Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later, as he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved. Like "The Buddha of Suburbia", "Somet...
Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later, as he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved. Like "The Buddha of Suburbia", "Something to Tell You" is full-to-bursting with energy, at times comic, at times painfully tender. With unfailing deftness of touch Kureishi has created a memorable cast of recognisable individuals, all of whom wrestle with their own limits as human beings, haunted by the past until they find it within themselves to forgive.
1990年以首部小说《郊区佛爷》(TheBuddhaofSuburbia)获Whitebread文学奖。其后陆续推出小说《黑色唱片》(The Black Album,1995)、《爱在蓝色时代》(Lovein aBlueTime,1997)、《亲密》(Intimacy,1997),《整日午夜》(Midnight All Day,1999)、《加百列的礼物》(Gabriel’SGift,2001),迅速跃升为欧洲文坛新巨星。根据其小说改编的电影《亲密》获2001年柏林电影节金熊奖。他的最新长篇小说为2004年出版的《身体》(The Body)。
近乎平淡的笔触
必看书目之一,很多年前就有所耳闻,现在终于入手了
生动有趣的诠释了
需要细嚼慢咽