O LUTO DE ELIAS GRO(THE MOURNING OF ELIAS GRO)
Book ID/图书代码： 11701216B87070
English Summary/英文概要： When no human power can help you, where do you turn? On a remote island, a man torn apart by the past, a dying priest and a little girl come together in a story of faith and redemption.
Hiding from his demons, the narrator inhabits an abandoned lighthouse, seeking only solitude. But one day he runs over a 10-year old girl on his bicycle - Cecilia, the daughter of Elias Gro, the local priest. Confronted by the priest, he is made to walk Cecilia to school every day to amend for his mishap, and soon Cecilia’s comical, provocative and bluntly honest character will stir up the narrator’s past.
Obsessed with rebuilding a house by the shore that has been swallowed up by the sea, Elias Gro gathers a crew to help him. They rescue an old chest buried in the water that contains the diaries of a writer who once inhabited the sunken house. Cecilia and the narrator spend many days going through these, discovering secrets that Elias Gro had shared, as a young man, with this elusive figure and the old lighthouse keeper, Xavier, hinting at the moment when Elias first surrendered to a power greater than himself.
As the past is exposed, the narrator’s grief takes over. Drunk and careless, he steals a tractor and drives it into a barn, and is asked to leave the lighthouse premises. He finds refuge in nature, in the island itself, a silent but caring witness, and plunges into solitude. By the time he returns, Elias is dying. And it is then, sitting by the priest’s deathbed, that the narrator discovers the truth about Elias’s faith and about himself, in a magical chronicle of life and death, of resistance and surrender, where one can find, through the singular creatures of the island, all the tragicomedy of humankind.
THE MOURNING OF ELIAS GRO is João Tordo’s most intimate and atmospheric novel, plunging into the depths of the human soul, a warm, funny and heartbreaking book.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当人类的力量无法帮助你时，你会向谁求助？在一个遥远的小岛上，一名深陷过去的痛苦中的男人、一位垂死的神父、一个小女孩，三人在这个故事中走到一起，一个关于信仰和赎罪的故事。
为了躲避心中的“恶魔”，故事讲述者居住在一个废弃的灯塔中，独自为伴，与世隔绝。然而，一天，他骑车撞到了一个10岁的女孩Cecilia，Cecilia是神父埃利亚斯•格罗（Elias Gro）的女儿。神父要求故事讲述者每天陪Cecilia上学。很快，Cecilia的滑稽幽默、挑衅煽动以及诚实的性格搅乱了故事讲述者的过去。
Elias Gro忙于在海边重建一座被大海吞噬的房屋，集结了一群人一起帮忙。他们在水底挖出一个废旧的箱子，箱子里藏有一位作家的日记。这位作家曾居住在这座沉入海底的房子里。Cecilia和故事讲述者花了好几天翻阅这些日记，发现了许多秘密……
随着过的点滴逐渐暴露，故事讲述者的悲痛愈加严重。喝醉酒后，他不小心偷了一辆拖拉机并开着拖拉机冲入谷仓，并被勒令离开灯塔。于是，他只能在大自然中寻求栖身之所，又一次陷入了寂寞。当他再次回来时，神父Elias已经奄奄一息，也就是在那一刻，当他坐在神父的床边，故事讲述者才正真发现Elias的信仰和他自己的真相……
《埃利亚斯•格罗的哀悼》是João Tordo笔下最晦涩微妙、最有氛围的一部小说，故事剖析了人类灵活的深处，一部温馨、有趣而又令人心碎的小说。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：“葡萄牙当代文学史上最最棒的小说之一。”——Diario de Noticias
“One of the best novels in Portuguese contemporary
literature” Diario de Noticias
About the Author/作者介绍： Joao Tordo已著有8部小说，并因此荣获了包括José Saramago文学大奖在内的各类奖项。此外，他还曾入围巴西葡萄牙电讯奖、葡萄牙作家协会最佳小说奖、欧洲文学大奖，并两度入围Fernando Namora文学大奖。
Joao Tordo has written eight novels. These have won awards including the José Saramago Literary Prize, and he has been shortlisted for the Portugal Telecom Prize in Brazil, the Fernando Namora Literary prize twice, Best Novel at the Portuguese Author’s Society and the European Literary Award.
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