AT HAWTHORN TIME

Book ID/图书代码： 11701215B82167

English Summary/英文概要： Four-thirty on a May morning: the black fading to blue, dawn gathering somewhere behind the treeline in the East. A long, straight road runs between sleeping fields to the little village of Lodeshill, and on it two cars lie wrecked and ravished, violence gathered about them in the silent air. One wheel, upturned, still spins. Howard and Kitty have recently moved to Lodeshill after a life spent in London; now, their marriage is wordlessly falling apart. Custom car enthusiast Jamie has lived in the village for all nineteen years of his life and dreams of leaving it behind, while Jack, a vagrant farm-worker and mystic in flight from a bail hostel, arrives in the village on foot one spring morning, bringing change. All four of them are struggling to find a life in the modern countryside; all are trying to find ways to belong. Building to an extraordinary climax over the course of one spring month, At Hawthorn Time is both a clear-eyed picture of rural Britain, and a heartbreaking exploration of love, land and loss.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事从一个五月的清晨开始——4点30分，天色渐渐泛蓝。在小镇Lodeshill笔直的马路上，横着两辆被撞毁的车，一个轮胎仍然在转动，四周则一片死寂。Howard和Kitty刚从伦敦搬到Lodeshill。两人的婚姻正在崩塌。改装车狂热爱好者Jamie在小镇待了整整19年，他梦想着离开这里的生活。无业农场工人Jack神奇地从保释接待所里逃了出来，在一个春日的清晨来到了镇上，带来了变化。这四人都努力在这个现代化小镇上寻找新生活，找到自己的归宿。这部小说清晰描绘的英国乡村风貌，讲述了一个有关爱、土地和丧失的催人泪下的故事。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：“这是一部关于爱和梦想、悲剧和神话的神奇而梦幻的作品，让我感到浑身战栗。这是有关追寻神话和意义、归属的需求和历史意义的既客观又充满热情的深思。Harrison为我们描绘了一个全新的田园生活：有人居住、原始的、混乱的、闪耀的。”——Helen Macdonald，《H is for Hawk》的作者

“本书异常感人，虽然被灾难笼罩，但依然审慎、准确、梦幻而美丽。”——Evie Wyld

“一个天生的小说家，继承了哈代和卡尔的衣钵，作品引人入胜……”——《星期日电讯报》

Praise for AT HAWTHORN TIME:
“A magical, hypnotically strange book of love and dreams, tragedy and myth, At Hawthorn Time sent shivers down my spine. Soaked deep in hedgerows and fields, it is a profoundly unsentimental yet deeply compassionate meditation on searching for myth and meaning, on our need to belong, and the place of history in the history of place. Harrison is writing us a new kind of modern pastoral: peopled, raw, messy, and shining.” Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk)

“At Hawthorn Time is intensely moving, a book overshadowed by disaster but still careful, precise, and hypnotically beautiful” (Evie Wyld)

“Harrison’s love of the natural world and its traditions vibrates poetically through every page, but this is an up-to-date reading of the national psyche . Harrison’s imagination is wonderfully strange, her writing beautifully assured and controlled. At Hawthorn Time is social satire, but also a political protest against the intensive and increasing privatisation of the countryside, and a love letter to the power of nature - which persists whether we understand it or not.” (Kate Saunders The Times)

“In graceful, measured and compelling prose, she can write whole pages about soil and stones, the hundred-year history of a hedge . Her level gaze, crisp prose and sharp insight make her a fresh and valuable voice in both fiction and nature writing (Guardian)

The novel is as much a hymn to the ancient life-force of nature as it is a reminder of the underlying fragility of our busy modern world . Harrison writes with impressive detail about our hedgerows, fields, and woodlands . Carefully crafted writing.” (Holly Williams Independent on Sunday)

“The landscape, indeed, feels like the most vivid character of all . Harrison has a detailed, lyrical, surprising eye . It requires a reader who is prepared to slow down to absorb the beauty, the detail, and stop demanding answers.” (Lucy Atkins Sunday Times)

“Acute, effortless . So much unforced life is here that Harrison is readily comparable with Elizabeth Taylor and Penelope Lively; but she has a distinction all her own - and her growing audience must hope to live long enough to read everything she writes.” (Spectator)

“A nature novelist in the great tradition of Thomas Hardy and J L Carr. Bracing and arresting. *****” (Sunday Telegraph)

About the Author/作者介绍： Melissa Harrison的首部小说《粘土（Clay）》赢得了朴茨茅斯第一小说奖，入选亚马逊“新星”项目，被Ali Smith评选为2013年年度图书之一。她是一位自由职业作家，有时为报纸和期刊担任摄影师和专栏作者。目前居住在伦敦南部。@M_Z_Harrison

Melissa Harrison’s debut novel Clay won the Portsmouth First Fiction Award, was selected for Amazon’s ’Rising Stars’ programme and chosen by Ali Smith as a Book of the Year for 2013. A freelance writer, occasional photographer and columnist for The Times, the Weekend FT and the Guardian, she lives in South London. @M_Z_Harrison

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