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2010最出人意料的畅销书是一名陶瓷艺术家优美而又扣人心弦的自传。
Keith Richards's memoir reveals more than you can dream of asking for
基思·理查德的自传透露了你难以想象的事件。
1. The Hare with Amber Eyes
1.《镶琥珀眼睛的兔子》
by Edmund de Waal
作者：埃德蒙·德·瓦尔
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. When it was first announced, this memoir by a ceramicist sounded as though it might be a rather niche affair. But the book – a beautiful object in itself – has become the sleeper hit of 2010, winning awards, selling in incredible numbers and chosen by many of our critics as their book of the year. By tracking a set of Japanese netsuke bought by a cousin of his great-grandfather in the 1870s and working his way from Paris (where one of his relatives was a model for Proust’s character Swann) to Vienna (where the collection of carvings was rescued from the Nazis) to Seventies Tokyo, de Waal tells the history of his family – and, by extension, of Europe in the 20th century.
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。这部小说刚刚上市时，陶艺专家写的自传听起来更像是关于壁龛的事儿。但谁也没有想到这本精美的书竟会如此畅销，赢得奖项，销量惊人，倍受评论家的赏识。通过追溯19世纪70年代他曾祖父的堂兄买的一套日式坠子和从法国（这有他的一个亲戚是普鲁斯特一角斯旺的模型）至维也纳(在这里从纳粹手里挽救了这些收集的雕像)，再到七十年代的东京经历，德·瓦尔先生像我们讲述了他的家族历史，也展现了二十世纪欧洲的历史。
2. Freedom
2. 《自由》
by Jonathan Franzen
作者：乔纳森·弗伦岑
The novel of the year: for its quality, and for its news value. Whatever you think of Franzen’s so-called “Great American Novel”, any book so culturally significant as to require you to have an opinion should be lauded.
因其优美精致、新颖独特，《自由》入围2010年年度小说大奖。无论你认为被弗伦岑称作“伟大美国小说”如何，这本书在文化上都有重大意义，值得称赞。
3. Letters to Monica
3. 《写给莫妮卡的信》
by Philip Larkin
作者：菲利普·拉金
Was the nation’s favourite poet a misogynist? Does it matter? The question has been debated ever since Larkin’s Selected Letters were published in 1992. That volume was full of performance for his male friends; this one, addressed to his long-term lover – and published in the Telegraph – shows a different side, and can’t fail to enrich our view of the man and the work.
英国最受欢迎的诗人是厌女者？这有什么关系呢？这个问题自1992年拉金将一些信公之于众开始，一直争论至今。这本书记载了他的男性朋友——他一直以来的情人的所有事迹。该书发表于英国《卫报》上，让我们看到了他的另一面，对他和他的作品有了更广泛的了解。
4. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
4.《莉迪亚·黛维丝小说集》
The book that should make everyone become acquainted with this master of the short story. Davis is a writers’ writer, long admired by her peers and deeply influential, yet too intriguing and low-key to have caused a big stir on this side of the Atlantic – until now.
这本书会让你了解这位短篇小说名家。黛维丝是作家中的作家，一直被同辈作家所敬仰，颇有影响力。直到今天，她的迷人和低调仍在大西洋此岸引起巨大反响。
5. MI6 by Keith Jeffery
5.《军情六局》
作者：基斯·杰夫
If you can lift this book, it’s worth it. MI6 opened the archive of its first 40 years to Keith Jeffery, and his exhaustive history emphasises the significance of the Secret Intelligence Service in a way that its official secrecy had previously rendered impossible.
这本著作值得一看。军情六局对基斯·杰夫开放了前四十年的档案，他详尽的历史强调了秘密情报局的重要意义，官方机密以前曾认为这是不可能办到的事。
6. What to Look for in Winter
6.《冬天应寻找什么》
by Candia McWilliam
作者：坎迪娅·迈克威廉
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. Of these, McWilliam’s story of losing her sight – and losing sight of herself – is the most painful by far.
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。其中，坎迪娅·迈克威廉关于失去光明的小说是迄今为止最为悲苦的小说。
7. Chasing the Sun
7. 《追逐太阳》
by Richard Cohen
作者：查德·科恩
The ingenious idea behind Cohen’s extraordinarily wide‑ranging book is that the sun deserves a biography of its own. Taking in science, myth, religion, philosophy, art and uncategorisable adventure, he tells the story of the star without which we would not exist.
