如何評價《紐約時報》 2016 年度十大好書？
紐時原文：http://cn.nytstyle.com/culture/20161205/10-best-books-of-2016/
內媒報道：http://www.jiemian.com/article/1002943.html
非常美國知識分子的閱讀趣味。顯然它跟今天中國讀者的閱讀趣味偏差挺大的。
紐約時報評選的年度好書 並不代表
1.年度十大暢銷書（這個如果是暢銷書榜我都可以背下來）2.年度符合大眾審美的十大好書
本質上是紐約時代面對其目標觀眾所提供的書單，是一種雙向的討好關係。和國內報紙推薦馬雲自傳之類的一個道理。
ps，源地址把non fiction翻譯成了散文也真是基礎知識都沒有。如何評價《紐約時報》 2016 年度十大好書？
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特朗普問道：「《紐約時報》那幫靠編假新聞混日子的也有資格來評論人家寫的書？！」
中國老百姓答道：「嘿嘿，俺就崇拜您老的那份老實勁兒，早就不再看牛屎了（《紐時》），怕短二十年的陽壽。」
讀過when breath becomes air，我記得amazon有評論說touch my heart. 個人看法嗎，說句實話覺得很不舒服， 美國頂級醫療團隊已經儘力了，他還是死了，而且還是壯年時期
我當時買的時候是放在書店上面的，我沒看簡介直接買了，他媽第一頁就跟我說他死了，卧槽還我20塊美金
貌似歐美轉雞湯路線·····
你是在開玩笑嗎，今年十大好書哪裡是這十本，現在知乎上的人連牆都不會翻了？還有搜狐給的來源，是一個叫恆星英語的很簡陋的網站，也沒有給ny times的連接。。。SKIP TO CONTENT
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The year』s best books, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. DEC. 1, 2016
PhotoCreditRebecca Mock
- PhotoFictionThe Association of Small BombsBy Karan Mahajan
A finalist for the National Book Award, Mahajan』s novel — smart, devastating and unpredictable — opens with a Kashmiri terrorist attack in a Delhi market, then follows the lives of those affected. This includes Deepa and Vikas Khurana, whose young sons were killed, and the boys』 injured friend Mansoor, who grows up to flirt with a form of political radicalism himself. As the narrative suggests, nothing recovers from a bomb: not our humanity, not our politics, not even our faith.
Read our review of 「The Association of Small Bombs」
Viking. $26.
- PhotoFictionThe North WaterBy Ian McGuire
Propelled by a vision that is savage, brutal and relentless, McGuire relates the tale of an opium-addicted 19th-century Irish surgeon who encounters a vicious psychopath on board an Arctic-bound whaling ship. With grim, jagged lyricism, McGuire describes violence with unsparing color and even relish while suggesting a path forward for historical fiction. Picture a meeting between Joseph Conrad and Cormac McCarthy in some run-down port as they offer each other a long, sour nod of recognition.
Read our review of 「The North Water」
Henry Holt Company. $27.
- PhotoFictionThe Underground RailroadBy Colson Whitehead
With a conceit as simple as it is bold, Whitehead』s brave, necessary novel imagines a slave fleeing north on a literal underground railroad — complete with locomotives, boxcars and conductors. By small shifts in perspective, the novel (winner of the National Book Award in fiction) ventures to new places in the narrative of slavery, or rather to places where it actually has something new to say: about America』s foundational sins, and the ways black history is too often stolen by white narrators.
Read our review of 「The Underground Railroad」
Doubleday. $26.95.
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Fiction
The VegetarianBy Han Kang. Translated by Deborah Smith.In Han』s unsettling novel, a seemingly ordinary housewife — described by her husband as 「completely unremarkable in every way」 — becomes a vegetarian after a terrifying dream. Han』s treatments of submission and subversion find form in the parable, as the housewife』s self-abnegation turns increasingly severe and surreal. This spare and elegant translation renders the original Korean in pointed and vivid English, preserving Han』s penetrating exploration of whether true innocence is possible in a vicious and bloody world.
Read our review of 「The Vegetarian」
Hogarth. $21.
