不是那种黄 (The Wrong Shade of Yellow)
ebook ∣ 不是那种黄 Wrong Shade of Yellow
By Margaret Eleanor Leigh Whibley
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作者简介作者自述:我是一个没有根的作者。我在种族隔离时期的南非出生且成长,在威尔士、新西兰、英格兰、希腊和苏格兰居住过。而现在又回到了威尔士——我祖辈曾经居住的地方。我的工作经历更是精彩:当过记者,做过官,也曾经是大学老师、书商和校对员。漂泊而嘈杂的生活固有它的缺陷:我唯一可以称为家的地方,只是我电脑前的一张座椅;但是,它也带给我丰富的生活经验,对写作者来说,这是无价的宝藏。我被称作"七项全能型作家",好吧,这是我唯一的头衔了。我的目标是在每个图书类别里,都至少写一本书。到现在,我已经出版了3本犯罪小说、一本自嘲的旅行游记,童书三部曲,还有一本最新的悬疑爱情小说。其中最畅销为旅行游记《不是那种黄》,在美国亚马逊畅销排行榜上曾经连续九个月位列同类小说第一。《不是那种黄》还将被翻译成包括中文在内的4种其他语言,也正准备发行有声读物。内容简介我已人到中年,却居无定所,且将身无分文,和坐在那边长凳上的流浪老妇着实毫无分别了。却也不能打包回家,因为不再有家可归,一辆单车和一囊帐篷便是我全部的家当,我的家。每晚我都以天为被,地为席,是夜身于何处,便于何处安家。也就是说,热那亚广场的普林西火车站将是今晚家之所在了。为了寻找心中的乌托邦 ,我骑着单车一路横跨欧洲大陆,坚信会在希腊的某处寻到它。待寻得之日,我将在那儿开展新生活。这就是我应对那盛大中年危机的方式。但在这场危机中,却又遭遇到了更严重的危机。一直以来,我究竟在想些什么啊?!名家/媒体评论"我已经记不清有多久没遇到让我捧腹的书了,但这本书作者的部分经历实在是有趣,让人忍不俊禁。一开始我并不知道是否会喜欢这本书,但从第一章开始就停不下来,一直读到最后一页,却又意犹未尽。"—-Amazon读者评论"世间事,有遂顺人心处,亦有不尽人意者。但回想过往,那些艰难,是挑战,不也是成长的机遇么!《不是那种黄》正是这样的故事,但比较特殊的是,其中—-人生不如意者百分百。面对这种种奇葩事件,只有以笑对困境的心态才能更好地解决掉它们吧。"—-Amazon读者评论"我实在是喜欢这部回忆录的率真,它很幽默地道出了这个淘气的世界予人的困境,但也不无谦逊。这本书给人一种未经雕琢的味道,别误会,我是想以此表达一种褒扬。现在,有太多的书粉饰过度,以至华而不实。我喜欢玛格丽特文字中"是什么,就说什么"这般实事求是的风格。这本书是她真实生活中一个不错的小插曲,进入这趟旅程,虽然偶尔也会纠结于她的顽固,但仍会不禁想要帮她处理掉那些困难,甚至希望书中出现的某些比利时人或意大利人滚得离她远远的。"—-《语言之迷失》作者Jay DesindI was middle aged and homeless, soon to be penniless, and really and truly no different from that bag lady sitting on the bench over there. I couldn't pack it in and go home, because I didn't have a home to go to anymore. The bicycle and the tent were now home. Wherever I found myself on any given night was now home. And that meant, for tonight, Genoa Piazza Principe Railway Station was home.I was cycling across Europe in search of Utopia, a place I believed was located somewhere in Greece. When I found it, I would start a new life there. It was my big, fat, Greek midlife crisis. But now I was having a crisis within a crisis. What on earth had I been thinking?