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The Crow Road
Iain Banks · 初版 1992 年
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为什么值得读
- 拥有极为荒谬难忘的经典小说开头第一句
- 开篇的惊人笔法与主角麦克霍恩的性格高度契合
- 通过充满幽默感的叙事手法引人入胜
从其精彩绝伦的开篇起，THE CROW ROAD 便当之无愧地被视作一部杰出的当代小说。“那是我祖母爆炸的那一天。我坐在火葬场里，听着 Hamish 叔叔平静的呼噜声与巴赫的 Mass in B Minor 相互呼应，我心想，似乎总是死亡才将我引回 Gallanach。” Prentice McHoan 回到了他那复杂却历久弥坚的苏格兰家族的怀抱。他对 McHoan 家族的过去、现在和未来充满疑问，同时也被深深的心事所困扰：主要是死亡、性、酒精、上帝以及非法药物……
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虽说我算不上他作品的铁粉，但 Banks 在《The Crow Road》里写下的开头绝对是我读过最难忘的之一。另外两个绝佳例子：William Gibson 的《Neuromancer》：“港口上空的天色犹如调到空频道的电视机画面。”还有 Herman Melville 的《Moby Dick》：“叫我以实玛利（Call me Ishmael）吧。”严格来说这两本都不是……
Even though I'm not a great fan of his work, Banks did write one of the most memorable opening lines ever in The Crow Road. Two other great examples: William Gibson's Neuromancer: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Herman Melville's Moby Dick: "Call me Ishmael." Neither strictly…
你出“多年以后 [...]”，那我跟注加码这句：“那一天，我祖母爆炸了。”——Iain Banks，《The Crow Road》。
I see your, “Many years later [...]" and raise you, “It was the day my grandmother exploded." Iain Banks, The Crow Road.
Iain Banks 在《The Crow Road》里用了这句巨搞笑的开篇第一句：“那一天，我祖母爆炸了。”
Iain Banks uses this as a hilarious opening line to The Crow Road: "It was the day my grandmother exploded."
……其实我倒更喜欢《Espedair Street》的开头几段，你可以去它的 wiki 页面上看：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espedair_Street 编辑补充——话虽如此，我觉得《The Crow Road》的开头也挺赞的，那种急于语出惊人的不成熟感特别贴合 Prentice McHoan 这个角色——不过你得读了更多书里内容才能体会到到底有多贴切。
…indeed I rather prefer the opening paragraphs of Espedair Street, which you can read on the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espedair_Street Edit - having said that, I think the start of The Crow Road is rather good as that immature desire to shock is rather appropriate for Prentice McHoan - but you can't really tell how appropriate that is until you've read more of the book.
“那一天，我祖母爆炸了。”绝妙的第一句，出自 Iain Banks 的《The Crow Road》。对我来说这事还加倍搞笑：之前有个朋友找我推荐有意思的书，后来我发现他自己看都没看，就直接寄给他祖母当生日礼物了。
“It was the day my grandmother exploded.” A fabulous first line, from The Crow Road by Iain Banks. Doubly good for me since a friend asked me for a recommendation for an interesting read, and I later discovered that he had sent it, unread, to his grandmother for her birthday.
它可以算虚构小说——也可以算不算——但 Iain Banks 的《The Crow Road》对我思考代际关系与社区的意义，以及它们如何随时间演变很有启发。祝你享受这段文学之旅。
It is -- and it isn't -- fiction, but "The Crow Road" by Iain Banks has been useful to me to reflect on what inter-generational relationships and communities mean and how they develop over time. Enjoy your literary journey.