That song is better than the songs of all creatures in the world.
From the moment she left the nest, she was looking for the thorn tree until she got what she wanted.
Then she plunged her body into the longest and sharpest thorn.
Let go of singing among wild branches
In the abyss of death, she surpassed her own pain.
The song drowned the lark and the nightingale.
This is a beautiful song that ends with death.
However, the whole world is listening quietly, and God is smiling in the sky.
Because the best things can only be bought with deep pain and great trauma.
Colleen mccullough in The Thorn Birds
Since the publication of 1977, the novel The Thorn Bird by colleen mccullough, a famous Australian writer, has not only been popular in the United States, but also been one of the top ten bestsellers in the United States. And it soon became an "international bestseller" that swept the world. It was adapted into a movie, made into a TV series, and controlled into a cassette. It was one of the best bestsellers throughout the 1980s, and readers kept asking the author to continue writing. Not long ago, the author cooperated with the composer at the invitation of relevant parties and personally adapted it into a musical for the German audience. Today, although more than 20 years have passed, the beauty of The Thorn Birds remains unchanged, whether it is a TV series or an original novel. I think he is one of the greatest love stories of all time. He is regarded as the love between Romeo and Juliet. Every time I watch it, There's something new. "
Brief introduction of the author
Colleen mccullough is one of the most influential contemporary Australian writers. She was born in a family of animal husbandry workers in Wellington, western New South Wales, Australia on June 1937, and moved to Sydney at the age of twelve. In the past, this family lived a nomadic life. Colleen mccullough has shown extraordinary artistic talent since she was a child. She began to write poems, tell stories and learn to draw pictures at the age of five. However, the great influence of the Great Depression on this working family made her realize very early that literature and art can hardly bring food and clothing to her family, and her talent and interest in mathematics and natural science prompted her to embark on a completely different road from literary creation. Colleen mccullough began to study neurophysiology at the University of Sydney in 1950s, and founded the department of neurophysiology at Royal North Shore Hospital after graduation. Five years later, in order to further improve her academic level, she went to the School of Children's Health, University of London to do research. After that, he moved to the United States and worked in Yale Medical College for ten years, becoming an influential neurophysiologist. She is still the honorary chairman of the Prince of Wales Institute of Medicine, the patron of the Australian Geriatrics Foundation, and the honorary consultant of the neurophysiology department of the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. At the same time, in order to promote the neurophysiological research in the third world, especially to train female doctors in this field, she helped Yale Medical College to establish a department of neurophysiology. Together with Sir Roden Cutler, a famous medical scientist, she was on the list of 100 outstanding people in Australia.
However, what really made Colleen mccullough famous in the world was her literary talent. 1972, she wrote her first novel Tim in her spare time. After the book 1974 was published in the United States, it was quickly made into a movie, which not only brought a lot of economic benefits to Colleen McCullough, but also made her a dazzling star in the western literary world overnight. For Colleen mccullough, this is only the first step in her literary career. 1977, she mobilized her life accumulation, created and published The Thorn Birds, which is a painstaking work. Once published, it caused a sensation. It has not only been made into a film and widely circulated, but also translated into more than 20 languages and published all over the world, making it one of the best-selling novels in the contemporary world. The royalty income of paperback alone was as high as1900,000 dollars, which was the highest in the American publishing industry at that time.
Content and appreciation of novels
The popularity of The Thorn Birds proves that it is indeed a fascinating novel. The beauty of a writer first comes from his theme: love and fate. Tells the legendary family history of the Creary family. The story began in the early 20th century and ended in the late 1960s and early 1970s more than half a century later. At the call of her childless sisters Patty Cleary and Mary Carson, she moved to Drogheda, Australia, with her wife Fiona and seven children. Zhu Siting, the only surviving German grandson, is a talented actor in Dopadi. She has determined her own life path and love destination in a distant foreign land, and told all the stories of three generations in Cleary. Some people think that colleen mccullough condensed all aspects of life into this excellent book. She tried to reveal the truth through the vicissitudes of the Creary family and their emotional journey: true love and all good things need to be exchanged at unimaginable prices. As written at the end of the novel: birds have thorns on their chests, which follow an unchanging law. She was stabbed by something with an unknown name, and those who were driven away died singing ... just singing and singing until her life ran out ... but when we put the thorn in our chest, we knew. We know very well. However, we still have to do this and stick the thorn in our chest. "
The poetic description of the environment of The Thorn Birds not only plays a good role in shaping the characters, but also enhances the aesthetic feeling of reading, so that readers can acquire rich knowledge of human geography of the characters' environment, so it is also one of its charm sources. The environment outlined by readers in sections makes us feel the strong Australian customs and deeply realize that not only the characters in the works, but also the land is strange. When Amazon online bookstore introduced this book, it described this vast and desolate land like this: "Let the old Korean aggressors take turns; When asking for it, it is cruel and heartless; When the flowers bloom, they are gorgeous; Nature's generous bonds are abundant. No place in the world is so bizarre. "Everything living in Sri Lanka in the book is shrouded in that unique atmosphere, which can be felt and touched, and people can't help but sigh the fate.
In a word, The Thorn Bird is a rare best-selling novel with rigorous structure, fluent and vivid language, full of passion and poetry, and warnings and witticisms are scattered from time to time. Very readable.