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一把刀，千个字
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王安忆的长篇《一把刀，千个字》从清袁枚的 "月映竹成千个字，霜高梅孕一身花"进入，以一位淮扬名厨非同寻常的成长经历为叙述线索，他生于东北的冰雪之地，记忆却从因避难而被携来上海寄居的亭子间开始。古人道，礼失求诸野，他启蒙于祖辈扬州乡厨的鲜活广博，蜕变于上海淮扬系大师的口授身传，后来在纽约法拉盛成为私人定制宴席的大厨......就如他精神世界的启蒙源自《红楼梦》《黄历》《易经》一样，不同地域间的舌尖上的美味，其实开阔出另外一番融汇了天地与自然体悟的精妙世界，而时代更迭与反复冲刷席卷下的个人命运与抉择，也呈现了多重视角与评述体系下的民间记忆。
《一把刀，千个字》先期在《收获》杂志发表，得到广泛的关注和好评，读者和评论者都被王安忆在本书中展现的人物、故事、内涵赞佩不已。思考的深沉，功力的深厚，情感的深潜，表达的精巧，王安忆的长篇小说创作更上一层楼。
内容简介
一把刀，故事从谁讲起？ 千个字，写到哪里结束？
刀工秀气，字写深沉，在人间烟火的张力中，诘问、思辨、不断挖掘人性
"一把刀"，杀鱼斩骨，从上海到纽约，刀下无数佳肴。
"千个字"，花前月下，竹影如人，认不清，写不完。
来自中国的陈诚，靠一手厨艺在纽约法拉盛谋生。姐姐不时带美国男友来弟弟家吃饭，姐姐尖刻，弟媳爽快，二人时有言语较量。姐姐的男友知一二中文，似懂非懂之间常常插进点睛之语，令人或捧腹或惊诧。陈诚的父亲与一众朋友，闲聊中常有碰撞，带着老一辈的认真执着。
陈诚少小离家，寄人篱下，沉默内向。以往父母工作繁忙的时代，姐姐掌管家务大事，敢想敢做。父母的性格也如姐弟俩，父亲平稳持重，母亲活泼多思。一家人动静兼容，倒也和睦。
生活轨迹的改变与社会动荡相关，陈诚被送到上海和嬢嬢相依度日。孤僻的嬢嬢给了他文化的开蒙和谋生的本事，里弄的生活给了他可靠的朋友和意外的妻子。而消失的母亲，一直深刻而无形地对父亲、姐姐和他产生影响，给他们增添了许多故事，许多幸与不幸。多年以后，嬢嬢去世，陈诚回上海奔丧。睹物思人，抚今追昔，少年时的谜团不解自开，唯有感慨无法言说。
王安忆的长篇《一把刀，千个字》从清袁枚的 "月映竹成千个字，霜高梅孕一身花"进入，以一位淮扬名厨非同寻常的成长经历为叙述线索，他生于东北的冰雪之地，记忆却从因避难而被携来上海寄居的亭子间开始。古人道，礼失求诸野，他启蒙于祖辈扬州乡厨的鲜活广博，蜕变于上海淮扬系大师的口授身传，后来在纽约法拉盛成为私人定制宴席的大厨......就如他精神世界的启蒙源自《红楼梦》《黄历》《易经》一样，不同地域间的舌尖上的美味，其实开阔出另外一番融汇了天地与自然体悟的精妙世界，而时代更迭与反复冲刷席卷下的个人命运与抉择，也呈现了多重视角与评述体系下的民间记忆。
《一把刀，千个字》先期在《收获》杂志发表，得到广泛的关注和好评，读者和评论者都被王安忆在本书中展现的人物、故事、内涵赞佩不已。思考的深沉，功力的深厚，情感的深潜，表达的精巧，王安忆的长篇小说创作更上一层楼。
内容简介
一把刀，故事从谁讲起？ 千个字，写到哪里结束？
刀工秀气，字写深沉，在人间烟火的张力中，诘问、思辨、不断挖掘人性
"一把刀"，杀鱼斩骨，从上海到纽约，刀下无数佳肴。
"千个字"，花前月下，竹影如人，认不清，写不完。
来自中国的陈诚，靠一手厨艺在纽约法拉盛谋生。姐姐不时带美国男友来弟弟家吃饭，姐姐尖刻，弟媳爽快，二人时有言语较量。姐姐的男友知一二中文，似懂非懂之间常常插进点睛之语，令人或捧腹或惊诧。陈诚的父亲与一众朋友，闲聊中常有碰撞，带着老一辈的认真执着。
陈诚少小离家，寄人篱下，沉默内向。以往父母工作繁忙的时代，姐姐掌管家务大事，敢想敢做。父母的性格也如姐弟俩，父亲平稳持重，母亲活泼多思。一家人动静兼容，倒也和睦。
生活轨迹的改变与社会动荡相关，陈诚被送到上海和嬢嬢相依度日。孤僻的嬢嬢给了他文化的开蒙和谋生的本事，里弄的生活给了他可靠的朋友和意外的妻子。而消失的母亲，一直深刻而无形地对父亲、姐姐和他产生影响，给他们增添了许多故事，许多幸与不幸。多年以后，嬢嬢去世，陈诚回上海奔丧。睹物思人，抚今追昔，少年时的谜团不解自开，唯有感慨无法言说。
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206 pages, Hardcover
Published September 30, 2021
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About the author
Wang Anyi
87 books56 followersWang Anyi (王安忆, born in Tong'an in 1954) is a Chinese writer, and currently the chairwoman of Writers' Association of Shanghai. The daughter of a famous writer and member of the Communist Party, Ru Zhijuan(茹志鹃), and a father who was denounced as a Rightist when she was three years old, Wang Anyi writes that she "was born and raised in a thoroughfare, Huaihai Road." As a result of the Cultural Revolution, she was not permitted to continue her education beyond the junior high school level. Instead, at age fifteen, she was assigned as a farm labourer to a commune in Anhui, an impoverished area near the Huai River, which was plagued by famine.
