評論
打印
The year’s best books, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
年度最佳書籍，由《紐約時報》書評版編輯評選。
FICTION
虛構類
ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
《我們看不到的所有光明》(All the Light We Cannot See)
By Anthony Doerr
安東尼·多伊爾(Anthony Doerr)著
Scribner, $27.
斯克里布納出版社(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.
這是多伊爾的第二部小說，以輕快的章節和豐富的語言講述兩個人物的人生道路如何在“二戰”之后交匯：一個是被招募為納粹士兵的工程天才孤兒，另一個是加入抵抗組織的失明法國女孩。本書探討戰爭期間的生存、忍耐與道德困境，如同女主人公做鎖匠的父親為她打造的謎箱一樣精確而巧妙。它令人難忘，在敘事上也展現出引人入勝的技巧。
