Now available in English for the first time, Eileen Chang’s dark romance opens with Julie, living at a convent school in Hong Kong, on the eve of the Japanese invasion. Her mother, Rachel, long divorced from Julie’s opium-addict father, saunters around the world with various lovers. Recollections of Julie’s horrifying but privileged childhood in Shanghai clash with a flamboyant…

Eileen Chang (1920–1995) was born into an aristocratic family in Shanghai. Her father, deeply traditional in his ways, was an opium addict; her mother, partly educated in England, was a sophisticated woman of cosmopolitan tastes. Their unhappy marriage ended in divorce, and Chang eventually ran away from her father—who had beaten her for defying her stepmother, then locked her …

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烂透了
没有张爱玲的神韵。
而且出版社和翻译竟然敢内涵中国。相当恶心。🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷
负分不解释。

前言里流露出的优越感，令人恶心🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

为什么宋以朗没有抓紧时间找高手翻译张爱玲呢？只屈服于这种水平的翻译？？？？？
并不是译笔不好，只不过真的太太太太不像Eileen Chang了_(:з」∠)_
前面好像好一点，后面好像翻译烦了似的，越译越差，不过对于张爱玲和小团圆来说，译成这样也就可以了
五星完全是给原著。有些直译的Chinglish让人哭笑不得。 “井底之蛙”这种成语就直接翻也不解释，难道不担心外国读者看着“丈二 monk can’t touch his head”吗？
看着都替外国读者叫苦连天。张爱玲的文字翻成英文真的完全没有韵味了
？？英文版？