THE MEMORY STONES
Book ID/图书代码： 02000015B84408
English Summary/英文概要： Buenos Aires, 1976. A long hot summer has trapped the city in a bell jar of humidity. Everything has hardened or softened in the heat: bread grows stale before the bakers can sell it; lettuces wilt on grocers’ shelves; lovers too irritable for sex lie pearled in sweat. The garbage collectors haven’t been seen since the day of the military coup, and rubbish builds up in the street in mounds; dogs fight amongst the debris at night. In the midst of the heat the Ferrero family escape to the lush expanse of Tigre. Osvaldo, a distinguished middle-aged doctor, and his wife Yolanda, gather with their daughters, sensible Julieta who lives with her husband in Miami, and the beautiful, wilful Graciela – nineteen, radiant, and madly in love with her fiancé José. It would be the last time they were all together.
For on their return, the military junta starts tightening its grip on the nation, and Osvaldo is forced to flee. Exiled, he can only listen to Yolanda’s tales of the terror and anxiety that descends as friends and colleagues disappear overnight. Graciela and José go into hiding, driving Yolanda mad with worry. And then comes the day when Graciela, José and their friends are dragged from their hide-out by plain-clothes policeman, leaving Osvaldo with nothing to do but witness the slow disintegration of his family from afar.
Beautifully written, carefully observed, The Memory Stones is a devastating portrait of one family’s unbearable loss, and a country’s resounding silence.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1976年的布宜诺斯艾利斯。漫长炎热的夏天笼罩在这座闷热潮湿的城市。一切仿佛都在高温下硬化或软化:面包师可以在面包变坏前，卖掉它; 莴苣打蔫地搁在超市的货架上;情侣们挥汗如雨般地沉浸在欢愉中。垃圾回收，自军事政变以来，便未曾再有出现过，成堆的垃圾堆积在街道上，野狗在夜间为残羹剩饭而争斗。在这场炙热的炎夏中，费雷罗投奔至人丁兴旺的蒂格雷•奥斯瓦尔多一家，一个事业有成的中年医生和他的妻子尤兰达，和他们的女儿们，贤惠的大女儿朱丽叶和她的丈夫住在迈阿密，而美丽任性的，年仅十九岁格雷希拉，却疯狂地爱着自己的未婚夫何塞。这将是最后一次重聚在一起。
在他们返回时，军政府开始对国家实行军事控制，奥斯瓦尔多被迫流亡。被放逐，他可以只听闻过，妻子尤兰达的一个朋友和同事一夜之间消失的可怕故事。小女儿格雷希拉和何塞却背着夫妇俩躲了起来，这让妻子尤兰达操碎了心。而就当格雷希拉，何塞和他们的朋友们被便衣警察从藏身之处抓捕时，奥斯瓦尔多却只能眼见着家人渐渐离他而去。
唯美的文笔，细致的刻画，《记忆之石》是一部国殇之声，是一个家族遭遇灭顶之灾的悲剧。（Sandy）
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About the Author/作者介绍： Caroline Brothers was born in Australia. She has a Ph.D. in history from University College London and has worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe and Latin America, and as a journalist at the International New York Times. She is the author of War and Photography, and the novel Hinterland. She divides her time between London and Paris.Caroline Brothers出生在澳大利亚。本人拥有伦敦大学学院历史系博士学位，曾作为《纽约国际时报》驻外记者在欧洲和拉美地区工作。她是《战争和摄影》的作者，还发表过小说《蛮荒秘境》。目前作者本人在伦敦和巴黎两地之间居住。
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