THE GUN ROOM
Book ID/图书代码： 02000015B79271
English Summary/英文概要： Dawn, mist clearing over the rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young war photographer gets the shot that might make his career. The image, of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great photographs of the war. But what he has seen in that village is more than he can bear, and he flees.
Jonathan drifts on to Japan, to lose himself in the vastness of Tokyo, where there are different kinds of pictures to be taken: peacetime pictures of crowds and subways and cherry blossom. And pictures of a girl with whom he is no longer lost: innumerable pictures of Kumiko, on the streets and in the rain and in the heat of the summer.
Yet even here in this alien city, his history will catch up with him: that photograph and his responsibility in taking it; his responsibility as a witness to war, and as a witness to other events buried far deeper in his past. The Gun Room is a powerful exploration of image and memory, and of the moral complexity and emotional consequences of the experience of war.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 战争的记忆对一个人来说比任何东西都要长久。
黎明时分，薄雾笼罩着稻田，一个燃烧的越南村庄，一位年轻的摄影师拍下了可能成就他事业的照片。这张在一片混乱中发呆的士兵的照片，将成为战争时期最伟大的照片之一。可是乔纳森在那个村子里所看到的，他实在无法忍受……
他逃到日本，迷失在东京的广阔无垠中，拍摄各种不同的照片:街道、人群和樱花——还有一个不会让他再感到迷失的女孩。然而，即使在这里，他的历史也会跟随他:那张照片和他拍摄它的责任;他作为战争见证者的责任，还有那些他想要埋葬的尘封往事。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：Georgina Harding’s novel is the finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft and a testament to the power and poetry of clean and disciplined prose (Sadie Jones Guardian)
Quietly and restrainedly, The Gun Room is a book that provokes searching questions (Daily Mail)
Graceful and considered ... The dreamlike quality is heightened by Harding’s sharply observed prose ... As befits a writer adept at carefully cropped scenes, Harding has the measure of photography. The novel plays with its ability to captivate, shock, inform and misdirect (Sunday Telegraph)
In delicate, hypnotic prose, Harding describes the devastating effects of war and the trauma of bearing witness (Sunday Express)
A moving story (Elle Summer Reading)
Harding has the descriptive skills to do her subject justice . Elegant (Mail on Sunday)
Her writing is so gentle and beautiful and takes you so confidently on a journey. I let myself be carried away (Esther Freud)
A captivating, superbly written novel about the impossibility of escaping from the past (Simon Shaw Mail on Sunday 2017-04-16)
About the Author/作者介绍： 乔吉娜•哈丁，出版过《The Solitude of Thomas Cave》和另两部非小说作品《Tranquebar》和《In Another Europe》。她居住在伦敦和埃塞克斯的斯陶尔山谷。
Georgina Harding is the author of the novel The Solitude of Thomas Cave and two works of non-fiction: Tranquebar and In Another Europe. She lives in London and the Stour Valley, Essex.Georgina Harding was shortlisted for the Orange-prize.
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