作者：JonathanCoe
出版社：Viking
出版年：2018-11-8
页数：432
定价：GBP16.99
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780241309469
内容简介
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'It was tempting to think, at times like this, that some bizarre hysteria had gripped the British people'
Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way to Olympic fever, Middle England follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change.
There are newlyweds Ian and Sophie, who disagree about the future of the country and, possibly, the future of their relationship; Doug, the political commentator who writes impassioned columns about austerity from his Chelsea townhouse, and his radical teenage daughter who will stop at nothing in her quest for social justice; Benjamin Trotter, who embarks on an apparently doomed new career in middle age, and his father Colin, whose last wish is to vote in the European referendum. And within all these lives is the story of modern England: a story of nostalgia and delusion; of bewilderment and barely-suppressed rage.
Following in the footsteps of The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle, Jonathan Coe's new novel is the novel for our strange new times.
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精彩到忍着头痛也要读完！！！
best novel this year! It clearly shows the philosophy and behaviors of British people in different generations, and also covers many topics such as immigration, immigrants or international people in E…
终于读到了一部Brexit novel，但Coe还是不太会讲故事。描绘各类人、不同阶层的stereotypical political views，也有点加深对不同人群刻板印象的意味。总之夹生饭。
寫得蠻好玩。“脫歐”小說這個標籤很有意思，很少見到以一次政治事件來指代小說題材的，除非是戰爭之類。莫非將來只要是寫於英國脫歐後，並且內容有指涉脫歐的小說，都會叫做Brexit novel嗎？拭目以待了。
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