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Amazon.com's no. 1 Book of the Year 2014
Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue - in Marilyn's case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James's case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the centre of every party. But Lydia is under pressures that have nothing to do with growing up in 1970s small town Ohio. Her father is an American born of first-generation Chinese immigrants, and his ethnicity, and hers, make them conspicuous in any setting.
When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, James is consumed by guilt and sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage. Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to make someone accountable, no matter what the cost. Lydia's older brother, Nathan, is convinced that local bad boy Jack is somehow involved. But it's the youngest in the family - Hannah - who observes far more than anyone realises and who may be the only one who knows what really happened.
Everything I Never Told You is a gripping page-turner, about secrets, love, longing, lies and race.
媒体推荐This intriguing tale of unhappy families will have you gripped from the opening line . . . No wonder it beat Hilary Mantel and Stephen King to win Amazon's book of the year (Stylist)
The mysterious circumstances of 16-year-old Lydia Lee's tragic death have her loved ones wondering how, exactly, she spent her free time. This ghostly debut novel calls to mind The Lovely Bones (Marie Claire)
If we know this story, we haven't seen it yet in American fiction, not until now... Ng has set two tasks in this novel's doubled heart-to be exciting, and to tell a story bigger than whatever is behind the crime. She does both by turning the nest of familial resentments into at least four smaller, prickly mysteries full of secrets the family members won't share... What emerges is a deep, heartfelt portrait of a family struggling with its place in history, and a young woman hoping to be the fulfillment of that struggle. This is, in the end, a novel about the burden of being the first of your kind-a burden you do not always survive (New York Times Book Review)
Ng constructs a mesmerizing narrative that shrinks enormous issues of race, prejudice, identity, and gender into the miniaturist dynamics of a single family. A breathtaking triumph, reminiscent of prophetic debuts by Ha Jin, Chang-rae Lee, and -Chimamanda Adichie, whose first titles matured into spectacular, continuing literary legacies (Library Journal, starred review)
Excellent . . . an accomplished debut . . . heart-wrenching . . . Ng deftly pulls together the strands of this complex, multigenerational novel. Everything I Never Told You is an engaging work that casts a powerful light on the secrets that have kept an American family together-and that finally end up tearing it apart (Los Angeles Times)
A powerhouse of a debut novel, a literary mystery crafted out of shimmering prose and precise, painful observation about racial barriers, the burden of familial expectations, and the basic human thirst for belonging... Ng's novel grips readers from page one with the hope of unraveling the mystery behind Lydia's death-and boy does it deliver, on every front (Huffington Post)
Cleverly crafted, emotionally perceptive . . . Ng sensitively dramatizes issues of gender and race that lie at the heart of the story . . . Ng's themes of assimilation are themselves deftly interlaced into a taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense (O, The Oprah Magazine)
[A] moving tale . . . of daughters for whom cultural disconnect is but the first challenge (Vogue)
Ng expertly explores and exposes the Lee family's secrets... These long-hidden, quietly explosive truths, weighted by issues of race and gender, slowly bubble to the surface of Ng's sensitive, absorbing novel and reverberate long after its final page. Ng's emotionally complex debut novel sucks you in like a strong current and holds you fast until its final secrets surface (Kirkus)
Wonderfully moving . . . Emotionally precise . . . A beautifully crafted study of dysfunction and grief...[This book] will resonate with anyone who has ever had a family drama (Boston Globe)
Ng moves gracefully back and forth in time, into the aftermath of the tragedy as well as the distant past, and into the consciousness of each member of the family, creating a series of mysteries and revelations that lead back to the original question: what happened to Lydia? . . . Ng is masterful in her use of the omniscient narrator, achieving both a historical distance and visceral intimacy with each character's struggles and failures . . . On the surface, Ng's storylines are nothing new. There is a mysterious death, a family pulled apart by misunderstanding and grief, a struggle to fit into the norms of society, yet in the weaving of these threads she creates a work of ambitious complexity. In the end, this novel movingly portrays the burden of difference at a time when difference had no cultural value . . . Compelling (Los Angeles Review of Books)
I couldn't stop reading Everything I Never Told You . . . the writing is so smooth and keenly observed. The portrait of each member of the Lee family, the exploration of their mixed-race issues and the search for the killer of their sister and daughter, Lydia, pulled at my heartstrings to the very end (Uwem Akpan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Say You’re One of Them)
[A] moving tale... of daughters for whom cultural disconnect is but the first challenge (Vogue)
Celeste Ng is the author of the novel Everything I Never Told You, which was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon's #1 Best Book of 2014, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications. Everything I Never Told Youwas also the winner of the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the ALA's Alex Award, and the Medici Book Club Prize, and was a finalist for numerous awards, including the Ohioana Award, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.
Celeste grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family of scientists. Celeste attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan (now the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan), where she won the Hopwood Award. Her fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere, and she is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize.
