wake bedazzled".—Melanie Rae Thon, author of Iona Moon and Sweet Hearts

“The key to Tinti's success with this novel is the constant tension between tenderness and peril, a tension that she ratchets up until the final pages…. [With] enough harrowing scrapes and turns to satisfy your inner Dickens.”—Washington Post Book World

“A debut novel so rich that you'll hope it becomes the first in a series…. Part coming-of-age tale and part pure adventure, The Good Thief evokes Charles Dickens with its blend of humor, social commentary and poignancy.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Tightly plotted, unmannered, irresistible. Tinti writes in a lean, pitch-perfect prose that grabs the reader's mind and won't let go. The incidents she relates are dark and grim, but the telling leaves room for humanity and humor.”—Orlando Sentinel

“Difficult to put down…A cavalcade of chase scenes, suspenseful moments and revelations.”—Seattle Times

“The kind of story that might have kept you reading all day when you were home sick from school…. Writing for adults while keeping to a child’s perspective isn’t easy, and Tinti makes it look effortless.”—New York Times Book Review

“Tinti secures her place as one of the sharpest, slyest young American novelists."—Entertainment Weekly (A-)

“[A] striking debut novel…Unfolds like a Robert Louis Stevenson tale retold amid the hardscrabble squalor of Colonial New England.? The sheer strangeness of the story is beguiling…Good fun.”—The New Yorker

“A very good book indeed…Reminds you why you fell in love with reading in the first place…Tinti’s imaginative powers…reacquaint us with our own.? And that’s a gift to be cherished…”—Boston Globe

“[A] dark but nimble variation on that favorite 19th-century literary trope, the woeful orphan story…. Ren becomes the surprising moral center of a colorful band of misfits and grave robbers. His sentimental education about what it means to be a ‘good’ boy makes for a Dickens of a tale.”—USAToday.com

"In her highly original debut novel, [Tinti] renders the horrors and wonders she concocts utterly believable and rich in implication as she creates a darkly comedic and bewitching, sinister yet life-affirming tale about the eternal battle between good and evil." —Booklist, starred review

“Ren, with his love for religion and penchant for thievery, is immediately likeable…. A novel full of scams, shams and underhanded deals and populated by hustlers, thieves and grave robbers.”—Publishers Weekly

“Marvelously satisfying...rich with sensory details, surprising twists and living, breathing characters to root for." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“Bracing—and embracing … etches Hannah Tinti’s name on the literary map.”—Go: AirTran Magazine


From the Hardcover edition.,

《暗影中的低语：一个关于救赎与背叛的迷人故事》 作者：艾莉森·布莱克伍德 出版信息：[虚构出版社名称]，[虚构出版年份]年 一、 故事背景与引人入胜的开端 《暗影中的低语》将读者带入一个被工业革命的浓烟和维多利亚时代上流社会的虚伪面纱所笼罩的迷雾之都——19世纪末的伦敦。这座城市在光鲜亮丽的街区之下，潜藏着错综复杂的贫民窟、秘密结社和不为人知的权力交易。 故事的主角，伊莱亚斯·文森特，并非出身于贵族，而是一个在白教堂区艰难求生的孤儿。他拥有一双能洞察人心的锐利眼睛和一双能悄无声息穿梭于城市屋顶的灵巧双手。伊莱亚斯并非传统意义上的“恶棍”，他更像是一个“必要之恶”的执行者，用盗窃的手段来维持自己和少数几个他庇护的孤儿的生存。他的目标通常是那些通过压榨底层人民积累财富的腐败商人或心术不正的贵族。 故事始于一个看似寻常的夜晚。伊莱亚斯受雇于一位神秘的中间人，去盗取一份据说藏在萨默塞特宫一位没落贵族宅邸中的文件。这份文件据称事关一桩被掩盖了数十年的家族丑闻。然而，当伊莱亚斯成功潜入并拿到文件时，他发现这并非简单的财务记录，而是一份记载着一个庞大秘密社团——“奥菲斯之眼”——核心成员名单的羊皮卷轴。这个组织的手已经伸向了议会、警局的最高层，甚至王室的边缘。 这次盗窃行动彻底打破了伊莱亚斯原本小心翼翼维持的平衡。他不仅成为了“奥菲斯之眼”的头号追捕目标，更意外地卷入了一场关乎城市命运的巨大阴谋之中。 二、 复杂的人物群像与深刻的内心挣扎 小说的魅力很大程度上来自于其塑造的栩栩如生的人物。 伊莱亚斯·文森特： 他是混乱中的一个锚点。他内心深处渴望正直和安稳，但他生存的法则却要求他不断地触碰黑暗。他的挣扎在于，为了保护无辜者，他必须变得比那些他所反抗的人更具“欺骗性”。他对“正义”的理解是灵活的，实用主义至上，但这使得他与传统道德观产生了剧烈的冲突。 塞拉菲娜·莫兰特： 一位出身于爱尔兰移民家庭的独立记者。她以笔为剑，致力于揭露伦敦上层社会的黑暗面。塞拉菲娜与伊莱亚斯的关系是故事中最引人入胜的张力来源。她起初视伊莱亚斯为一个可以利用的线人，一个她可以用来敲开权力堡垒的工具。但随着两人合作的深入，她开始正视伊莱亚斯行为背后的道德困境，并逐渐被他身上那种矛盾的英雄气概所吸引。她的理性与他的本能交织，催生出一段充满危险与试探的禁忌之恋。 亚瑟·克劳利勋爵： “奥菲斯之眼”的实际操纵者。他是一位看似温文尔雅的慈善家，但在他的华丽外表下，是冷酷无情、对权力极度渴望的野心家。克劳利勋爵是那种能将最丑陋的交易包装成最体面的商业合作的典型代表。他代表着体制内腐败的极致，也是伊莱亚斯必须面对的最强大的对手。 “影子”杰克： 曾是伊莱亚斯的导师，一位传奇的盗贼，多年前离奇失踪。他的失踪是伊莱亚斯心中一根拔不掉的刺。随着调查的深入，伊莱亚斯发现“影子”的消失与“奥菲斯之眼”的崛起有着千丝万缕的联系，这使得他的个人复仇与拯救城市的任务紧密地绑在了一起。 三、 阴谋的层层剥开与悬念的迭起 小说结构紧凑，悬念设置高明。伊莱亚斯和塞拉菲娜的调查并非一帆风顺，每一次接近真相的尝试，都伴随着更深的陷阱。 “奥菲斯之眼”的最终目标并非单纯的财富，而是对英国政治格局的根本性重塑，通过控制关键的港口资源和议员的投票权，他们计划将国家引向一场由他们主导的、旨在巩固寡头统治的“新秩序”。 为了阻止他们，伊莱亚斯必须利用他最擅长的技能——潜入、伪装和窃取。他不再是为了生存而偷窃，而是为了揭露真相而冒险。故事的高潮发生在一年一度的皇家慈善晚宴上，届时，“奥菲斯之眼”计划进行一项具有决定性意义的交易。伊莱亚斯需要渗透到戒备森严的黑水庄园，不仅要拿回那份足以将整个组织一网打尽的证据，还要确保塞拉菲娜能够将这些证据在公众面前曝光。 四、 主题的探讨：道德的灰色地带与救赎的代价 《暗影中的低语》深入探讨了道德哲学的灰色地带。当法律本身被腐败分子所掌控时，“非法”的行为是否能成为真正的正义？伊莱亚斯以犯罪手段行侠仗义，他是否能逃脱被社会和自我道德审判的命运？ 小说对身份认同也进行了细致的刻画。伊莱亚斯需要不断地扮演不同的角色——街头小偷、贵族仆人、乃至受雇的杀手——以生存下去。他最终能否找回那个在白教堂区长大的、纯粹的“伊莱亚斯”，还是会被他所扮演的角色所吞噬？ 此外，小说也毫不留情地批判了维多利亚时代光鲜外表下的社会结构性不公。那些高耸的烟囱背后，是无数家庭的贫困和绝望，而“奥菲斯之眼”正是利用了这种绝望来巩固他们的统治。 五、 语言风格与阅读体验 艾莉森·布莱克伍德的文笔华丽而富有张力。她将哥特式的阴郁氛围与紧凑的谍战节奏完美结合。对19世纪伦敦街道、气味、光影的细腻描绘，让读者仿佛能亲身感受到煤灰的气息和雨水打在石板路上的声音。动作场面紧张刺激，而人物对话则充满了机锋和潜台词，每一次交锋都可能决定生死。 《暗影中的低语》不仅是一部扣人心弦的悬疑小说，更是一部关于人性抉择、关于在绝望中寻找微光的深刻寓言。它迫使读者思考：为了更高的善，我们愿意付出多大的代价，去触碰并拥抱那些黑暗的工具？

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我很少会为了读一本书而牺牲睡眠时间，但这本书成功地做到了。它的魅力在于那种潜藏在平静表象下的暗流涌动。情节推进得非常扎实，每一个事件的发生都有其必然性，没有那种为了制造戏剧冲突而硬拗的感觉。最让我印象深刻的是作者对“环境对性格的塑造”这一主题的处理。小镇本身就像是一个活生生的角色，它的规矩、它的秘密，无形中塑造了每一个留在这里的人的品格。你甚至能从人物说话的腔调、他们处理小事的方式中，感受到那种地域特有的固执和韧性。这种沉浸感是很多当代小说所欠缺的，它更注重的是“氛围的营造”而非单纯的“事件的堆砌”。我读完后，感觉自己好像真的在那样的年代、那样的困境中生活了一段时间，那种久久不能散去的情绪，是衡量一本好书的重要标准。它让你思考的不是故事的结局，而是故事之外的人生。

