THE GUSTAV SONATA

Book ID/图书代码： 12100015B86198

English Summary/英文概要： What is the difference between friendship and love? Or between neutrality and commitment? Gustav Perle is growing up in the small, peaceful country town of Matzlingen, hidden away in the very middle of neutral Switzerland, where the unfolding horrors of the Second World War seem an only distant echo. But Gustav’s father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indifferent to him. Gustav’s childhood is spent in lonely isolation, his only toy a tin train with painted passengers staring blankly from the carriage windows. As time goes on, an intense friendship with a boy of his own age, Anton Zwiebel, begins to define Gustav’s life. Jewish and mercurial, a talented pianist tortured by nerves when he has to play in public, Anton Zwiebel partly responds to Gustav’s affection, but fails to understand how deeply and irrevocably their two lives are entwined.

THE GUSTAV SONATA is a fierce and beautifully orchestrated novel, unfolding in three short lyrical movements, between the 1930s and the 1990s. Deceptively swift and spare in style, it gradually engages with the vast human issues of war and peace, racism and tolerance, flight and refuge, cruelty and tenderness. It asks the question, what does it do to a person, or to a country, to pursue an eternal quest for neutrality, self-sufficiency and self-mastery, while all life’s hopes and passions continually press upon the borders and beat upon the gate.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 友情和爱情的区别是什么呢？中立和妥协的差异又是什么呢？古斯塔夫•波尔出生在马林恩一座和平的小镇，位于中立国瑞士的中部，可怕的第二次世界大战对于这里的居民来说就像是遥远的传说。但是古斯塔夫的爸爸离奇死亡，妈妈也对他非常疏远。古斯塔夫的童年非常孤独，他唯一的玩具是一辆小火车，里面的乘客眼神空洞地望着窗外。随着时间的流逝，古斯塔夫和一个年龄相仿的男孩安东•韦贝尔建立了深厚的友谊，而安东也开始改变古斯塔夫的生活。安东是个聪明活泼的犹太人，被逼无奈在大众面前表演钢琴。安东•韦贝尔也回应了古斯塔夫的情感，但却无法理解他们两的生命将如何盘根复杂地交织在一起。

《古斯塔夫协奏曲》是一部如同乐曲般优美的小说，从上世纪30年代到90年代以三个短乐章展开，讨论了战争与和平、种族主义和宽容、飞行和避难所、残酷与亲切等人性的大问题。如果生命的所有希望和激情正在不断地敲打边界，快要破门而出，追求中立、自信和克己对于一个个人、或者国家来说意味着什么？（XAT）

Awards/获奖情况：入围2013年沃尔特•斯科特历史小说奖（《马瑞福》）
入围2013年威康信托书奖（《马瑞福》）
入围2010年曼恩•布克奖（《非法侵入》）
获得2008年百利女性小说奖（《回家之路》）
获得1999年惠特布莱德奖（《音乐与沉默》）
获得1994年费米娜外国小说奖（《神圣的国家》）
获得1989年伊克斯图书奖（《保存》）
入围1989年波克奖（《保存》）》）

Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2013 (Merivel)
Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2012 (Merivel)
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 (Trespass)
Winner of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2008 (The Road Home)
Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award 1999 (Music and Silence)
Winner of the Prix Femina Etranger 1994 (Sacred Country)
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1992 (Sacred Country)
Winner of the Express Book of the Year Award 1989 (Restoration)
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1989 (Restoration)

“[Rose Tremain’s] novel of a lifelong friendship set against the backdrop of the Holocaust is a beautiful, moving work of art.”

Review here:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/07/rose-tremains-the-gustav-sonata-strikes-all-the-right-notes/

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：The Gustav Sonata was published in the following countries: China (Shanghai Widea Culture & Art); Czech Republic (Wysehrad); Netherlands (De Geus); France (JC Lattes); Germany (Suhrkamp); Israel (Simanim); Hungary (XXI Szazad); Korea (Munhaksasang); Lithuania (Baltos Lankos); Poland (Foksal); Portugal (Elsinore); Romania (Humanitas)

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