nunia
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作者：nunia 在 寒山小径 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
A seductive love story set in contemporary Shanghai, The Red Thread intertwines the lives of two pairs of lovers across the centuries. Shen is a young, American-educated appraiser for an auction house. Ruth is a gifted Australian artist he meets, it seems, by chance. And Han is a beautiful, enigmatic woman who both facilitates and complicates their relationship. Yet all three lives mysteriously mirror characters described in a rare, eighteenth-century book that comes up for auction–a book that is missing its final chapters. As the characters in the original tale move toward an ominous, unknown end, Shen’s search for the missing pages goes from curiosity to desperation as he hopes to discover–and perhaps alter–his fated future with Ruth.
Author Nicholas Jose has taken one of China’s most cherished and elegant love stories, Six Chapters of a Floating Life, and seamlessly woven it into the glittering, high-rise world of present-day Shanghai. The Red Thread is an unforgettable, evocative novel of love and destiny, art and beauty, and the passion that ties one person to another forever.
"He thought of the red thread of passion wound tightly around the fingers of the Old Man of the Moon, the god of couples. It was the cord that bound one heart to another ? the red thread of ever renewing love."
An intimate, lyrical story about the ties that bind people together, past and present, East and West, physical and spiritual.
Praise for The Red Thread:
'The Red Thread is so textually rich it's almost as if three novels have been rolled into one. Simultaneously, a simple romance with an exotic setting, a postmodern parody of a Chinese literary classic?, Jose's novel is also a spiritual journey.' - Justine Ettler, The Observer
'This is a book of subtle contrasts and exquisite brush strokes. Its unforced sense of mystery derives not from whimsy but from the subtle substance of experience.' - Tom Deveson, The Sunday Times
'If anything, Jose's reputation will have been enhanced by this latest novel: a love story set in Shanghai that combines lucid and poetic storytelling with a near-thrillerish pace.' - Michael Thompson-Noel, The Financial Times
'In Jose's stylish romance, modern-day Shanghai is a forward-looking economic empire, yet still a city consumed by its past? Jose's use of Shen Fu's memoir is quirky and inventive? his tale lingers well after the last page.' - Publishers Weekly (U.S.)
'Jose has made deft and bold use of this incomplete text by reproducing and improvising extracts from it into his own, to draw parallels between the Chinese pair and their contemporary successors, and between their menage a trois and its avatar, and to thread the completed past with the incomplete present?.' - Leong Liew Geok, Singapore
'The Red Thread is vagabondage with Ming and Qing props, at once poised and elegant, worldly and whimsical.' - Foong Ling Kong, Sydney Morning Herald
'The Red Thread is skillfully built upon an original conceit: it transposes into a brutally modern setting–today's Shanghai–the characters and situations of a delicate Chinese memoir pertaining to the late 18th century, the famous Six Chapters of a Floating Life by Shen Fu. And it invents a new conclusion, since the original has lost its ending? In fact this new novel works very effectively on its own terms and will touch even those readers who care little for, or know nothing of, its Chinese background. The elegance of a tour de force always rests upon a deceptive appearance of effortlessness? Only those who are already acquainted with Six Chapters can fully measure the ingenuity and sophistication of The Red Thread, for they alone know how bold a challenge Jose took up when he borrowed Shen Fu's brush and gave him the chance of a second life.' - Pierre Ryckmans, The Australian's Review of Books
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