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一个女人的史诗
本书讲述一个生存在“爱我的人我不爱，我爱的人不爱我”的情感矛盾与红色历史双重困境中的女性——田苏菲，以其挚爱一生的经历表现了一个女人在爱中的无奈及不甘。小菲是个活泼纯净的美丽少女，在文工团里深受都汉首长的宠爱。当她遇到出身于上海世家、有着艺术家气质的老革命兼文人欧阳萸时，一种近乎着魔的爱情攫住了她的心。尔后三十多年，小菲从她最灿烂的青春，到渐归于平淡的中年，始终如一地痴爱着不断出轨、意欲寻求红颜知己的丈夫欧阳萸。从解放前夕至 “文革”结束，历史风云变幻，小菲在舞台上演着各种各样的时代人物，而她自己却始终置身于大历史之外，在一个女人的小格局里左冲右突，演绎着无怨无悔的情感史。尖锐的文字与出色的幽默谐谑使作品不无喜剧成分，但读来却让人笑中含泪、心酸不已。
- GenresChinese Literature
326 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2006
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About the author
Geling Yan
83 books231 followersGeling Yan (嚴歌苓) is one of the most acclaimed novelists and screenwriters writing in the Chinese language today and a well-established writer in English. Born in Shanghai, she served with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) during the Cultural Revolution, starting at age twelve as a dancer in an entertainment troupe.
After serving for over a decade with the PLA (including tours in Tibet and as a war correspondent during the Sino-Vietnam border conflict), Ms. Yan was discharged with a rank equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel. She published her first novel in 1986 and ever since has produced a steady stream of novels, short stories, novellas, essays and scripts. Her best-known novels in English are The Secret Talker, published by HarperCollins; Little Aunt Crane published in the UK by Random House affiliate Harvill Secker; The Flowers of War, published in the U.S. by The Other Press and elsewhere by Random House's Harvill Secker; The Banquet Bug (The Uninvited in its UK edition - written directly in English); and The Lost Daughter of Happiness, (translated by Cathy Silber) both published by Hyperion in the US and Faber & Faber in the UK. She has also published a novella and short story collection called White Snake and Other Stories, translated by Lawrence A. Walker and published by Aunt Lute Books.
Many of Geling Yan's works have been adapted for film and television, including internationally distributed films Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (directed by Joan Chen) and Siao Yu (directed by Sylvia Chang; produced by Ang Lee). Chinese director Zhang Yimou made The Flowers of War, a big-budget film based on her work set during the 1937 Rape of Nanking, starring Academy Award winning actor Christian Bale; Coming Home 归来, based on her novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi 陆犯焉识, and One Second 一秒钟, also based on that novel.
Ms. Yan has also written numerous scripts based on her own and other authors' work, both in English and Chinese, including a script for a biopic on the iconic Peking opera star Mei Lanfang for director Chen Kaige (released as Forever Enthralled 梅兰芳) starring Leon Lai and Zhang Ziyi. She wrote the script for Dangerous Liaisons 危險關係, a Chinese-language film directed by South Korean director Hur Jin-ho and starring Zhang Ziyi, Jang Dong Gun and Cecilia Cheung. Her novel Fang Hua 芳华 is the basis a film of the same name (English title Youth) directed by Chinese director Feng Xiaogang 冯小刚. Her novel A City Called Macau 妈阁是座城 was made into a film directed by Li Shaohong 李少红, released in 2018.
Geling Yan a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and of France's Société des Gens de Lettres. She is affiliated with the Hollywood screenwriters' union, Writers' Guild of America, west, and is a former member of the Chinese Writers' Association (中国作家协会).
Geling Yan went to the United States at the end of 1989 for graduate study. She holds a Master's in Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Columbia College, Chicago. To date she has published over 40 books in various editions in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US, the UK and elsewhere; has won over 30 literary and film awards; and has had her work adapted or written scripts for numerous film, TV and radio works. Her works have been translated into twenty-one languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Uyghur, and Vietnamese, and her English-language novel The Banquet Bug/The Uninvited was translated into Chinese. She currently lives in Berlin, Germany.
She has been subject to an unofficial but effective ban in China since March 2020, when she wrote and promulgated an essay on the Chinese government's initial handling of COVID-19. Her future Chinese-language work will be published by her own publishing company, New Song Media GmbH.
For non-Chinese language publishing she is represented by Agence Astier-Pécher.
After serving for over a decade with the PLA (including tours in Tibet and as a war correspondent during the Sino-Vietnam border conflict), Ms. Yan was discharged with a rank equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel. She published her first novel in 1986 and ever since has produced a steady stream of novels, short stories, novellas, essays and scripts. Her best-known novels in English are The Secret Talker, published by HarperCollins; Little Aunt Crane published in the UK by Random House affiliate Harvill Secker; The Flowers of War, published in the U.S. by The Other Press and elsewhere by Random House's Harvill Secker; The Banquet Bug (The Uninvited in its UK edition - written directly in English); and The Lost Daughter of Happiness, (translated by Cathy Silber) both published by Hyperion in the US and Faber & Faber in the UK. She has also published a novella and short story collection called White Snake and Other Stories, translated by Lawrence A. Walker and published by Aunt Lute Books.
Many of Geling Yan's works have been adapted for film and television, including internationally distributed films Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (directed by Joan Chen) and Siao Yu (directed by Sylvia Chang; produced by Ang Lee). Chinese director Zhang Yimou made The Flowers of War, a big-budget film based on her work set during the 1937 Rape of Nanking, starring Academy Award winning actor Christian Bale; Coming Home 归来, based on her novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi 陆犯焉识, and One Second 一秒钟, also based on that novel.