Currently, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
网友对Everything I Never Told You的评论
Lydia was dead, but they don't know it yet. “莉迪亚死了，但他们还不知道。” 小说Everything I never told you（中文版译名《无声告白》）用这一句开篇，有点莫名：谁是Lydia？她怎么死了，他们又是谁？就像社会版面的新闻一样具有耸人听闻的效应（例如：华裔花季少女神秘溺亡夺命湖），瞬间勾起了读者八卦的心。
然而，你以为这是本推理小说吗？那你就太天真了……
故事发生在上世纪七十年代，美国俄亥俄州的小镇，一个跨种族婚姻的家庭，丈夫James Lee是华人第二代移民，在本地大学历史系教授美国历史，妻子Marilyn是来自美国南部金发碧眼的白人、家庭主妇，大儿子Nath即将离家进入哈佛，二女儿Lydia是个成绩优异的高中生，母亲的最爱，小女儿Hannah还在念小学。然而这一天的早晨，二女儿莉迪亚却没有出现在早餐的餐桌上，起初大家不以为意，她也许已经去上学了。直到后来，他们才意识到他们的女儿，姐妹，失踪了。几天之后，警察在小镇的湖里发现了她的遗体：湖水很冷，尸体并未腐烂，但她的半边脸已经被鱼吃掉了。
莉迪亚似乎是自杀而死的。谁该对此负责呢？James和Marilyn开始审视过去与现在，而Nath则认定自己妹妹的死与隔壁的坏小子Jack脱不了关系，安静而总被忽视的"rest":"小妹妹Hannah似乎又知道一些所有人都不知道的秘密。这个家庭有父母双亲、儿女成群，却依然不怎么健全：James作为华裔终日无法摆脱异类感，Marilyn忘不掉自己没有实现的梦想和她家庭的阴影，两人将自己无法得到的全部寄托在女儿Lydia身上，对其他两个孩子漠不关心；被父母期望压得喘不过气的Lydia只能在哥哥那儿寻求安慰；哥哥Nath呢，则厌倦了这样的生活，渴望离家；小女儿Hannah很敏感，渴望被爱，却被所有人无视，只好在一旁不安地观察着家人。一家人生活在同一屋檐下，却仿佛是最亲近的陌生人。<br /><br />这是一部讲种族、移民、性别、身份认同与隔阂，致力走严肃文学路线作品。作者用细腻的笔触描绘了那些被扼杀的希望，隐隐滋生的绝望，点点积累的怨恨，所有那些没有说出口的真相。人物所有的爱与恨都是无声的，表面平静，底下波涛暗涌。<br /><br />作者想通过这个故事告诉我们：内心的渴望与外部的现实难以调和的冲突是痛苦的本源，如果不恰当表达并且自己主动寻求解决之道，将注定被人无视，对自己与他人都是伤害；而仅仅依赖他人恐怕也难以解脱，无论那是你的爱人还是你的家人。所以每个人都应该学会说出心里话，学会活出自己。<br /><br />作者还是很仁慈的。故事到了结尾，虽然没人完全明白那天晚上Lydia到底是怀着怎样的心思划着小船到湖的中心然而跌入水中，但每个人都以自己的方式得到了救赎。一个人死了，却可以换来这样的圆满，恐怕只会在小说里才会出现。<br /><br />这本书的可读性非常强，英文难度不高，也不算很长，精力比较好的读者， 大概坐一下午或者两个晚上就能读完。行文很美，尤其是写到幼年的Nath和Lydia，让人觉得好心痛。文笔略带匠气，手法似曾相识，但胜在叙事细腻真实，题材涉及广泛，几个主题也融合得很好。华裔作者Celeste Ng（伍绮诗）的第一本小说，就能把平常的家庭故事写得有悬念，有层次，抓人，很难得。<br /><br />很多人评论说这本书很压抑，读不下去，可我觉得作者是先抑后扬，因为结局是充满希望的：一家人解开了各自的心结，努力开始新生活，可见作者对人物的善意以及对人性的乐观态度。另外，本书有一条同性恋暗恋的线索埋藏在内，为主题服务。最后作者也隐约给了善意的暗示。在最后，并没有什么美好的东西被真正毁灭，反倒是苦难者终于得到拯救，Lydia的死更像是殉难。<br /><br />不完美，谈不上多深刻，却很感人。还是要推荐一下。读的是精装本，印刷质量不错。"
也是看了别人推荐买的，的确是比较轻的阅读。对于巩固英语水平来说是很好的选择，书不厚，已经看了2个章节。
情节吸引人，但背后的含义比较伤感。
反应了美国华裔面临的文化融合隔阂和个人性格原因最终导致的悲剧，但是感觉结果有些出乎意料又不太悲伤。
好贵啊，心在滴血的电子书，但是很好看，精彩，感人。
这书的第一句让人眼前一亮
然后就是像诺兰的《记忆碎片》那样前一章后一章的展开
每当细节饱和的时候，总会出来新线索
最后发现全书看起来散乱，其实都有联系
每一个细节都营造着压抑的气氛。仿佛自己也被冰冷的湖水包绕感到窒息。
每次，都会让我反思自己的人生。对别人期待的反抗确忽略了自己的真实需求。
中文版有：我们终其一生，就是要摆脱他人的期待，找到真正的自己。
为什么英文版没有这句话的原文？谁能靠谱的翻译一下？
包装得很好，纸张质量也不错。
亚马逊多次买书，共同的优点速度快，放心。共同的缺点保护比较差，每本书到手封面和书脊都有折角变形，希望在这方面能加强
送货很快，之前看了中文译版，这本买来送人的。书很轻便。
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