Gorgeous Family: Agatha Christie's World

Author: Wang Anyi
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: When I read Agatha Christie's novels, my feelings are quite simple—it's "enjoyment." You can abandon the pursuit of meaning and directly dive into the story. She will never disappoint you—there will always be a mysterious death, and then the suspense will definitely have an answer. Things are often like this: Poirot holds a piece of evidence in his hand that seems unrelated to the entire case, but it is this very piece of evidence, "letting go of its own place," that reveals the truth about it, detaching from the facts, and finally returning to the facts, "finally each in its place," restoring the full picture of the facts, still a concrete life. —Agatha Christie, who has written over 70 mystery novels in her life, is a representative writer of classical mystery novels and is known as the "Queen of Mystery Novels." Her works have been translated into over a hundred languages and have sold more than 2 billion copies. The popularity of Agatha Christie's novels is related to her "comfort mystery" style. In her works, there is a distinctive warmth of femininity everywhere. In her stories, the narrative is an intellectual game, although there is death and crime, human nature and the world remain gentle and beautiful. Behind this wise woman, there have been countless admirers. Chinese female writer Wang Anyi is one of them. In this collection dedicated to Agatha, Wang Anyi reexamines the characters in Agatha's works from her own perspective, narrating in a delicate and warm manner that resembles Agatha herself, revealing unexpected insights everywhere.