我辈孤雏
When We Were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro · 初版 2000 年
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“你很少能读到一本如此让你确信它拓宽了小说可能性的作品。”——《Sunday Times》 20世纪30年代的英格兰。克里斯托弗·班克斯（Christopher Banks）已成为全国最著名的侦探，他侦破的案件是伦敦社交圈津津乐道的话题。然而，有一桩未解悬案始终萦绕在他心头：幼年时期父母在老上海的神秘失踪。穿梭于两次世界大战之间的伦敦与上海，《When We Were Orphans》是一部关于记忆、阴谋与寻根归途的杰出小说。
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……可以说每一部都极为出色。罗莎琳·兰多尔朗读的《莫失莫忘》（Never Let Me Go）尤其令人动容。石黑一雄在多部小说中采用的第一人称视角，跟这种形式简直是天作之合。《上海孤儿》（When We Were Orphans）通常不被视作他的上乘之作，但作为一部“口述故事”，我觉得它极其引人入胜。
…that they've all been excellent. Rosalyn Landor's Never Let Me Go was particularly moving. The first-person perspective used by Ishiguro in several of his novels lends itself very well to the format. When We Were Orphans isn't typically considered one of his stronger works, but as a "told tale" I found it fascinating.
……不过我真的太爱石黑一雄了。他的那些带有超现实色彩的小说总是能打动我。我极其喜欢他摆弄不可靠叙述者的手法，比如在《长日将尽》、《远山淡影》和《上海孤儿》里那样。他展现出他们身上的缺陷，有时甚至是自毁倾向，但我们（或者说我）依然能与他们共情。《长日将尽》的结尾每次都让我深受触动，几乎落泪。那位管家在……
…me, but I simply love Kazuo Ishiguro. His surreal novels are always moving to me. I absolutely love how he plays with unreliable narrators, like in "The Remains of the Day", "A Pale View of Hills" and "When We Were Orphans". He shows how they are flawed, sometimes self-sabotaging, but we (or rather, I) still empathize with them. The ending of "The Remains of the Day" always moves me, almost to tears. How the butler, having…
……这种“反面寓意”至今仍在指引着我。顺便说一句，说到石黑一雄，虽然我喜欢《长日将尽》（RotD），但他别的作品我都无感。我不喜欢《莫失莫忘》（尽管它广受好评），也不喜欢《被掩埋的巨人》和《上海孤儿》。诚然，我还没读过《浮世画家》就是了。
…anti-message guides me today. p.s. with regards to Ishiguro, despite liking RotD, I didn't care for any of his other works. I didn't like Never Let me Go (which was highly acclaimed), nor the Buried Giant, nor When we were Orphans. Admittedly I have not read "An Artist of the Floating World".