This utopian novel is arguably not really ‘fantasy’, due to the lack of any magic or fantastic elements to speak of; indeed it even takes place on Earth.

可以说，这部乌托邦小说并不是真正的“幻想”小说，因为它缺乏我们谈到的魔幻或幻想元素，事实上故事甚至是发生在地球上的。

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In a novel superbly poised between the magic of innocence and the melancholy of experience, Mr Ondaatje probes what it means to have a cautious heart.

这本小说庄严地站在天真的魔力与经验的优郁当中，探索拥有谨慎心灵的意义。

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I wanted to write a fantasy novel about magic and light because there weren't many novels at the time that talked about this theme.

我想要写一部与魔法和光有关的奇幻小说，因为那时候以此为主题的小说还不太多。

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The sustaining magic of Defoe's novel is that the reader comes to regard Crusoe's self-sufficient solitude first with pity, and then with grudging envy.

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The author recently spoke with The Wall Street Journal about novel writing's black magic, the ordeal her hometown went through this past week and the books she reads when nobody's looking.

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