Offill’s slender and cannily paced novel, her second, assembles fragments, observations, meditations and different points of view to chart the course of a troubled marriage. Wry and devastating in equal measure, the novel is a cracked mirror that throws light in every direction — on music and literature; science and philosophy; marriage and motherhood and infidelity; and especially love and the grueling rigors of domestic life. Part elegy and part primal scream, it’s a profound and unexpectedly buoyant performance.
|奧菲爾的第二部小說纖弱而結構精巧，由碎片、觀察、沉思與不同觀點組成，描繪出一段混亂的婚姻。這部小說既扭曲又可怕，像一面龜裂的鏡子，向四面八方折射光線——它涉及音樂與文學，科學與哲學，婚姻、母性與不忠；特別是家庭生活中的愛與嚴酷。它半是哀歌，半是原始的驚叫，既深沉，而又有著出人意料的輕快一面。 來源:可可英語 http://www.ccdyzl.cn/read/201412/348761.shtml