MONSIEUR KA (PREVIOUSLY CALLED THE SOUND OF FALLING SNOW)

Book ID/图书代码： 11320016B90276

English Summary/英文概要： Monsieur Ka is a development of – and a response to – Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. Its premise is the conceit that Anna was a real woman, and that her son, Sergey, who would have been born in 1864 survived the Revolution of 1917. The story is set in West London in 1947: Sergey is 83 and exiled in Chiswick, the heartland of London’s White Russian community.

Albertine is not happy in London, longing instead for the Parisian boulevards of her youth. She lacks a sense of purpose, floating through the city unanchored, struggling to learn how to love London, and to find ways to go on loving her husband in his frequent absences.

An advert in a newsagents’ window offers a new lease of life and leads Albertine to a job interview in a leafy suburb, and to Adam Carr and his elderly father, Monsieur Ka. So begins a series of afternoons in which Albertine gradually uncovers the Ka –or Karenin – family history; a strange, extravagant Russian past of royalty and power, lurking beneath the gloss of newly assumed middle-class Englishness.

Weaving the filming of Vivien Leigh’s Anna Karenina into the deep and ultimately doomed affair between Adam and Albertine, Monsieur Ka develops Tolstoy’s classic and folds it back into post-war Europe, as the East/West divide reshapes the world.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 小说是托尔斯泰的《安娜•卡列尼娜》的后续和回应。故事的前提是Anna是一个真实的女人，她本该在1864年出生的儿子Sergey在1917年的革命中活了下来。故事背景设定在1947年的伦敦西部：Sergey已经83岁了，被流放在伦敦俄罗斯白人社区的中心地带奇西克。

Albertine在伦敦过得不开心，她缺乏目标，在城市里漫无目的地游荡，努力让自己爱上伦敦，并好好关爱她那位经常见不到人的丈夫。

一次偶然的机会，Albertine找到了一份在郊区的工作，并逐渐揭开了KA（卡列尼娜）家族的历史；一段奇怪而奢侈的俄国王权和权力的过去潜藏在英国新中产阶级的光辉之下。

小说将费雯丽的《安娜卡列尼娜》融入了Adam和Albertine宿命的关系之中，对托尔斯泰的经典做了进一步的延伸，并经读者带回战后的欧洲，那时，东西方的分裂正在重新塑造整个世界。(LYR)

Awards/获奖情况：“一部引人入胜、文笔优美的小说……通过飘雪的镜头展现了一个熟悉的伦敦。精彩纷呈。”——Caryl Phillips

‘A beautiful haunting novel… looking at a familiar London through a frosty, snowy lens. Wonderful’ Caryl Phillips

About the Author/作者介绍： Vesna Goldsworthy，1961年生于贝尔格雷德，1986年至今一直居住在伦敦。她著有4部作品，被翻译成了多种语言。她2015年出版的小说处女作《Gorsky》已经被翻译成了11种语言，并入围Bailey女性小说奖，获得了广泛的赞誉。

Vesna Goldsworthy was born in Belgrade in 1961 and has lived in London since 1986. She has authored four widely translated books: a memoir, Chernobyl Strawberries; Inventing Ruritania, on the shaping of cultural perceptions of the Balkans; the Crashaw Prize–winning poetry collection, The Angel of Salonika; and Gorsky (2015), her acclaimed debut novel has been translated in 11 languages, and longlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction.

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