GOLDEN HILL

Book ID/图书代码： 04560015B84296

English Summary/英文概要： I’ve no history here, and no character: and what I am, is all in what I will be...

New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746.

One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat pitches up at a countinghouse door in Golden Hill Street: this is Mr Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion simmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a huge amount, and he won’t explain why, or where he comes from, or what he can be planning to do in the colonies that requires so much money.

Should the New York merchants trust him? Should they risk their credit and refuse to pay? Should they befriend him, seduce him, arrest him; maybe even kill him? This is Fielding’s Tom Jones recast on Broadway - when Broadway was a tree-lined avenue two hundred yards long, with a fort at one end flying the Union Jack and a common at the other, grazed by cows

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在这里，我没有过去，也没有身份，我就是我将要成为的那个人……

1746年，曼哈顿岛上的一座小镇，纽约。

11月的一个雨夜，一个英俊的年轻陌生人刚从船上下来，来到金山街的账房门前。他叫史密斯先生，和善、迷人，同时又令人心生怀疑。他似乎在口袋里藏着一千磅，这是很大的一笔钱，但他却不愿意解释自己来自何方，为何而来或者他打算在殖民地用这么一大笔钱干什么……

纽约的商人会相信他吗？他们会赌上信誉拒绝支付吗？他们会与他为友，诱惑他，逮捕他甚至杀了他么？小说会令读者想起菲尔丁的《汤姆琼斯》。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：Prizes:
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2016
Winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2017
Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017
Shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2017
Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year 2017
UK sales of over 100,000

’Fast, pacey and quite wonderful, I loved it.’ Jenny Uglow

"Francis Spufford has long been one of my favourite writers of non-fiction; he is now becoming a favourite writer of fiction as well. Golden Hill is a meticulously crafted and brilliantly written novel that is both an affectionate homage to the 18th century novel and a taut and thoughtful tale." Iain Pears

’Addictively readable.” Mark Haddon

"I knew from my previous experience of reading Francis Spufford that once I started I wouldn’t be able to stop. And so it proved: Golden Hill slipped down like an oyster. A superb, gripping, and memorable novel.’ Adam Roberts

"I loved this book so much. Golden Hill wears its research with incredible insouciance and grace; a rollicking picaresque, it is threaded through with darkness, but has a heart of gold." Jo Baker

"Quite marvellous. A vivid re-creation of colonial New York, in which the adventures of Mr Smith, who may be a charlatan or a hero, make for a page turner, with an unexpected and unusually satisfying ending." CJ Sansom

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/spufford-wins-10k-ondaatje-prize-547871

so so thrilled to say that Francis Spufford has won the Ondaatje Prize for GOLDEN HILL: The judges of the Ondaatje Prize said:
’This is that rare thing - an ingenious novel that draws on profound research to evoke the spirit of another age, yet wears that research lightly. An astonishing achievement, intoxicating in its virtuosity.’

More wonderful prize news landed last night : Francis Spufford won the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction with Golden Hill.

This is Francis’s third major prize win this year following the Costa First Novel Award and the Ondaatje Prize. We’re over the moon!

Chair of the judges, Sam Leith, described Golden Hill as ’miraculously constructed ... at once so fabulously entertaining, so exquisitely wrought and so moving that it stands among not just the best first novels of the year, but the best novels of this or any year.’

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/golden-hill-wins-10k-desmond-elliott-prize-572301

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/21/golden-hill-wins-francis-spufford-third-major-prize-in-a-year?CMP=twt_a-culture_b-gdnculture

About the Author/作者介绍： Francis Spufford，处女作《I May Be Some Time》荣获1996年作家协会奖最佳非虚构类图书奖、班夫山图书奖和毛姆奖。还著有《Red Plenty》《The Child That Books Built》《Backroom Boys》。2007年加入皇家文学学会。目前在金匠学院教授写作，居住在剑桥附近。

Francis Spufford’s first book, I May Be Some Time, won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 1996, the Banff Mountain Book Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. It was followed by The Child That Books Built, Backroom Boys, and most recently, Red Plenty. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College and lives near Cambridge.

Format:TRADE PAPERBACK

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：
Catalan (Ediciones de 1984),
China (Beijing Yutian Hanfeng Books),
Czech Republic (Vysehrad),
Germany (Rowohlt),
Italy (Bollati Boringhieri),
Netherlands (Nieuw Amsterdam),
Poland (Wydawynictwo Poznanskie),
Spain (Alba Editorial),
Turkey (Monokl),
US (Simon & Schuster)

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