根据BBC文化频道的推荐，为大家推荐6月份不容错过的好书。本月你该把这些书放到你的书架上了。
1. Nick Laird, Modern Gods 《当代诸神》尼克•莱尔德
Laird's intimate and searing look at the aftereffects of violent conflict and religious fanaticism, revolves around two sisters facing personal crises. Liz, a New York-based academic, is preparing to travel to the rainforest of Papua New Guinea to make a BBC documentary about Belef, the charismatic woman leader of a cargo cult. But first she's back in her hometown of Ballyglass in Northern Ireland, for her sister Alison's second wedding. Before the honeymoon begins a newspaper headline reveals Alison's new husband's past as a member of the Ulster Freedom Fighters involved in a pub massacre. And now she is morally implicated. Half a globe away, Liz is drawn into Belef's rituals, with tragic consequences. Finely etched, impeccably structured, Modern Gods has the enduring echoes of a classic. (Credit: Viking)
莱尔德围绕着两姐妹身上发生的危机，近距离审视了暴力冲突和宗教狂热带来的恶果。利兹是来自纽约的学者，她准备前往巴布亚新几内亚的热带雨林为BBC制作一部关于魅力超凡的货物崇拜运动女领袖比利芙的纪录片。但是，利兹要先返回家乡巴利格拉斯——位于北爱尔兰的一个小村落，参加姐妹艾莉森的第二次婚礼。艾莉森开始度蜜月之前，一家报纸的头条新闻曝光了其新婚丈夫的过往，他曾是阿尔斯特自由战士组织的成员，这个组织与一起酒吧大屠杀有关。于是现在艾莉森也被牵连其中，遭到道德批判。而在地球的另一端，利兹被比利芙的宗教仪式所吸引，最终引祸上身。《当代诸神》文笔细腻，结构缜密，是一部耐人寻味的经典之作。（来源：维京出版社）
2. Victoria Redel, Before Everything 《最重要的事》维多利亚•雷德尔
Redel's new novel brings to mind Virginia Woolf's The Waves, with its chorus of distinctive voices sharing private perceptions along with their sustained collective experience. Five girls who dubbed themselves "the old friends" in sixth grade have carried their connection forward through decades, sharing tragedies and triumphs. In March 2013 they gather as Anna, the sparkplug of the group, decides to discontinue her cancer treatment after four remissions. She wants to say her goodbyes. In lyrical prose, Redel interweaves Anna's final days with echoes of the past – the day Helen accompanied a teenaged Anna to her abortion, the day of Ming's daughter Lily's brain surgery, the weddings, the divorces. The endings. "This, Helen thought, this is what Anna will do. She will teach us all how to do this thing we don't know how to do." (Credit: Viking)
雷德尔的新小说《最重要的事》让人想起弗吉尼亚•伍尔芙的《海浪》，它将不同的声音融合在一起，透过大家一直以来的共同经历分享每个人的认知。五个女孩在6年级时就互称“老相识”，她们同甘共苦，友情维持了几十年。2013年3月，她们之中的核心人物安娜在癌症反复四次后决定终止治疗，她希望向所有人道别，五个女孩因此重聚。在这部抒情散文中，雷德尔将安娜最后的时光与昔日的记忆交织在一起，海伦陪伴着年轻的安娜堕胎、明的女儿莉莉接受脑部手术、结婚、离婚，直到走向生命的终结。“海伦想，这就是安娜要做的。她将教会手足无措的我们如何面对死亡。”（来源：维京出版社）
3. Julia Fierro, The Gypsy Moth Summer 《舞毒蛾入侵的夏天》茱莉亚•菲耶罗
In June 1992, gypsy moths invaded Avalon Island, caterpillars stripping trees, covering houses and pavements, and raining down upon the residents. This is the summer, writes Fierro in her luminous second novel, when Leslie Day Marshall, "golden-haired prodigal daughter, returns with her black husband and brown children to claim her seat as First Lady." Leslie's son Brooks falls in love with Avalon's Maddie, the daughter of a wealthy mother and a working-class father. Their Romeo and Juliet story plays out as Grudder Aviation, the island's major employer, is blamed for a cluster of insidious cancers and for dozens of women, including Leslie, suffering repeated miscarriages. Fierro laces her lyrical tale of revenge and rebellion with gritty details, mythic settings and a nuanced sense of how class and racial divisions shape us. (Credit: St. Martins)