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天呐，这本书简直是把我彻底吸进去了！我是在一个朋友的强烈推荐下去买的，本来还抱着试试看的心态，没想到完全超出了我的预期。故事的开篇就带着一股子神秘的、老旧小镇的气息，那种阳光下尘土飞扬的感觉，仿佛能穿过纸页飘到我的鼻子里。作者对环境的描摹简直是一绝，每一个角落，每一条小巷，都充满了生命力，让人感觉自己就站在主角身边，一起呼吸着那里的空气。我特别喜欢那种细微的、不经意间流露出的对人性的洞察，主角在面对困境时那种挣扎和选择，不是简单的黑白分明，而是充满了灰色地带的复杂和纠结。我读到一半的时候，甚至停下来好几次，只是为了回味其中某一句关于“时间”或者“记忆”的描写，感觉那些句子本身就带着一种诗意，非常耐人寻味。而且，节奏的把控也极其到位，该慢的时候像老式留声机转速一样缓缓流淌，让人沉醉；该快的时候，那种紧张感和压迫感是实实在在的，让我忍不住加快了翻页的速度，生怕错过任何一个关键的转折。总的来说，这是一次非常酣畅淋漓的阅读体验，它不仅仅是一个故事，更像是一次深入灵魂的探险。

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坦白说，这本书的文学性非常高，我甚至在某些段落需要放慢速度，细细品味那些措辞的精准度。它不像快餐读物那样追求即时的刺激，而是更像一壶需要时间慢慢泡开的好茶，初尝平淡，回味无穷。作者的语言风格有一种古典的韵味，用词考究，句式错落有致，读起来非常悦耳。特别是关于“选择”这个核心议题的探讨，书中描绘了太多关于“牺牲”和“成全”的场景，没有一个角色是完全高尚或完全邪恶的，他们都在时代的洪流中努力抓住一丝属于自己的东西。这种对人性的复杂性的描绘，让故事的层次一下子就丰富了起来。我特别喜欢那种“言有尽而意无穷”的留白，作者把很多解释权交给了读者，让每个人都能在其中找到自己与故事的连接点。看完后，我立刻向我的文学小组推荐了这本书，大家一致认为它具备了长期被讨论的价值。

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这本书的叙事结构，说实话，一开始让我有点摸不着头脑，但很快就被它的精巧设计给折服了。它不是那种线性叙事，而是像一个被打散的拼图，需要读者自己去碎片中寻找线索，将真相慢慢拼凑起来。我尤其欣赏作者处理“回忆”的方式，那些闪回和现在的事件交织在一起，处理得非常自然，没有丝毫的刻意感，反而增强了悬念和宿命感。每一个人物的动机都被挖掘得非常深，即便是配角，也都有着自己完整而令人信服的背景故事，让人不得不思考，在我们日常生活中，是不是也忽略了身边那些“不起眼”的人的内心世界。阅读过程中，我发现自己不断地在猜测接下来的走向，但每一次的预测似乎都被作者用一种更高明的、更符合逻辑的方式给推翻了，这种智力上的博弈感，简直让人欲罢不能。它探讨的主题很宏大，关于道德的界限、关于救赎的可能性，但作者没有用说教的方式去呈现，而是通过人物的命运让人自己去体会，这种“润物细无声”的功力，绝对是大家的手笔。

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这本书最成功的一点，我认为在于它构建了一个极其真实可信的“世界观”。它不是建立在奇幻的设定上，而是基于对现实生活细致入微的观察和提炼。从人物之间的微妙的权力关系，到他们如何应对生活中的不公与压力，都处理得非常写实。每一次冲突的爆发都仿佛是蓄谋已久，水到渠成的结果，这让整个故事的逻辑链条异常坚固。我不是一个容易被情节带着走的读者，我更看重内在的逻辑支撑，而这本书在这方面做得无可挑剔。它成功地将一个看似简单的人物困境，延展到了一个关于社会结构和个人命运的深刻探讨。我甚至开始对着书中的场景进行脑补，如果是我处在那个位置，我会做出怎样的选择？这种强烈的代入感和反思性，才是真正优秀文学作品的标志。读完后，那种满足感不是“终于看完了”的解脱，而是“我完整地体验了一个人生”的充实。