- Photo
Inspired by the notebooks and reminiscences of his grandfather, a painter who served in the Belgian Army in World War I, Hertmans writes with an eloquence reminiscent of W.G. Sebald as he explores the places where narrative authority, invention and speculation flow together. Weaving his grandfather』s stories into accounts of his own visits to sites that shaped the old man』s development as a husband and father as well as an artist, Hertmans has produced a masterly book about memory, art, love and war.
Read our review of 「War and Turpentine」
Pantheon Books. $26.95.
- PhotoNonfictionAt the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot CocktailsBy Sarah Bakewell
The author of the Montaigne biography 「How to Live」 has written another impressively lucid book, one that offers a joint portrait of the giants of existentialism and phenomenology: Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Jaspers, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger and a half-dozen other European writers and philosophers. Around the early 1930s, the story divides between the characters who eventually come out more or less right, like Beauvoir, and the ones who come out wrong, like Heidegger. Some of Bakewell』s most exciting pages present engaged accounts of complex philosophies, even ones that finally repel her. And the biographical nuggets are irresistible; we learn, for example, that for months after trying mescaline, Sartre thought he was being followed by 「lobster-like beings.」
Read our review of 「At the Existentialist Café」
Other Press. $25.
- PhotoNonfictionDark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical RightBy Jane Mayer
In 1980 Charles and David Koch decided they would spend vast amounts of their fortune to elect conservatives to all levels of government, and the world of American politics has never been the same. Mayer spent five years looking into the Koch brothers』 activities, and the result is this thoroughly investigated, well-documented book. It cannot have been easy to uncover the workings of so secretive an operation, but Mayer has come as close to doing it as anyone is likely to anytime soon.
Read our review of 「Dark Money」
Doubleday. $29.95.
- PhotoNonfictionEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityBy Matthew Desmond
In May 2008, Desmond moved into a Milwaukee trailer park and then to a rooming house on the poverty-stricken North Side. A graduate student in sociology at the time, he diligently took notes on the lives of people on the brink of eviction: those who pay 70 to 80 percent of their incomes in rent, often for homes that are, objectively speaking, unfit for human habitation. Desmond』s empathetic and scrupulously researched book reintroduces the concept of 「exploitation」 into the poverty debate, showing how eviction, like incarceration, can brand a person for life.
Read our review of 「Evicted」
Crown Publishers. $28.
- PhotoNonfictionIn the DarkroomBy Susan Faludi
When Faludi learned that her estranged and elderly father had undergone gender reassignment surgery, in 2004, it marked the resumption of a difficult relationship. Her father was violent and full of contradictions: a Hungarian Holocaust survivor and Leni Riefenstahl fanatic, he stabbed a man her mother was seeing and used the incident to avoid paying alimony. In this rich, arresting and ultimately generous memoir, Faludi — long known for her feminist journalism — tries to reconcile Steven, the overbearing patriarch her father once was, with Stefánie, the old woman she became.
Read our review of 「In the Darkroom」
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt Company. $32.
- PhotoNonfictionThe Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in BetweenBy Hisham Matar
Matar』s father, Jaballa Matar — a prominent critic of Muammar el-Qaddafi』s dictatorship — was abducted in exile, in 1990, and turned over to the Libyan regime. Whether Jaballa was among those killed in a prison massacre six years later is impossible to know; he simply disappeared. Hisham Matar returned to Libya in the spring of 2012, in the brief honeymoon after Qaddafi had been overthrown and before the current civil war, and his extraordinary memoir of that time is so much more besides: a reflection on the consolations of art, an analysis of authoritarianism, and an impassioned work of mourning.
Read our review of 「The Return」
Random House. $26.
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這……一本沒看過。今年凈顧著看科幻和金融去了。
國內有沒有類似媒體的年度十佳好書推薦？
書的腰封又有新東西可以寫了——《紐約時報》年度十大好書！
看到這樣的書，不光想撕掉腰封，還想撕開設計者的腦袋，看看裡面裝的啥子東西……估計又有一部分人看到書單然後跑去讀這些書了
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