J.K. Rowling is the author of the bestselling Harry Potter series of seven books, published between 1997 and 2007, which have sold more than 450 million copies worldwide, are distributed in more than 200 territories, translated into 74 languages, and have been turned into eight blockbuster films. She has also written two small volumes, which appear as the titles of Harry’s schoolbooks within the novels. Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through The Ages were published by Scholastic Bloomsbury Children’s Books in March 2001 in aid of Comic Relief. In December 2008, The Tales of Beedle the Bard was published in aid of the Children’s High Level Group, and quickly became the fastest selling book of the year.
As well as an OBE for services to children’s literature, J.K. Rowling is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees including the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, France’s Légion d’honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, and she has been a Commencement Speaker at Harvard University. She supports a wide number of charitable causes through her charitable trust Volant, and is the founder of Lumos, a charity working to transform the lives of disadvantaged children.
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.
##「别把它看作是罗琳写的,仍然是一本值得一看的小说」是我的评价。先说我是一个骨灰级的哈迷,不得不承认,读这本书给罗琳的感情分占了很大一部分,因为作者的名字闪耀着坚持读了下来,但是终章部分的荡气回肠,让人读完不禁生出无限的思考。 如果想在这本书中找到读「哈利波...
评分##读完这本书已经好些天了,却一直不知道该如何下笔,来把缠绕在心里那些话说出来。这是一个沉重的故事,尤其是最后的几十页,读得尤为难过和压抑,却又感觉无能为力,被孤独感和无力感深深包围。我相信,每个人都能从这个故事里读出自己的情绪来,这个小镇上的人们,因为平凡才...
评分##心理细节是看点,罗琳写得很趁手,如拍电影,多人物多画面同时切入,可能不错。不过铺陈太多了,后三部分快马加鞭,又过于浓稠。没有预料到Krystal的命运,这个选题,走向也过于沉重。
评分##trying too hard that her words almost read draining. one step further and it would be a disgraceful showing-off.[0601 这本书应该出个删减版。
评分##读完这本书已经好些天了,却一直不知道该如何下笔,来把缠绕在心里那些话说出来。这是一个沉重的故事,尤其是最后的几十页,读得尤为难过和压抑,却又感觉无能为力,被孤独感和无力感深深包围。我相信,每个人都能从这个故事里读出自己的情绪来,这个小镇上的人们,因为平凡才...
评分##Only worshiping her achievement on HP series.
评分 评分##我想,成名作家最大的烦恼莫过于如何延续或是突破自我的创作生涯,他或她们不喜欢也不希望当自己的新作品呈现给读者时,所得到的反馈是令人失望的自我重复,渐而陷入江郎才尽的一潭死水,这对于任何一位作者而言都是不得不面对的挑战。显而易见,新作品担负的重任不仅要表现出...
评分##对人物的描写一如既往细腻,不过结尾有些狗血 恺蒂/文,刊于2012-10-21 东方早报·上海书评 对于过多宣传和运作的新书,我总是敬而远之。我的孩子年龄都小,是属于后《哈利·波特》的一代,虽然我女儿的 ipod 中也有一整套《哈利·波特》的有声书,但她没赶上那七部童书初版时的空前热闹。最近,罗琳新书《偶...
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