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故事发生在1998年,主人公科尔曼是一个有着黑人血统的大学教授,隐姓埋名地作为犹太人在美国社会中度过几乎是辉煌的一生,直到在晚年的一次意外事件中 被诬为种族主义者。之后,与一个年轻女清洁工建立情人关系,两人在一起蓄意的车祸中丧生。小说在一系列人生的回顾中展开,其他人物也在其间加入,人物各自 的秘密和污秽渐次浮露出来。
IT WAS in the summer of 1998 that my neighbor Coleman Silk—
who, before retiring two years earlier, had been a classics professor
at nearby Athena College for some twenty-odd years as well as serving
for sixteen more as the dean of faculty—confided to me that, at
the age of seventy-one, he was having an affair with a thirty-fouryear-
old cleaning woman who worked down at the college. Twice a
week she also cleaned the rural post office, a smal`````