这部精彩的小说是菲耶罗的第二部小说。1992年6月，舞毒蛾入侵阿瓦隆岛，这种蛾虫吃光树木，覆盖在房子和人行道上，如雨点一般掉落在居民身上。菲耶罗写道，就在这个夏天，“叛逆的金发女儿莱斯利•玛西尔带着她的黑人丈夫，棕色皮肤的小孩们回来了，坐上第一夫人的位子。”莱斯利的儿子布鲁克斯爱上了岛上的姑娘麦蒂，她的妈妈是个富人，而爸爸是工薪阶级。阿瓦隆岛上的一群人在不知不觉中患上癌症，几十名女性经历多次流产，其中包括莱斯利，岛上的用工大户格路德飞机制造公司被指为罪魁祸首。菲耶罗通过栩栩如生的细节、神秘的背景设定以及对阶级种族分化如何塑造人类的细微刻画，书写了一部充满感情的复仇和反抗的故事。（来源：圣马丁斯出版社）
4. Gail Godwin, Grief Cottage 《悲伤小屋》盖氏•戈德温
Marcus is 11 when his mother dies; he never knew his father. Soon he's living with his mother's eccentric aunt Charlotte in her South Carolina beach cottage. She's painting a house built in 1804 dubbed the Grief Cottage after a family died there during Hurricane Hazel. That summer Marcus becomes himself, with the help of Charlotte, who drinks wine throughout the day in her painting studio and her empathetic friend Lachicotte Hayes. Marcus's grief and confusion are salved by the ocean, the sea turtles nesting nearby, and the secrets he learns about his family. But under the surface he's floundering. Soon he is obsessed with a mysterious boy he secretly visits daily at Grief Cottage. (Credit: Bloomsbury)
马库斯11岁时母亲去世了，而他从来不知道父亲是谁。不久，他搬到南卡罗莱纳州一处海滩边的小屋，和母亲的姑姑、性格古怪的夏洛特一起生活。夏洛特每天在画室里喝酒，她画了一座建于1804年的绰号叫“悲伤小屋”的房子。在飓风黑兹尔来临时，有一家人死在那里。那个夏天，马库斯在夏洛特和她善解人意的好友拉希科特•海因斯的帮助下恢复正常，但他的内心其实很慌乱。大海、附近筑巢的海龟、以及获知家庭的秘密安抚了马库斯的悲伤和困惑。很快，他就迷上了一个神秘的男孩，每天偷偷到悲伤小屋探望他。（来源：布卢姆斯伯里出版社）
5. Becky Aikman, Off the Cliff 《无与伦比》贝基•艾克曼
It's been over 25 years since the release of Thelma and Louise, the ground-breaking female buddy film hailed for its comedy, stark visual effects and shocking, off-the-cliff ending. Drawing upon some 130 interviews, Aikman tracks the film from 1987, when Callie Khouri from Paducah, Kentucky, a line producer on music videos, concocts the script, to Oscar night 1992, when six nominations yield Khouri an Academy Award. She weaves the film into Hollywood history, and gives a delicious blow-by-blow account, including Ridley Scott's efforts to find the location for that ending, and the early casting of Jodie Foster and Michelle Pfeiffer (in the roles that went to Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon), and Billy Baldwin as the sexy hitchhiker instead of a young newcomer named Brad Pitt. (Credit: Penguin Press)
距《末路狂花》上映已经过去超过25年，这部开拓性的女性犯罪电影以其幽默的剧情、对比鲜明的视觉效果以及精彩震撼的结局而备受好评。艾克曼在本书中参考了大约130次访谈，从1987年开始纪录这部电影，影片编剧卡莉•克里来自肯塔基州帕迪尤卡市，那时她还是一名音乐录影带的预算控制制片。1992年，该片获得了6项奥斯卡提名并为克里赢得了一座奖杯。她将这部电影与好莱坞历史交织在一起，还收录了一段段有趣而详尽的个人陈述，其中包括雷利•史考特为影片结尾找到合适场地而付出的努力，最初试镜的朱迪•福斯特和米歇尔•法伊弗（他们的角色最终由吉娜•戴维斯和苏珊•萨兰登饰演），以及替代“小鲜肉”布拉德•皮特出演性感搭车人的比利•鲍德温。
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