Ms. Yan has also written numerous scripts based on her own and other authors' work, both in English and Chinese, including a script for a biopic on the iconic Peking opera star Mei Lanfang for director Chen Kaige (released as Forever Enthralled 梅兰芳) starring Leon Lai and Zhang Ziyi. She wrote the script for Dangerous Liaisons 危險關係, a Chinese-language film directed by South Korean director Hur Jin-ho and starring Zhang Ziyi, Jang Dong Gun and Cecilia Cheung. Her novel Fang Hua 芳华 is the basis a film of the same name (English title Youth) directed by Chinese director Feng Xiaogang 冯小刚. Her novel A City Called Macau 妈阁是座城 was made into a film directed by Li Shaohong 李少红, released in 2018.
Geling Yan a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and of France's Société des Gens de Lettres. She is affiliated with the Hollywood screenwriters' union, Writers' Guild of America, west, and is a former member of the Chinese Writers' Association (中国作家协会).
Geling Yan went to the United States at the end of 1989 for graduate study. She holds a Master's in Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Columbia College, Chicago. To date she has published over 40 books in various editions in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US, the UK and elsewhere; has won over 30 literary and film awards; and has had her work adapted or written scripts for numerous film, TV and radio works. Her works have been translated into twenty-one languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Uyghur, and Vietnamese, and her English-language novel The Banquet Bug/The Uninvited was translated into Chinese. She currently lives in Berlin, Germany.
She has been subject to an unofficial but effective ban in China since March 2020, when she wrote and promulgated an essay on the Chinese government's initial handling of COVID-19. Her future Chinese-language work will be published by her own publishing company, New Song Media GmbH.
For non-Chinese language publishing she is represented by Agence Astier-Pécher.
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November 2, 2023
终于看完了。可能因为在书中作者把田苏菲的心理话（她的嫉妒、她的计较、她的思想）一一写出来，所以最后书中的田苏菲跟电视剧赵薇演的田苏菲还是没那么可爱，没那么伟大。文革结束之后小菲得到了些平衡，可能说不上她跟欧阳萸终于有了共同语言，但是他们的对话有一个节奏：
“她不答话。这件黑毛衣是许多年前他给她买的。毛衣穿破了，他们的夫妻也做成了这样：再是拌嘴，也充满惯性和舒服。”
小说和电视剧有某种不同的地方也让我有一点儿意外和差异： 最大的不同就是孙百合这个人物。 还有欧阳萸跟方大姐的翻脸。 还有一个令人感到遗憾的细节就是：田苏菲到老还是一直嫉妒，一直坚持守着欧阳萸，一直没法儿放下心来。你一辈子爱了这么一个男人，能不累吗？可惜呀。
小说写的不错，但是我给它打了4颗星是因为 。。。 它没像电视剧一样触动我，感动我。电视剧我看哭了好几次，这个我大部分都是替书中的人物感到怜悯和可惜，偶尔心里也会酸的，但是没哭上。 可能因为我看到书中的田苏菲一直坚持她的做人风格，我开始觉得其实我跟她有了一定的差别，就没像电视剧的小菲有那么强烈的认同感。
“她不答话。这件黑毛衣是许多年前他给她买的。毛衣穿破了，他们的夫妻也做成了这样：再是拌嘴，也充满惯性和舒服。”
小说和电视剧有某种不同的地方也让我有一点儿意外和差异： 最大的不同就是孙百合这个人物。 还有欧阳萸跟方大姐的翻脸。 还有一个令人感到遗憾的细节就是：田苏菲到老还是一直嫉妒，一直坚持守着欧阳萸，一直没法儿放下心来。你一辈子爱了这么一个男人，能不累吗？可惜呀。
小说写的不错，但是我给它打了4颗星是因为 。。。 它没像电视剧一样触动我，感动我。电视剧我看哭了好几次，这个我大部分都是替书中的人物感到怜悯和可惜，偶尔心里也会酸的，但是没哭上。 可能因为我看到书中的田苏菲一直坚持她的做人风格，我开始觉得其实我跟她有了一定的差别，就没像电视剧的小菲有那么强烈的认同感。
August 31, 2022
Good writing as always, depressing as always, but also one of the happiest endings I've seen so far in a Geling Yan book. I wouldn't call it my favorite of hers, but it's definitely a worthy read, and very descriptive of the kind of life my predecessors must have led.
September 11, 2022
一个普通女性一生经历建国前，建国后，饥荒，文革，改革开放等等变化的故事。
很悲剧可笑的是一辈子为了一个男人团团转，幸福还是凄苦一切看这个男人对她的态度，是否出轨。这也就是很多女性的命运吧。而放到现在的社会又有多大改变呢？
很悲剧可笑的是一辈子为了一个男人团团转，幸福还是凄苦一切看这个男人对她的态度，是否出轨。这也就是很多女性的命运吧。而放到现在的社会又有多大改变呢？
October 3, 2022
生一場病，躺了兩天，啃完了這一部。
歐陽老爺子跟《第九個寡婦》的孫二大類似，是個仙一樣的人，不過對前者的描寫篇幅不是太大。
涉及了軍婚問題，不過作者（可能故意）沒有點透，而樹立都漢這樣一個模範人物。
歐陽老爺子跟《第九個寡婦》的孫二大類似，是個仙一樣的人，不過對前者的描寫篇幅不是太大。
涉及了軍婚問題，不過作者（可能故意）沒有點透，而樹立都漢這樣一個模範人物。
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March 4, 2016
田淑飛不是一個我喜歡的性格。讀這本小說後我已經知道這一點了。但我還是很尊敬她為自己的家庭所做的一切。她在作者筆下從一個無知的少女成長為一個堅強，能保護自己家人的女人。
November 15, 2016
真的是一个女人的史诗.
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