16本值得珍藏的英文小说(下)

15. The Remains of the Day By Kazuo Ishiguro; 245 pages
《长日留痕》，石黑一雄著（245页）

Because the anguish of unrequited love makes for riveting reading.
推荐理由：单恋的苦楚让此书引人入胜。

This quiet, heart-piercing novel showed us the cost of misplaced loyalties and missed opportunity, and reminded us of the happiness we must claim for ourselves.
这部安静而撕扯人心的小说向我们展示了错付忠心、错失良机付出的代价，也提醒着我们那份一定要为自己争取的幸福。

16. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Rebecca Skloot; 381 pages
《永生的海拉》，丽贝卡·思科鲁特著（381页）

Because we would have never known the truth without it.
推荐理由：多亏了这本小说，我们才知道这一事实。

Henrietta Lacks was a poor, Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells -- taken without her knowledge -- became one of the most important tools in medicine.
海瑞塔·拉克斯是美国南方一位贫穷烟农。而在她不知情的情况下（其过世后），她的细胞被医生取走，成为了最为重要的医学工具之一。

（来源：沪江英语 编辑：丁一）