如果今年证明了我们可以通过一些文物来了解世界历史的话,那么埃德蒙·德·瓦尔先生绝对是这类小说的佼佼者。他的笔锋出人意料,优美流畅。
If this year proved that the history of the world could be told through objects (see Neil MacGregor's book, below), Edmund DE Waal emerged as the form's most surprising and elegant storyteller.
回忆录最出色的一年:埃德蒙·德·瓦尔、路克·詹宁斯、托尼·朱迪特和坎迪娅·迈克威廉都写了回忆录,超过了今年大部分的小说。
It has been a particularly good year for memoir: Edmund DE Waal, Luke Jennings, Tony Judt and Candia McWilliam have all written books that are better than most of the year's offerings in fiction.
很久很久以前,两个年轻人埃德蒙和奥斯瓦尔德上了法庭。
Ever so long ago, two young men, Edmund and Oswald, appeared in court.
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