MONSOON SUMMER: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 00200016B87648
English Summary/英文概要： By the award-winning author of East of the Sun, a moving love story spanning the globe from England to India, about the forbidden love between a young Indian doctor and an English midwife.
Oxfordshire, 1947. Kit Smallwood, hiding a painful secret and exhausted from nursing soldiers during the Second World War, escapes to Wickam Farm where her friend is setting up a charity that will send European midwives to the Moonstone Home in South India.
At Wickam Farm, Kit meets Tomas Thekkeden, an Indian doctor finishing his PhD at Oxford University. They quickly fall in love with each other to the chagrin of their parents. But Kit and Thomas are excited for the future and hungry for adventure. Against their parents’ wishes, they secretly marry and move to India where Kit plans to run the Moonstone Home.
But far from being a romantic adventure, Kit’s life in India isn’t what she imagined. Her relationship with Tomas and his large, traditional family begins to unravel, her job is fraught with tension, and she is faced with a newly independent India—which now resents England for withdrawing so quickly—where riots have left millions dead. Kit tries to form close relationships with her colleagues, but soon learns her limits when her naiveté lands her in a frightening and dangerous situation.
Based on true accounts of European midwives in India, Monsoon Summer is a powerful story of secrets, the nature of home, the comforts and frustrations of family, and how far we’ll go to be with those we love.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书作者曾著有获奖的小说《East of the Sun》。本书讲述一个跨越国界的爱情故事：一个印度医生和英国助产士之间的禁忌之爱。
1947年的牛津郡，隐藏着一个令人心痛的秘密的Kit Smallwood因为一直护理二战士兵而筋疲力尽，最终她逃到了Wickam农场。她的朋友在这里开设了一个慈善机构，将欧洲的助产士送往南印度的Moonstone Home。
在Wickam农场，Kit遇到了Tomas Thekkeden，一名刚刚在牛津大学读完博士的印度医生。他们很快爱上对方，但这令他们的父母十分失望。Kit和Tomas对未来充满想象，因此他们秘密结婚并搬到印度，Kit计划在Moonstone Home工作。
但这并不是一段浪漫的冒险。Kit在印度的生活超出了她的想象。她与Tomas的传统大家庭之间的关系开始瓦解，她的工作充满了压力，她面前是一个刚刚独立的印度，现在正对英国撤回如此之快非常不满，不时发生的骚乱已经导致了数百万人死亡。Kit希望和她的同事们拉近关系，但很快得知这并不容易，她的天真让她陷入一个可怕和危险的境地。
本书基于在印度的欧洲助产士的真实经历，是一个震撼人心的故事，探讨了家的本质、家庭带的舒适和挫以及我们究竟能够为了自己所爱的人做到什么地步。（LYR）
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About the Author/作者介绍： Julia Gregson曾是记者，并在英国、澳大利亚和美国等地担任驻外记者。她的小说《East of the Sun》在英国十分畅销，并赢得了年度浪漫小说大奖以及Le Prince Maurice奖。她的短篇小说发表在多本合集和杂志中，还在电台播出过。她住在威尔士的蒙默思郡。
Julia Gregson has worked as a journalist and foreign correspondent in the UK, Australia, and the US. Her novel East of the Sun was a major bestseller in the UK and won the Romantic Novel of the Year Prize and the Le Prince Maurice Prize there. Her short stories have been published in collections and magazines and read on the radio. She lives in Monmouthshire, Wales.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights sold – Germany: Blanvalet, Greece: Dioptra.
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