MY ABSOLUTE DARLING

Book ID/图书代码： 12800716B94872

English Summary/英文概要： A debut novel of emotional daring and stylistic brilliance, MY ABSOLUTE DARLING recounts the journey of a resilient fourteen-year-old girl, Turtle Alveston, who grows up in the thrall of her psychologically and sexually abusive father, Martin, a reclusive autodidact determined to prevent his daughter from escaping their sheltered dyad. The novel tracks Turtle’s fight for her own soul through acts of physical and emotional courage. She is an unforgettable character, psychologically complex, fierce, haunted, with steely determination and deep loyalty to the father who both controls her and teaches her.
The Mendocino Coast of the novel — its rocky beaches, cold springs, and second growth redwood forests — plays a crucial role in the story as the dominant experience of Turtle’s life. Tallent’s attention to the natural world and to the abject body in captivity gives the novel its ethical sensibility.
MY ABSOLUTE DARLING portrays this remarkable young woman’s self-creation when the odds are murderously against her.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一本情感大胆、很有性格的小说，描述了一个使用能力很强的十四岁女孩Turtle Alveston如何在她心理虐待和性虐待的父亲Martin的束缚下长大的故事，而Martin是一个隐居的自学者，他不希望自己的女儿离开他。小说跟踪了Turtle如何通过身体和情感中鼓起的勇气来争取自己的灵魂。她是一个令人难忘的人物，心理复杂，凶猛，忧心忡忡，对于控制她并教导她的父亲有坚定的抗拒和深切的忠诚。
小说中的Mendocino海岸是一道岩石海滩，有冷泉，有红木森林，这在故事中扮演着重要角色，是Turtle生活中主要经历的发生地。Tallent对自然世界的关注和对被囚禁的堕落身体赋予了小说伦理感性。
本书描绘了尽管周围的一切对她有害，这位杰出年轻女子仍旧抱有的自我创造。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：这本书如此生动和有力，简直超乎想象。Turtle Alveston是我所读到过的最有活力的人物角色之一，书中的每个场景都蕴含了无限的紧张刺激和深刻思想，又通过如此优美的文字和对于细节的无限掌控表达出来，我简直完全停不下来。（Phil Klay，国家图书奖获奖作家，著有《REDEPLOYMENT》）
"It is unreal how vivid and compelling this book is. Turtle Alveston is one of the most vibrant characters I’ve come across in a long time, and every scene in this astonishing novel packs so much tension, so much insight, such beautiful prose and such masterful handling of detail, I simply could not stop reading."-- Phil Klay, National Book Award-winning author of REDEPLOYMENT

Gabriel Tallent grew up in Mendocino, California. He attended the Mendocino Community High School and spent a lot of time backpacking, re-reading Greek tragedies, and trying to figure out MOBY DICK. Tallent received his BA from Willamette University and wrote his thesis on the discursive construction of pleasure in Samuel Richardson’s PAMELA. He lives in Salt Lake City, where he can be found climbing or futilely trying to identify plants in Little Cottonwood Canyon. His stories have been published in Narrative and in the St Petersburg Review.

And this bookseller rave – just in – should help too!

My Absolute Darling. Riveting, brilliant, daring, dark. The combination of the damaged Martin, whose “protection” of his daughter, Kibble, Julia, or Turtle, depending, is veiled abuse, the gorgeous descriptions of guns, knives, and every single plant in northern California turn every convention of this familiar trope of surviving an abusive relationship on its head. A world at once fragile and unbreakable, lessons of surviving the unthinkable become lessons in salvation, and the absolute power of goodness and redemption are masterfully handled by the most talented author I have read in a long time. Gabriel Tallent is a genius and My Absolute Darling is a book for the ages.

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BTW: Do you have advice for booksellers when it comes to hand-selling your book to customers?
GT: Hand-selling involves the work of engaging with another person, which is something you can’t really do in a blankly prescriptive setting. So, knowing the limitations of that, I would sell it as a book that is about a young woman’s struggle for her own soul. Turtle is a character who is at risk and who is trying to build her own personhood, to form her own identity in the face of the most adverse yet sometimes beautiful circumstances. I think nature sometimes gives us the strength to do that, and that’s a struggle that many of us can relate to, even if the circumstances couldn’t be more different. We’ve all engaged in that project.

MY ABSOLUTE DARLING debuts on the New York Times bestseller list at #6 (not #7)!

MY ABSOLUTE DARLING by Gabriel Tallent has been honored as a finalist for the 2017 Leonard Prize for a first book in any genre by the National Book Critics Circle!!

The John Leonard Prize will be presented at the NBCC Awards Ceremony at The New School in New York on March 15, 2018.

About the Author/作者介绍： Gabriel Tallent成长在加利福利亚的Mendocino。他在当地高中上学，曾有一段当背包客的日子，重读希腊悲剧，想要找到莫比迪克。Tallent在Willamette大学获得了文科学士学位。他住在咸湖城，喜欢在小棉木山谷里爬山或者辨识植物。他写的故事曾发表在包括《Narrative》等出版物上。

Format:TRADE PAPERBACK

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Below is the long, long list of praise heaped upon this debut novel. Plus, we hear that it should debut at #7 on the New York Times bestseller list!

UK – Fourth Estate Holland – Ambo/Anthos France – Editions Gallmeister Italy – Rizzoli Libri Israel – Kinneret Korea – Tomato Publishing House Germany – Penguin Verlag Poland – Agora Croatia – Stilus knjiga Denmark – Politikens Forlag Sweden – Polaris Finland – Gummerus Norway – Cappelen Damm Russia – Sindbad Greece - Patakis Brazil - Verus Czech Republic -Euromedia Slovakia - Ikar Portugal – Relogio d’Agua Turkey – Dogan Hungary – 21 Szazad Romania – Editura Trei Bulgaria – Ex Libris Taiwan – Global Group Holdings Serbia - Evro Spain/world – Planeta Mexico

To date, rights have been licensed in 29 foreign markets!!

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