CABARET: A ROMAN RIDDLE
Book ID/图书代码： 06840005B00283
English Summary/英文概要： SET IN ROME in the 1970s,this delightful comic mystery from the author of La Cucina involves a seedy cabaret, a missing ventriloquist, his dummy--who may or may not be a real midget-and the ventriloquist’s young wife whose only hope is that her husband never returns. The mystery behind the ventriloquist’s disappearance and his wife’s reluctant participation in the police investigation is the backbone of this suspenseful, hilarious, soulful, and offbeat romp.
It starts one Saturday afternoon, when Freda Lippi comes home to find her apartment overrun by the police and her husband, Alberto, his dummy ,and her beloved parrot, Pierino, gone without trace. Though distraught about Pierino, her true soul mate, Freda feels pure exaltation at the thought that she may never again see her husband. From there, she chronicles the strange events of the days the follow with flashbacks to her own tragic life that explain why she married Alberto; from the horrific accident that devastated her world as a teenager to the life-changing cruise around the Mediterranean with a sinister one-armed companion; from the funeral parlor where Freda works by day as an embalmer to the surreal cabaret where she performs at night, unleashing her repressed passions.
With her characteristic black humor, vivid, sensual imagery, and quirky insights, Lily Prior evokes, in light, brilliant strokes, the bustling streets of Rome and displays the range of her imagination that will have you turning pages and laughing out loud to the end .
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一部以罗马小巷为故事背景、讲述一位在得知其丈夫神秘失踪后狂喜的少妇的推理喜剧。
一天下午，Freda Lippi回到家中，发现公寓里到处是警察，而她的丈夫----口技表演家----Alberto和他的假人以及Lippi养的鹦鹉---Pierino-----统统销声匿迹了。虽然她对Pierino的失踪很是不安、焦虑，但是一想到Alberto----那位她深恶痛绝的丈夫再也不会回来了，她就觉得很舒畅。之后，Lippi开始把后来日子里发生的一件件超现实的事件整理起来，穿插倒叙了她自己的不幸人生，道出了她嫁给Alberto的原委：从那个毁了她整个纯真年代的意外事故，谈到在邪恶且搞笑的独臂人的陪伴下巡游地中海的经历----这此经历改变了她的人生，再从她曾经工作过的殡仪馆------白天，她在那里做尸体防腐员，讲到破旧的爱尔兰餐厅-----
晚上，她会来着里表演，发泄她蓄积已旧的激情。每一个转变都充满惊奇，随着所有可能的答案一个接一个的变的遥不可及，期望值在不断累积。
Awards/获奖情况：“Drolly comic oddity. Prior sets the stage for an intriguing mystery...
Light laughs and plenty absurdity make for a diverting read.” --Publishers
Weekly
“Prior is a great joke teller. She understands pacing, characters, and the
power of a perfectly delivered punch line.” --Entertainment Weekly
“[A] surrealistic romp...Prior clearly knows her way around an absurd
world, and she piles on the Felliniesque grotesqueries with the gusto of a
pastry chef building the world’s tallest layer cake.” --Booklist
“Not only is Lily Prior’s latest novel the oddest book of the year so far—it’s
also one of the funniest.” --Chicago Tribune
“Think of her as Moll Flanders or Tom Jones, or perhaps the anti-
Candide” --The Washington Post, on Ardor
“Prior once again explores the power of the senses in a lush and bawdy tale
of sex, desire, and the certainty of retribution.” --Booklist, on Ardor
“The author’s voice is utterly distinctive, original, and sincere and at
times very funny.” --Joanne Harris, award-winning author Chocolat, on
Ardor
“Prior is a great joke teller. She understands pacing, characters, and the
power of a perfectly delivered punchline.” --Entertainment Weekly, on
Nectar
About the Author/作者介绍： LILY PRIOR is the author of La Cucina, Nectar,and Ardor .She divides her time between London and Italy.
Format:HARDCOVER
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：France/Editions Grasset &
Fasquellle (reverted)
Germany/Verlagsgruppe
Lubbe (reverted)
Italy/Newton Compton
(reverted)
Portugal/Editorial Bizancio
(reverted)
Turkey/Inkilap (reverted)
Romania/Editura Leda
(reverted)
Russia/Olga Morozova
Publishers (reverted)
Serbia/Portalibris
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Turkey/Inkilap (reverted)
US Audio/Audible.com
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