(两河之间)BETWEEN TWO RIVERS
出版时间:
1940-12
版次:
1
ISBN:
9780060578763
定价:
62.00
装帧:
精装
开本:
其他
纸张:
胶版纸
页数:
432页
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A beautifully resonant novel with a dazzling array of characters whose life stories are woven together into a breathtaking braid of love and memory.
Farro Fescu is the proud and observant concierge of Echo Terrace, a condominium in New York City. Passing through his lobby at all hours of the night and day is an exotic cross-section of the world's population: an Egyptian-born plastic surgeon who lives on the fifth floor and specializes in gender reassignment; a fighter pilot, on the eighth floor, who flew for Nazi Germany during World War II; an Iraqi spice merchant and the world-famous crazy-patch quilter with whom he's having an affair; the adulterer's son, dreaming of becoming an undertaker; and the widow whose apartment is a jungle Eden filled with a menagerie of specimens -- finches, canaries, a defanged cobra, a monkey named Joe -- that had been the subject of her dead husband's research.
Farro Fescu knows them all, knows all their secrets. He knows what happened to Yesenia Rivera, the nineteen-year-old staff housekeeper from Queens, when she took a fateful ride one evening on the Staten Island Ferry. He alone knows the truth behind the mysterious mishap that befell the fashion designer Ira Klempp, a resident of the twelfth floor. And he knows -- and would like to know much more -- about the alluring Mar#237;a Gracia Mo#241;o, sometime lover of Harry Falcon, the brilliant captain of industry who lives in the penthouse and is dying of cancer.
He is keenly attuned to the building and the people in it, yet he does not know what is in his own heart -- why, after a long, hard life, he is still alive, and still alone. Nor does he know what he will be capable of in the face of sudden, overwhelming tragedy.
As the narrative eye of Between Two Rivers floats from one apartment to another, revealing the characters' private histories and tracing the dramatic intersections of their daily lives, a lush tapestry of experience emerges. The story, in beautifully textured prose, is laced with wit and humor, subtle ironies and haunting echoes, and everywhere a profound sense of the resilience of the human spirit. PROLOGUE
Farro Fescu's End-of-the-World Friday Fantasy
PART ONE
A Green Dream of the Jungle
From Trance to Venial Sin
Mist on the Sepik River, Drums Beating
The Jamaica Avenue E1
The War Against the Ants
The Persistence of Blue
The Bench by the River
The Mournful Sound of the Train, Folding Over Him
The Return of Renata Negri
God Gives the Rain
A Wish List, a Hate List
The End-of-the-Century Memorial Quilt
PART TWO
The Blood Purge of 1934
Snow Falling, Eighteen Minutes Past Noon
Nora Dancing
The Whiteness of the Fields--No Crows, No Deer
The Long, Happy Death of Ira Klempp
The Chapel Near the Ferry
The Elephant Show
Orchids and Candy Hearts
The Fourth of July
The Bird
Four Adagios and a Love Letter
PART THREE
The Birthday of Muhta Saad
Black Smoke Rising
Papers in the Dust
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内容简介:
A beautifully resonant novel with a dazzling array of characters whose life stories are woven together into a breathtaking braid of love and memory.
Farro Fescu is the proud and observant concierge of Echo Terrace, a condominium in New York City. Passing through his lobby at all hours of the night and day is an exotic cross-section of the world's population: an Egyptian-born plastic surgeon who lives on the fifth floor and specializes in gender reassignment; a fighter pilot, on the eighth floor, who flew for Nazi Germany during World War II; an Iraqi spice merchant and the world-famous crazy-patch quilter with whom he's having an affair; the adulterer's son, dreaming of becoming an undertaker; and the widow whose apartment is a jungle Eden filled with a menagerie of specimens -- finches, canaries, a defanged cobra, a monkey named Joe -- that had been the subject of her dead husband's research.
Farro Fescu knows them all, knows all their secrets. He knows what happened to Yesenia Rivera, the nineteen-year-old staff housekeeper from Queens, when she took a fateful ride one evening on the Staten Island Ferry. He alone knows the truth behind the mysterious mishap that befell the fashion designer Ira Klempp, a resident of the twelfth floor. And he knows -- and would like to know much more -- about the alluring Mar#237;a Gracia Mo#241;o, sometime lover of Harry Falcon, the brilliant captain of industry who lives in the penthouse and is dying of cancer.
He is keenly attuned to the building and the people in it, yet he does not know what is in his own heart -- why, after a long, hard life, he is still alive, and still alone. Nor does he know what he will be capable of in the face of sudden, overwhelming tragedy.
As the narrative eye of Between Two Rivers floats from one apartment to another, revealing the characters' private histories and tracing the dramatic intersections of their daily lives, a lush tapestry of experience emerges. The story, in beautifully textured prose, is laced with wit and humor, subtle ironies and haunting echoes, and everywhere a profound sense of the resilience of the human spirit.
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目录:
PROLOGUE
Farro Fescu's End-of-the-World Friday Fantasy
PART ONE
A Green Dream of the Jungle
From Trance to Venial Sin
Mist on the Sepik River, Drums Beating
The Jamaica Avenue E1
The War Against the Ants
The Persistence of Blue
The Bench by the River
The Mournful Sound of the Train, Folding Over Him
The Return of Renata Negri
God Gives the Rain
A Wish List, a Hate List
The End-of-the-Century Memorial Quilt
PART TWO
The Blood Purge of 1934
Snow Falling, Eighteen Minutes Past Noon
Nora Dancing
The Whiteness of the Fields--No Crows, No Deer
The Long, Happy Death of Ira Klempp
The Chapel Near the Ferry
The Elephant Show
Orchids and Candy Hearts
The Fourth of July
The Bird
Four Adagios and a Love Letter
PART THREE
The Birthday of Muhta Saad
Black Smoke Rising
Papers in the Dust
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