TAPES OF THE RIVER DELTA
Book ID/图书代码： 11712017C00005
English Summary/英文概要： Unsure of his origins, Theodore Shortcourse is betrayed in love and subject to dark forces. Along with his nemesis Bain Cross and Pax Sheehy, the moral guardian of his generation, Theo is overshadowed by his mother, who was the victim of a crime that no one dares speak about.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 对自己血统的质疑以及对爱情的背叛。Theo Shortcourse四处瞎转。Theo总是活在他充满魅力的侄子Bain的阴影下。如今Bain是爱尔兰政府中最有权势的人物，而Theo则是被通缉的谋杀犯。
当他躲在河口终点时，Theo回想起自己的生活，这是一个围绕着血统与部落、政治、教会和法律、欲望、背叛、暴力和罪恶复杂主题的故事，而这些都反映了现代爱尔兰渐渐在破灭的希望。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：https://soundcloud.com/clarefm/acts-of-allegiance-to-hit-the-small-screenAnother good review from Italy: https://thrillernord.it/le-conseguenze-del-cuore/
About the Author/作者介绍： Peter Cunningham (born 10 May 1947, Dublin) is an Irish novelist. He grew up in Waterford was educated at Waterpark School, Glenstal Abbey School and University College Dublin. He worked as an accountant and a trader of commodities until 1986 when his first novel was published. Titled ’Noble Lord’, it was a thriller, written under the pseudonym Peter Lauder. A further four thrillers followed.
In 1993, a novel, ’Who Trespass Against Us’ dealt with the unexpected death of a child.
Four subsequent novels, known as the Monument novels, are set in Monument, a fictionalized version of Cunningham’s hometown Waterford. They are: ’Tapes of the River Delta’, ’Consequences of the Heart’, ’Love In One Edition’ and ’The Sea and the Silence’. In the Monument novels Cunningham fuses political material with psychological realism and a nascent, lyrical sensitivity to place, in this way winning an international reputation as a writer of highly crafted plots and enigmatic dreaminess.
In 2003, ’The Taoiseach’, dealt with current Irish political events, based on the life of Irish premier Charles Haughey.
In 2010, a satirical novel dealing with the collapse of Ireland’s economy, ’Capital Sins’, was published. Peter Cunningham is a member of Aosdána, the Irish academy of arts and letters, and lives in County Kildare.
Format:HARDCOVER
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Turkish rights have sold in Sister Caravaggio and German rights in the other two sold to Berlin Verlag in the mid to late 1990s and French rights in Consequences of the Heart to Calman Levy in 2001.
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