THE LAND BREAKERS
Book ID/图书代码： 03900015B82033
English Summary/英文概要： Set deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the years of 1779 and 1784, The Land Breakers is a saga like the Norse sagas or the book of Genesis, a story of first and last things, of the violence of birth and death, of inescapable sacrifice and the faltering emergence of community.
Mooney and Imy Wright, twenty-one, former indentured servants, long habituated to backbreaking work but not long married, are traveling west. They arrive in a no-account settlement in North Carolina and, on impulse, part with all their savings to acquire a patch of land high in the mountains. With a little livestock and a handful of crude tools, they enter the mountain world—one of transcendent beauty and cruel necessity—and begin to make a world of their own.
Mooney and Imy are the first to confront an unsettled country that is sometimes paradise and sometimes hell. They will soon be followed by others.
John Ehle is a master of the American language. He has an ear for dialogue and an eye for nature and a grasp of character that have established The Land Breakers as one of the great fictional reckonings with the making of America.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 小说中的传奇故事发生在1779至1784年间阿巴拉契亚山脉丛林深处，是一个关于最初和最后、暴力的诞生和消亡、无法逃避的牺牲和社区的最初建立的动人作品。
21岁的Mooney和Imy Wright刚结婚不久，曾经都是契约奴仆，长期习惯于体力劳作。现在，他们正在向西进发。他们来到了北卡罗来纳一处没有记载的居住地，花光所有积蓄买了一片在山上的田地。凭借仅有的生活物资和简陋的工具，他们过上了绝美山区风景和残酷现实结合的山区生活，创造自己的世界。他们是第一批过上不确定乡村生活的人，这样的生活有时像在天堂，有时又像在地狱。不久，他们便迎来了后来者……
John Ehle可谓是美国语言大师，能够敏锐地捕捉对话和自然风景，并生动地呈现各个角色。本书是有关美国形成的最佳小说之一。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“我所读过的有关十八世纪山区定居生活的最佳写照之一。这本书读起来就像活生生的历史，真让我惊讶自己居然这么多年都不知道这位作者……仅仅是因为作者对开创新生活的生动描写就让我强烈推荐本书，无论是它的艰辛和嬉闹，它的胜利和悲剧，都展现了一个深刻的故事。许多场景印刻在我脑海中挥之不去……比我很长一段时间以来度过的任何作品都要令人痛心。”——Lori Benton
Some of the best portrayal of eighteenth-century mountain settlement I’ve ever read. The book reads like living history, and I can only wonder how I’ve missed this author all these years...I could recommend this book simply for Ehle’s vivid portrayal of the purely practical struggle of pioneering life, both its hardships and its frolics, its triumphs and tragedies—but it’s also a riveting story, with scenes that will remain alive for me for a long time...more harrowing than anything I’ve read in a long while.(Lori Benton)
About the Author/作者介绍： John Ehle在北卡罗来纳州山区长大，因此许多作品的小说和非虚构类作品的故事都在那里发生。著有11部小说，其中7部构成了其著名的“山区小说”系列。其妻子是著名演员Rosemary Harris，女儿Jennifer Ehle也是演员。
John Ehle (b. 1925) grew up the eldest of five children in the mountains of North Carolina, which would become the setting for many of his novels and several works of nonfiction. Following service in World War II, Ehle received his BA and MA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he met the playwright Paul Green and began writing plays for the NBC radio series American Adventure. He taught at the university for ten years before joining the staff of the North Carolina governor Terry Sanford, where Ehle was a “one-man think tank,” the governor’s “idea man” from 1962 to 1964. (Sanford once said of Ehle: “If I were to write a guidebook for new governors, one of my main suggestions would be that he find a novelist and put him on his staff.”) The author of eleven novels, seven of which constitute his celebrated Mountain Novels cycle, and six works of nonfiction, Ehle divides his time between Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and New York City. He is married to the actress Rosemary Harris, with whom he has one daughter, Jennifer Ehle, also an actress.
Linda Spalding was born in Kansas and moved to Canada in 1982. She has written four novels, Daughters of Captain Cook, The Paper Wife, Mere (co-written with her daughter, Esta), and most recently, The Purchase, for which she received the Governor General’s Award. Among her nonfiction books are A Dark Place in the Jungle: Science, Orangutans, and Human Nature and Who Named the Knife: A True Story of Murder and Memory. Spalding is an editor of the journal Brick and has been awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contributions to Canadian literature.
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