ADDLANDS
Book ID/图书代码： 00200015B86385
English Summary/英文概要： Addlands tells of two generations of the Hamer family working The Funon Farm. From the ancient blue silence in the hills to the encroaching roar of modernity, Addlands tells of human and animal, Bora and fauna, and it speaks of the land and lets the land speak for itself. There is Idris, stubborn, strong, a man of the plough and the prayer-sheet, haunted by the war. Then comes Oliver, a near mythic giant bestriding the landscape, a fighter, a man of the hills as hard as the prehistoric stone. Then there is Etty, Oliver’s mother, the centre of this close constellation, watching new technologies and old ways converge on the farm and on the life of her son.
Addlands is instantly a classic of rural British fiction. It is as vast and complex as a symphony but as pure and moving as a solo voice in an empty church.
Addlands is a map of the efforts and customs that bind a community together, but also threaten to drive it apart. It shows hidden power lines of superstition, tradition and belief, strung above a humming cross-stitch of family secrets and woven into the cables, wires, tracks and roads of an agricultural community. As much a book about birdsong as it is about closing time brawls, Addlands’ beauty is in the clear truth of its language and the sheer humane depth of its inquiries. It is a miraculous book which unfurls at the speed of life and bathes its reader in a rare golden light.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书讲述了Hamer家族两代人在The Funon农场的故事。古时候蓝色的沉寂山脉如今充斥着现代化的喧闹，本书的主角是人与动物以及这片土地。Idris是固执的、强健的，犁地的能手，对战争充满了恐惧。Oliver则是一个神秘的巨人，斗士，和石头一样难以接近的山里人。Etty是Oliver的母亲，也是一系列角色的中心，眼看着新的科技和旧的方式影响着农场以及自己儿子的人生。
本书是英国乡村小说中的经典之作。画面宽广、复杂得犹如一首交响乐，但又如此纯净和动人，好像空荡荡的教堂中的独唱者。
本书是一幅交织了努力和习俗的地图，将一个社区带到读者面前。其中也隐藏着迷信，传统和信仰，围绕着、守护着家庭的秘密。这部作品的美好之处在于语言的真实和对人性挖掘之深。作为一本书，这部作品算得上奇迹，能够让读者忘却身边的一切，重回那个环境之中。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：‘addlands (i.e., headlands):
the border of plough land which is ploughed last of all.’- W. H. Howse, Radnorshire.
“An absolutely splendid book….Bullough roots the reader in the Welsh landscape, which like all inhabited landscapes is a place in flux -- he wants us to make it our home, to get a sense of its light and shadow and textures. Of this place he’s made a world that is rich and absorbing. Every time I’d pick up Addlands to read, I did so with relish – to return to these pages is to come back to terrain so lushly imagined that it feels luxurious to spend time there.”- JOHN DARNIELLE, New York Times bestselling author of Wolf in White Van
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