WHERE MY HEART USED TO BEAT
Book ID/图书代码： 00200015B82763
English Summary/英文概要： On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life.
His host, and antagonist, is Alexander Pereira, a man whose time is running out, but who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does.
The search for sanity takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love that seems to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally – unforgettably – back into the trenches of the Western Front.
The recurring themes of Sebastian Faulks’s fiction are here brought together with a new stylistic brilliance as the novel casts a long, baleful light over the century we have left behind but may never fully understand. Daring, ambitious and in the end profoundly moving, this is Faulks’s most remarkable book yet.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 来自畅销小说《鸟鸣》作者的最新力作。
“没有对手的人生不能称其为人生。”
接受一个陌生却又有趣的邀请来到法国的一个岛上的，精神病学家罗伯特 • 亨德里克斯会见一位给他写传记的作家。但他的目的似乎是更有兴趣找出关于罗伯特的过去而非他自己的追溯。多年来，罗伯特一只拒绝回避讨论他的过去。战争结束后，他没有和家人重聚，相信这样可以，以某种方式，否认在战场上的杀戮，和他的战友们，以及同胞士兵们的死亡，这也就将意味着他不用去正视自己所经历的那场战争。突然间，他无法阻止记忆向他涌来。但他可以信任他的记忆，我们可以相信别人告诉我们关于他们所经历的种种吗？
穿梭在现在和过往中，法国和意大利，纽约和伦敦，这是一部关于爱和战争，记忆和欲望，灵与肉的动人故事。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：The paperback will be at Number 6 in this week’s Top 10 in the UK
A haunting tale of war, love and loss from the author of Birdsong and A Week in December
‘A masterpiece… This is a terrific novel, humming with ideas, knowing asides, shafts of sunlight, shouts of laughter and moments of almost unbearable tragedy’ - Sunday Telegraph
‘Compelling… profoundly moving’ - Independent on Sunday
‘Faulks just gets better and better with every book’ - Daily Mail
‘Where My Heart Used to Beat is that rare book, a page-turning read that also has a significant intellectual and emotional charge. Destined for the bestseller lists, it deserves all of its success’ - Five star review in the Sunday Express
‘Combining as it does the cultural narrative of a complex century forsaken by God and certainty, a serious investigation of the vulnerability of the human mind and an old-fashioned – in the best sense – story of love and war, this is an ambitious, demanding and profoundly melancholy novel’ - Guardian
‘An ambitious exploration of memory and happiness’ - The Times
About the Author/作者介绍： Sebastian Faulks’s books include A Possible Life, Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Engleby, Birdsong and the number one bestseller A Week in December.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights sold: Dutch – Prometheus, German – Mare Verlag, Italian – Neri Pozza, Romanian – Grup Media Litera, Russian – Sindbad
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