小夜曲： 音乐与黄昏五故事集 | Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro

本书是作者的第一部短篇集，全书以音乐为线索，由五个看似独立却又相互关联的故事组成。故事的主要人物都同音乐情牵相关：郁郁不得志的餐厅乐手，风光不再的过气歌星，孤芳自赏的大提琴手，为求成功被迫整容的萨克斯手等等，多是对音乐一往情深，对生活却满腹牢骚。情节或荒诞不经，或令人唏嘘，借音乐人生这个主题，表现了作者一贯的对现代人生存状态的反思：理想与现实的差距，命运的嘲弄，才华的折磨，以及庞大社会机器控制下被压抑的情感……

值得一提的是，书中大量出现的音乐家、歌手、歌名，绝大部分都是真实的，令人仿若置身于上世纪五十至八十年代的当红歌手和经典曲目之中；而音乐，恰是作者年轻时曾经涉足，并浸淫于其中，乃至立志从事的。文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/768.html

One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.  A once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life . . . A man whose unerring taste in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him . . . A struggling singer-songwriter unwittingly involved in the failing marriage of a couple he’s only just met . . . 文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/768.html

A gifted, underappreciated jazz musician who lets himself believe that plastic surgery will help his career . . . A young cellist whose tutor promises to “unwrap” his talent . . .  Passion or necessity—or the often uneasy combination of the two—determines the place of music in each of these lives. And, in one way or another, music delivers each of them to a moment of reckoning: sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes just eluding their grasp.  An exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past, Nocturnes reveals these individuals to us with extraordinary precision and subtlety, and with the arresting psychological and emotional detail that has marked all of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed works of fiction.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/768.html

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