GOLD FAME CITRUS (PREVIOUSLY THE DOWSERS)

Book ID/图书代码： 12844015B79842

English Summary/英文概要： The Dowsers is set in a future California, after the state has been rendered barren through drought. The west has effectively been closed down and most Americans have moved as refugees to the east coast. Some people chose to remain however, amongst them the couple at the heart of this novel – however they are forced to go on the run after kidnapping a child they believe is being abused, only to be “rescued by” and drawn into, a commune headed by a charismatic wild guy resembling Charles Manson. So it’s also an exploration of how/why people like that can attract cult followings, what it is that makes them so magnetizing

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事发生在未来的加利福尼亚，那时候，加州已经由于干旱而被废弃。整个西部基本上已经被遗弃，大部分西部美国人都作为难民搬去了东海岸。但还是有些人选择留守，而本书中的夫妻正是这些人之中的一员。在绑架了一名他们认为遭受虐待的儿童之后，他们不得不踏上了逃亡之路，途中被一个公社“拯救”并成为了其中的一员。公社的首领是一个极富魅力的类似查尔斯曼森的人。因此，这部小说也探讨了像查尔斯曼森这样的人为何能够吸引邪教的追随者，是什么让他们变得如此“有魅力”。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：An extraordinary novel: relentlessly brilliant, utterly fearless, and often savagely funny. Watkins explores the maze of human thirst in all its forms. Here’s a love story that tracks the mutating hopes of two lost souls, in prose that is fever-bright and ferociously assured. More confirmation that Watkins is one of the brightest stars in our firmament (Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia and Vampires in the Lemon Grove)

A tour-de-force first novel blisters with drought, myth, and originality . . . Praised for writing landscape, Watkins’ grasp of the body is just as rousing . . . Critics will reference Annie Proulx’s bite and Joan Didion’s hypnotic West, but Watkins is magnificently original (Kirkus)

A gripping, audacious novel, plausibly imagined in all its remarkable details. With Claire Vaye Watkins there was never promise: it was achievement from the start, and this book repays her admirers in spades (Thomas McGuane)

An unforgettable journey into a hauntingly imagined near-future. With her mind-bending vision, breathtaking storytelling and utterly original voice, Claire Vaye Watkins is one of my favorite writers (Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being)

Set in an increasingly plausible-seeming future in which drought has transformed Southern California into a howling wasteland, this debut novel by the author of the prize-winning story collection Battleborn finds two refugees of the water wars holed up in a starlet’s abandoned mansion in L.A.’s Laurel Canyon. Seeking lusher landscape, the pair head east, risking attack by patrolling authorities, roving desperadoes, and the unrelenting sun (The Millions - most anticipated books of 2015)

Exhilarating, upsetting, delirious, bold, Gold Fame Citrus is a head rush of a novel and establishes Claire Vaye Watkins as an important new voice in American literature (Louise Erdrich, author of The Round House)

A sun-hammered fever dream, not unlike the shimmering, sweltering southwest it depicts. Your heart will be wrung out by the journey of Luz, Raymond, and Ig. Your imagination will feast on the assured depiction of a near-future that is burnt to a crisp. And you’ll hope it’s all a mirage as Watkins renders a hot and very plausible future the frightening force of a burning inevitability (Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek)

About the Author/作者介绍： Claire曾在多本报刊杂志上发表自己的作品，曾获得Nevada Writers Hall of Fame颁发的Silver Pen Award并位列美国国家图书基金会评出的“35岁以下的5位（5 under 35）”，2013年被提名卡内基奖章最佳虚构类作品奖。

Claire is a Presidential Fellow at Ohio State where she recently received her MFA. She has been published in Granta, Hobart, One Story, Ploughshares, the Hopkins Review and The Las Vegas Weekly. Claire is the recipient of the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame and was honoured as one of ’5 under 35’ by the National Book Foundation in 2012.

Claire Vaye Watkins has been nominated for a 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights Sold: Germany - Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH The Netherlands - Uitgeverij de Arbeiderspers Italy - Neri Pozza Editore

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