A Week in December
A Week in December
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十二月的一周
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2009
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S. Faulks
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伦敦，圣诞节前一周，2007年。在七天的时间里，我们跟随七个主要人物的生活：一个对冲基金经理试图实现他职业生涯中最大的交易;一个职业足球运动员最近从波兰来到这里;一个年轻的律师几乎没有工作，有太多的时间去投机;一个被伊斯兰理论引入歧途的学生;一个黑客书评人;一个沉迷于臭鼬和真人秀的学生;还有一位地铁司机，他的环线列车将这些人和无数其他人的生活连接在一起，每天循环。小说以大胆的技巧拼凑出现代城市生活的复杂模式和交叉点。贪婪，电子时代的非人性化影响和社会的分裂是这本野蛮幽默的书中涉及的一些主题。墙上的字有十英尺高，但人物拒绝看到它，继续聚会，好像明天是一场梦。塞巴斯蒂安福克斯不仅探讨了这群人的自我欺骗，而且还探讨了他们的希望和爱情。随着小说进入扣人心弦的高潮，他们被迫一个接一个地面对他们所居住的世界的真实本质。
London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days, we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality TV; and, a Tube train driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill, the novel pieces together the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life. Greed, the dehumanising effects of the electronic age and the fragmentation of society are some of the themes dealt with in this savagely humorous book. The writing on the wall appears in letters ten feet high, but the characters refuse to see it - and party on as though tomorrow is a dream. Sebastian Faulks probes not only the self-deceptions of this intensely realised group of people, but their hopes and loves as well. As the novel moves to its gripping climax, they are forced, one by one, to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit.