BBC经典书单：21世纪最伟大的12本小说
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BBC经典书单：21世纪最伟大的12本小说1. Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)胡诺特·迪亚斯的《奥斯卡·瓦奥短暂而奇妙的一生》（2007年出版）The winner in this BBC Culture cri tics‘ poll is Junot Diaz‘s first novel, about New Jerseyghetto-nerd Oscar, who dreams of being the Dominican-American Tolkien and finding love. Critic and author Rigoberto Gonzalez notes, ―The work re-energised these questions: Who is American? What is the American experience?‖胡诺特·迪亚斯的处女作位列于BBC文化档评论家投票的榜首。
小说的主人公是新泽西贫民窟一个名叫奥斯卡的书呆子。
他梦想着成为多米尼加裔美国版的托尔金（英国文豪，以严肃奇幻作品《霍比特人》、《魔戒》闻名）并找到真爱。
评论家兼作家里戈韦托·冈萨雷斯评论道：―这部作品让人们不禁要重新思索：怎样定义美国人？美国经历又是什么？‖2. Edward P Jones, The Known World (2003)爱德华·A·琼斯的《已知的世界》（2003年出版）Set in 1855 on the plantation of Henry Townsend – born a slave, now a slave-owner – The Known World is a triumph of empathy, immersing readers in a complex moral time without making simple judgments. It also ―takes an unflinching and engrossing view of America's messy history‖.故事发生在1855年。
经营种植园的亨利·汤森虽然现在是奴隶主，却有着奴隶出生。
《已知的世界》给人的代入感很强，它成功让读者陷入一个复杂的道德处境，难以轻易做出判断。
这本小说还―果敢地讲述了美国混乱的历史，引人入胜‖。
3. Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (2009)希拉里·曼特尔的《狼厅》（2009年出版）Mantel‘s boldly reimagined saga of 16th Century Europe is told from the perspective of Thomas Cromwell (with Henry VIII as a supporting character). It has been filmed as anew BBC miniseries.希拉里的这部作品从托马斯·克伦威尔的视角大胆地对16世纪的欧洲进行重构，而亨利八世（则一反常态地）在书中扮演配角。
这本长篇小说已经被拍成了BBC新系列短剧。
4. Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (2004)玛里琳·罗宾逊的《基列家书》（2004年出版）Critic Karen R Long says, ―This multi-generational story inculcates a desire for transcendence, and makes a case for spiritual life in the 21st Century – its own kind of miracle. Gilead will be read in 100 years.‖评论家凯伦·R·朗谈道：―这个故事横跨多代人，书中反复灌输的是人们对超越的渴望，还展现出21世纪的精神生活。
它本身便是个奇迹。
《基列家书》在未来的100年中仍会被人传阅。
‖注：Gilead——基列，圣经里古巴勒斯坦的地名。
5. Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (2001)乔纳森·弗兰岑的《纠正》（2001年出版）This ―astonishing third novel – a masterpiece of voice, character, and storytelling – is both epic and intimate.‖ Franzen‘s edgy multigenerational family saga, winner of a US National Book Award, was among the first novels to capture the zeitgeist of the century‘s first decade.―这本（弗兰岑）出人意料的第三本小说是一部杰作，书中人物的发言、所刻画的角色以及其讲故事的功力都无可挑剔。
书既具有史诗般的恢弘又言语亲昵。
‖这部长篇小说获得了美国国家图书奖，展现了多世代家庭中紧张的关系，它也是捕捉到二十世纪第一个十年时代精神的先驱小说之一。
6. Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)迈克尔·夏本的《卡瓦利尔和克莱伊的神奇冒险》（2000年出版）Booklist senior editor Donna Seaman notes this book is ―a timeless inquiry into ourtragic proclivity for hate and war, our abiding need for stories and our persistent longing for magical powers and transcendence.‖这张书单的高级编辑唐娜·西曼称赞这本书―是作者超越时间界限发出的疑问——它向人类对于仇恨与战争悲剧性的倾向、渴望故事的长久需求以及不懈追求魔力和超越发问。
‖7. Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010)珍妮弗·伊根的《恶棍来访》（2010年出版）―Time is the s tealth goon, the one you ignore bec ause you are so busy worrying about the goons right in front of you.‖ Egan says. Egan‘s Proustian meditation on time, fame and music won the National Book Critics Circle and Pulitzer awards.伊根写道：―时间——是人们总是因为忙于寻找担忧眼前的‗恶棍‘而忽略的‗隐藏恶棍‘。
‖伊根对时间、名誉和音乐的普鲁斯特式思考成就了此书，使其荣膺美国国家书评人奖和普利策奖。
8. Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012)本·方汀的《比利·林恩漫长的中场休息》（2012年出版）Eight rookies from the US army‘s Bravo squad, fresh from a firefight with Iraqi insurgents, are dubbed war heroes by the Fox News cable channel. Their two-week stateside victory tour ends with a halftime salute at a Dallas Cowboys game. Fountain gives us a memorable narrator in 19-year-old Billy Lynn, with his combination of lust,bedazzlement and post-traumatic stress disorder.在与伊拉克叛乱者的交火结束没多久，美国军队刺杀小组的八名新兵便被福克斯新闻频道标榜为战争英雄。
他们在美国国内历时两周的胜利巡演，最终以达拉斯牛仔队橄榄球球赛的中场表演画上句号。
方汀为我们呈现的是一位让人记忆犹新的讲述者，他是19岁的比利·林恩。
与此同时，我们得以一窥比利的欲望、茫然困惑以及创伤后应激障碍（post-traumatic stress disorder，缩写PTSD）。
注：李安导演已经确定要将这本书拍成电影！该片的编剧西蒙·比弗尤还曾凭借《贫民窟的百万富翁》（Slumdog Millionaire）获过奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖。
9. Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001)伊恩·麦克尤恩的《赎罪》（2001年出版）McEwan‘s haunting and beautifully crafted novel opens on a summer day in 1935, when13-year-old Briony shows her mother a play she‘s written to perform with her three young cousins the next evening.麦克尤恩这本小说夺人心魄、文笔优美。
故事始于1935年的一个夏日，13岁的布莱欧妮向她的母亲展示她创作的短剧，还准备第二天晚上和三个表姐一起表演。
"Briony was hardly to know it then, but this was the project's highest point of fulfillment," McEwan writes. "Nothing came near it for satisfaction, all else was dreams and frustration."That evening, Briony witnesses her 15-year-old cousin Lola being assaulted in the darkened woods. Her testimony implicates Robbie, her sister Cecilia's boyfriend from Cambridge and son of the family house maid, and he is jailed.麦克尤恩写到：―布里奥妮几乎不知道那已经是她剧本最成功的时刻了，其他的设想都只是些白日梦，不能为她带来任何满足，甚至会让她尝到沮丧的滋味。
