琼斯:相比于《月球》在《源代码》中对科技做了软处理,我会设定一个相当复杂的科学小说背景。
Jones: Source Code is a little softer science than Moon, which I would posit is pretty hard science fiction.
然而他的10本小说背景都设在索马里,这10本小说让他赢得了人们的承认,他被看作是现代小说中不落俗套的声音,也被尊为非洲最重要的小说家之一。
Yet the ten novels that have earned him recognition as a sophisticated voice in modern fiction—and one of Africa’s most important writers—are all set in Somalia.
小说背景是苏联接管波罗的海诸国的1939 - 40年间,而今年又是《莫洛托夫-里宾特洛普条约》(即《苏德互不侵犯条约》)签订70周年纪念,因此这本小说很是火热。
It is mainly set during the Soviet takeover of the Baltics in 1939-40, so this year's anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact makes it highly topical.
So, what I want to do now is, with that background in mind, I want to take this up and just open up the first few pages.
所以我想要做的事,记着这个背景,我想要打开几页小说。
You can feel that back story to the novel. Yeah. What else?
你可以感受到这部小说的背景故事,嗯还有吗?
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