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2015年馬上就要過完啦,年初給自己定的讀書計劃你完成了多少?小編非常慚愧,還有大部分沒有完成。愛閱讀的你一定比我強多了吧!囤書的機會又來啦!《華盛頓郵報》年度十大好書近日新鮮出爐!對于好書,希望這次我們不再錯過。
1.Between the World and Me BY TA-NEHISI COATES
《我和世界之間》,作者:塔-那西斯·科茨
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It is a riveting meditation on the state of race in America that has arrived at a tumultuous moment in America's history of racial strife.
在美國種族沖突出現(xiàn)前所未有的激烈動蕩的時刻,《我和世界之間》關(guān)于美國種族問題的闡釋是發(fā)人深省的。
What it does better than any other recent book is relentlessly drive home the point that "racism is a visceral experience..."To be black in the ghetto of Coates's youth "was to be naked before the elements of the world, before all the guns, fists, knives, crack, rape, and disease."
相較于其他新書,它更加殘酷地指出:"種族主義是一種發(fā)自內(nèi)心的體驗……"作為一名貧民窟的黑人,科茨的青春"在全世界面前變得赤裸裸,在槍支、拳頭、刀、爆炸、強奸和疾病面前手無寸鐵,毫無反擊之力"。
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A black man's stark, visceral experience of racism.
這本書是一名黑人對于種族主義發(fā)自肺腑的吶喊。
2.Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS BY JOBY WARRICK
《黑旗——伊斯蘭國的崛起》,作者:喬比·沃瑞克
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The Islamic State, whose radical Islamic warriors have inflicted their brutality across the globe from the Middle East to Paris, was founded as al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2004 by a Jordanian thug known by his nom de guerre, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
2004年,伊斯蘭國一個化名為阿布.穆薩布.扎卡維的約旦暴徒,在伊拉克建立了基地組織,如今,激進的伊斯蘭戰(zhàn)士在從中東到巴黎的全球范圍制造暴力。
IJoby Warrick, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, explains the importance of this gangster and analyzes his continuing influence on the Islamic State long after his death in 2006.
普利策獲獎記者喬比.沃瑞闡釋了扎卡維的重要性,分析了這個死于2006年的暴徒對伊斯蘭國所產(chǎn)生的持續(xù)影響力。
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Joby Warrick shows in painful but compulsively readable detail how a series of mishaps and mistakes by the U.S. and Jordanian governments gave this unschooled hoodlum his start as a terrorist superstar and set the Middle East on a path of sectarian violence that has proved hard to contain.
作者用充滿痛苦但又引人入勝的筆觸,揭示了美國政府和約旦政府所犯下的一系列災(zāi)難性錯誤,把一名天生的流氓造就為恐怖主義巨星,并使后來的中東陷于難以控制的宗派暴力事件當(dāng)中。
3.The Book of Aron BY JIM SHEPARD
《阿倫的書》,作者:吉姆·謝巴德
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In the summer of 1942, German soldiers expelled almost 200 starving children from an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and packed them into rail cars bound for Treblinka.
1942年夏,華沙猶太孤兒院里將近200位饑餓的兒童被德國士兵驅(qū)逐,裝進了開往特雷布林卡集中營的火車上。
Drawing on his imagination and dozens of historical sources, Shepard brings the Warsaw orphanage to life in this remarkable novel about a poor Polish boy and his friendship with the caretaker of the orphans, the pediatrician Janusz Korczak.
作者謝巴德發(fā)揮想象,結(jié)合大量史料,在這部著名的小說中再現(xiàn)了華沙孤兒院的生活,講述了一個貧窮的波蘭男孩和孤兒院看守、兒科醫(yī)生雅努什·科扎克之間的深厚友誼。
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Aron relays his world just as he experiencesthat his town slides into hell. Although relentless in its portrayal of systematic evil, "The Book of Aron" is nonetheless a story of such candor about the complexity of heroism that it challenges us to greater courage.
書中阿倫轉(zhuǎn)述的故事就仿佛是他的親身經(jīng)歷,他所在的小鎮(zhèn)陷入地獄。雖然《阿倫的書》對制度性罪惡的刻畫冷酷無情,但它也是一個講述英雄主義復(fù)雜性的坦率故事,賦予我們更多勇氣。
4.Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush BY JON MEACHAM
《命運與權(quán)力:喬治·W·H·布什的美國奧德賽》,作者:喬恩·米查姆
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Jon Meacham's new biography of George H.W. Bush accomplishes a neat trick.
喬恩·米查姆的老布什傳是一個巧妙的設(shè)計。
In Meacham's telling, Bush indeed lacked an ideological vision, was as overmatched in domestic policy as he was masterful on the global stage, benefited from his family's influence, and remains overshadowed "by the myth of his predecessor and the drama of his sons
' political lives."
在米查姆的講述中,布什確實缺乏一種意識形態(tài)視野,他對國內(nèi)政策的掌控能力遠(yuǎn)遜于對國際事務(wù)的處理能力,他得益于來自家庭的影響,卻至今仍活在前任的神話以及兒子戲劇性政治生涯的陰影之中。
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What Meacham so skillfully adds to this understanding — through extraordinary detail, deft writing and, thanks to his access to Bush's diaries, an inner monologue of key moments in Bush's presidency.
米查姆的細(xì)節(jié)描寫卓越,寫作方法巧妙,又有幸接觸到了老布什日記,由此很好地把握了他在任期內(nèi)關(guān)鍵時刻的內(nèi)心活動。
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