Transferred in 1972 to a cultural troupe in Xuzhou, she began to publish short stories in 1976. One story that grew out of this experience, "Life In A Small Courtyard", recounts the housekeeping details, marriage customs, and relationships of a group of actors assigned to a very limited space where they live and rehearse between their professional engagements.
She was permitted to return home to Shanghai in 1978 to work as an editor of the magazine "Childhood". In 1980 she received additional professional training from the Chinese Writer's Association, and her fiction achieved national prominence, winning literary award in China.
Her most famous novel, The Everlasting Regret (长恨歌), traces the life story of a young Shanghainese girl from the 1940s all the way till her death after the Cultural Revolution. Although the book was published in 1995, it is already considered by many as a modern classic.
Wang is often compared with another female writer from Shanghai, Eileen Chang, as both of their stories are often set in Shanghai, and give vivid and detailed descriptions of the city itself.
A novella and six of her stories have been translated and collected in an anthology, "Lapse of Time". In his preface to that collection, Jeffrey Kinkley notes that Wang is a realist whose stories "are about everyday urban life" and that the author "does not stint in describing the brutalising density, the rude jostling, the interminable and often futile waiting in line that accompany life in the Chinese big city".
In March 2008, her book The Song of Everlasting Sorrow was translated into English.In 2011, Wang Anyi was nominated to win the "Man Booker International Prize."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Anyi
Transferred in 1972 to a cultural troupe in Xuzhou, she began to publish short stories in 1976. One story that grew out of this experience, "Life In A Small Courtyard", recounts the housekeeping details, marriage customs, and relationships of a group of actors assigned to a very limited space where they live and rehearse between their professional engagements.
She was permitted to return home to Shanghai in 1978 to work as an editor of the magazine "Childhood". In 1980 she received additional professional training from the Chinese Writer's Association, and her fiction achieved national prominence, winning literary award in China.
Her most famous novel, The Everlasting Regret (长恨歌), traces the life story of a young Shanghainese girl from the 1940s all the way till her death after the Cultural Revolution. Although the book was published in 1995, it is already considered by many as a modern classic.
Wang is often compared with another female writer from Shanghai, Eileen Chang, as both of their stories are often set in Shanghai, and give vivid and detailed descriptions of the city itself.
A novella and six of her stories have been translated and collected in an anthology, "Lapse of Time". In his preface to that collection, Jeffrey Kinkley notes that Wang is a realist whose stories "are about everyday urban life" and that the author "does not stint in describing the brutalising density, the rude jostling, the interminable and often futile waiting in line that accompany life in the Chinese big city".
In March 2008, her book The Song of Everlasting Sorrow was translated into English.In 2011, Wang Anyi was nominated to win the "Man Booker International Prize."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Anyi
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March 3, 2025
王安憶的語言很美。作爲女性知青親歷文革，隱晦寫作母親從因不服從文革，挺身發聲而被失蹤，到後來被封國家烈士而全家「受益」的歷史經驗，影響隨時間延展。
作爲上海文人熟知20世紀後期不同階層、世代的移民文化和經驗，從海外揚州菜名厨的個人史寫出新舊華人移民的離散記憶，影響沿地域擴散。
用食物的色香味開篇，寫到以母子關係為核心的家庭及遠近人情網絡中的故事，在廣闊、散漫的時空感官維度中，感受到歷史荒誕滄桑。
作爲上海文人熟知20世紀後期不同階層、世代的移民文化和經驗，從海外揚州菜名厨的個人史寫出新舊華人移民的離散記憶，影響沿地域擴散。
用食物的色香味開篇，寫到以母子關係為核心的家庭及遠近人情網絡中的故事，在廣闊、散漫的時空感官維度中，感受到歷史荒誕滄桑。
April 18, 2021
Life goes with thousands of knives, and it can be summerised as one word.
September 13, 2021
大鳴大放, 文革 - 一段從一個不懂人事的孩子眼中看到的世界
November 29, 2025
看似平淡地说话生活，实际是有些东西碰不得，或是像黑洞会被吸进去，于是换一种方法来。造化弄人和事在人为共存于全篇。我没想到与法拉盛与上海这么远这么近，感谢王安忆作家。
December 18, 2021
Each new book from Wang An Yi is getting me enjoy more her ways of Chinese literature. Comparing her earlier works with the recent ones, I can find more artistic and rigorous expression between the lines that I can escape a little while from the Internet and wireless era communication.
November 19, 2021
上海跟苏北的部分还是写得好的，其余琐屑且止于隔靴搔痒。
October 2, 2022
人生尽是离别。
January 2, 2024
写这种东西王安忆得心应手
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