查德·科恩的内容极其广泛的书背后有一奇思妙想，那就是值得为太阳写一自传。本书融科学、神话、宗教、哲学、艺术和史无前例的冒险为一体，讲述了万物之源太阳的故事。
8. Life
8.《生活》
by Keith Richards
作者：凯斯·理查德
Not everyone’s life has been exactly like Keith Richards’s, as his title shruggingly suggests, but that’s what makes his memoir as addictive as the substances that have fuelled it. In contrast to the cautious non-news contained in this year’s glut of political memoirs, the old Stone reveals more than you could ever dream of asking for.
没有人会向凯斯·理查德的头衔预示的生活那样惨淡，而这也正是他的回忆录令人着迷的地方。与去年包含谨慎的非新闻过多的政治自传相比，该书透露了你难以想象的事情。
9. Solar
9. 《日光》
by Ian McEwan
作者：伊恩·麦克尤恩
In a return to the glorious mean-spiritedness of his earlier work, McEwan has created an anti-hero of uncontainable appetites and irrepressible ambition. Some feared that Solar’s subject – global warming – would make a rather pious book. But in fact it was McEwan’s funniest novel for years.
再一次回归至他早期作品的狭隘主题，伊恩·麦克尤恩创造出了一个具有难以克制的欲望和野心的反主角。一些人担心该书的题材--全球变暖--使其变得虚伪。但是事实上这是他数年来最为风趣的一本著作。
10. A History of the World in 100 Objects
10.《100件文物讲历史》
by Neil MacGregor
作者：Neil MacGregor
Through this book, through its accompanying Radio 4 series, and simply through his everyday – but exceptional – work as director of the British Museum, MacGregor has taught us a new way of seeing, and reinstated what he calls “the necessary poetry of things”.
作为大英博物馆馆长的MacGregor，通过这部著作、附有的四系列广播以及他每天超凡的工作，告诉我们另一种观赏方式，重新恢复了他称之为“物品的必要诗歌性”。
2010最出人意料的畅销书是一名陶瓷艺术家优美而又扣人心弦的自传。
Keith Richards's memoir reveals more than you can dream of asking for
基思·理查德的自传透露了你难以想象的事件。
1. The Hare with Amber Eyes
1.《镶琥珀眼睛的兔子》
by Edmund de Waal
作者：埃德蒙·德·瓦尔
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. When it was first announced, this memoir by a ceramicist sounded as though it might be a rather niche affair. But the book – a beautiful object in itself – has become the sleeper hit of 2010, winning awards, selling in incredible numbers and chosen by many of our critics as their book of the year. By tracking a set of Japanese netsuke bought by a cousin of his great-grandfather in the 1870s and working his way from Paris (where one of his relatives was a model for Proust’s character Swann) to Vienna (where the collection of carvings was rescued from the Nazis) to Seventies Tokyo, de Waal tells the history of his family – and, by extension, of Europe in the 20th century.
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。这部小说刚刚上市时，陶艺专家写的自传听起来更像是关于壁龛的事儿。但谁也没有想到这本精美的书竟会如此畅销，赢得奖项，销量惊人，倍受评论家的赏识。通过追溯19世纪70年代他曾祖父的堂兄买的一套日式坠子和从法国（这有他的一个亲戚是普鲁斯特一角斯旺的模型）至维也纳(在这里从纳粹手里挽救了这些收集的雕像)，再到七十年代的东京经历，德·瓦尔先生像我们讲述了他的家族历史，也展现了二十世纪欧洲的历史。
2. Freedom
2. 《自由》
by Jonathan Franzen
作者：乔纳森·弗伦岑
The novel of the year: for its quality, and for its news value. Whatever you think of Franzen’s so-called “Great American Novel”, any book so culturally significant as to require you to have an opinion should be lauded.
因其优美精致、新颖独特，《自由》入围2010年年度小说大奖。无论你认为被弗伦岑称作“伟大美国小说”如何，这本书在文化上都有重大意义，值得称赞。
3. Letters to Monica
3. 《写给莫妮卡的信》
by Philip Larkin
作者：菲利普·拉金
Was the nation’s favourite poet a misogynist? Does it matter? The question has been debated ever since Larkin’s Selected Letters were published in 1992. That volume was full of performance for his male friends; this one, addressed to his long-term lover – and published in the Telegraph – shows a different side, and can’t fail to enrich our view of the man and the work.
