寄居者

It is the latest masterpiece of Yan Geling in 2009, continuing the author's unique narrating style, reproducing the extravagant and flatulent life in Shanghai during the bloody war age. There are Asians, Europeans, Americans, Shanghai and Hakka people, none of them can escape the fate of living away from home. Big Shanghai, small world, love and faith, loyalty and betraying, self-finding and self-lost are all expressed in this book. It rethinks history and discusses the value of human nature in acceptable and understandable way of modern people, meaning Chinese writers handle the skills of combining literature, history and reality skillfully. Although her writing style is full of foreign flavor, it is also flexible and rigorous and attractive.本书是作者严歌苓2009年最新力作，小说延续了作者独特的自述式与视觉化的叙事风格，还原了血淋淋的战争年代里醉生梦死、灯红酒绿的上海。故事中有亚洲人欧洲人美洲人，上海人苏北人客家人，在血淋淋的战争年代里，没有人能逃脱“寄居”的命运。大上海，小世界——爱情与信仰，忠义与背叛，自我追寻与自我迷失，都在书中展现。本书是一部即具备反思历史、探讨人性价值，又拥有现代人容易接受和理解的表现手法的作品。它的出现，意味着中国作家开始掌握到了将文学与历史和现实巧妙结合的技巧。作者严歌苓的写作风格很洋气，但并非完全西式的，她的文字严谨中有着拿捏自如的灵活，具有奇妙的阅读吸引力。