英国最受欢迎的诗人是厌女者？这有什么关系呢？这个问题自1992年拉金将一些信公之于众开始，一直争论至今。这本书记载了他的男性朋友——他一直以来的情人的所有事迹。该书发表于英国《卫报》上，让我们看到了他的另一面，对他和他的作品有了更广泛的了解。
4. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
4.《莉迪亚·黛维丝小说集》
The book that should make everyone become acquainted with this master of the short story. Davis is a writers’ writer, long admired by her peers and deeply influential, yet too intriguing and low-key to have caused a big stir on this side of the Atlantic – until now.
这本书会让你了解这位短篇小说名家。黛维丝是作家中的作家，一直被同辈作家所敬仰，颇有影响力。直到今天，她的迷人和低调仍在大西洋此岸引起巨大反响。
5. MI6 by Keith Jeffery
5.《军情六局》
作者：基斯·杰夫
If you can lift this book, it’s worth it. MI6 opened the archive of its first 40 years to Keith Jeffery, and his exhaustive history emphasises the significance of the Secret Intelligence Service in a way that its official secrecy had previously rendered impossible.
这本著作值得一看。军情六局对基斯·杰夫开放了前四十年的档案，他详尽的历史强调了秘密情报局的重要意义，官方机密以前曾认为这是不可能办到的事。
6. What to Look for in Winter
6.《冬天应寻找什么》
by Candia McWilliam
作者：坎迪娅·迈克威廉
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. Of these, McWilliam’s story of losing her sight – and losing sight of herself – is the most painful by far.
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。其中，坎迪娅·迈克威廉关于失去光明的小说是迄今为止最为悲苦的小说。
7. Chasing the Sun
7. 《追逐太阳》
by Richard Cohen
作者：查德·科恩
The ingenious idea behind Cohen’s extraordinarily wide‑ranging book is that the sun deserves a biography of its own. Taking in science, myth, religion, philosophy, art and uncategorisable adventure, he tells the story of the star without which we would not exist.
查德·科恩的内容极其广泛的书背后有一奇思妙想，那就是值得为太阳写一自传。本书融科学、神话、宗教、哲学、艺术和史无前例的冒险为一体，讲述了万物之源太阳的故事。
8. Life
8.《生活》
by Keith Richards
作者：凯斯·理查德
Not everyone’s life has been exactly like Keith Richards’s, as his title shruggingly suggests, but that’s what makes his memoir as addictive as the substances that have fuelled it. In contrast to the cautious non-news contained in this year’s glut of political memoirs, the old Stone reveals more than you could ever dream of asking for.
没有人会向凯斯·理查德的头衔预示的生活那样惨淡，而这也正是他的回忆录令人着迷的地方。与去年包含谨慎的非新闻过多的政治自传相比，该书透露了你难以想象的事情。
9. Solar
9. 《日光》
by Ian McEwan
作者：伊恩·麦克尤恩
In a return to the glorious mean-spiritedness of his earlier work, McEwan has created an anti-hero of uncontainable appetites and irrepressible ambition. Some feared that Solar’s subject – global warming – would make a rather pious book. But in fact it was McEwan’s funniest novel for years.
再一次回归至他早期作品的狭隘主题，伊恩·麦克尤恩创造出了一个具有难以克制的欲望和野心的反主角。一些人担心该书的题材--全球变暖--使其变得虚伪。但是事实上这是他数年来最为风趣的一本著作。
10. A History of the World in 100 Objects
10.《100件文物讲历史》
by Neil MacGregor
作者：Neil MacGregor
Through this book, through its accompanying Radio 4 series, and simply through his everyday – but exceptional – work as director of the British Museum, MacGregor has taught us a new way of seeing, and reinstated what he calls “the necessary poetry of things”.
作为大英博物馆馆长的MacGregor，通过这部著作、附有的四系列广播以及他每天超凡的工作，告诉我们另一种观赏方式，重新恢复了他称之为“物品的必要诗歌性”。
