TRAVELLING IN A STRANGE LAND

Book ID/图书代码： 02000018C00004

English Summary/英文概要： I am entering the frozen land, although to which country it belongs I cannot say.

The world is shrouded in snow. Transport has ground to a halt. Tom must venture out into a transformed and treacherous landscape to collect his son, sick and stranded in student lodgings.

But on this solitary drive from Belfast to Sunderland, Tom will be drawn into another journey, one without map or guide, and is forced to chart pathways of family history haunted by memory and clouded in regret.

Written in spare, crystalline prose by one of the most important voices in contemporary Irish writing, Travelling in a Strange Land is a work of exquisite loss and transformative grace. It is a novel about fathers and sons, grief, memory, family and love; about the gulfs that lie between us and those we love, and the wrong turns that we take on our way to find them.

Chinese Summary/中文概要：

凯利集团(Kerry Group)年度爱尔兰小说获奖者

备受推崇的获奖作家大卫帕克所创作的这部新小说，以冰天冻地的情景为故事背景，对一位父亲的内心生活和陷入了危机的家庭，进行了细致入微地刻画。

2018年爱尔兰时报年度图书奖

我进入了这片冰封的土地，虽然我不知道它属于哪个国家。

整个世界被雪笼罩着。一切交通运输均已陷入瘫痪状态。汤姆必须冒险去一个危险的地方接回，因生病而滞留在学生宿舍的儿子。

但在这段从贝尔法斯特到桑兰德的孤独之行中，汤姆将会被拉入至另一个没有地图导航，由萦绕的记忆和无尽的悔恨，被迫绘制出的一段家族史过往旅程。

由当代爱尔兰文坛最具分量之一的作家，以简洁而又沁心的散文写就，《异域之行》是一部有关伤逝和蜕变的精湛之作。这是一本关于父亲和儿子，悲伤，记忆，家庭和爱；关于我们和所爱的人之间的鸿沟，以及我们在开始寻找他们时所犯的错误的故事。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：This lucidly written and deceptively simple narrative by the highly regarded Northern Irish novelist David Park is the story of a troubled journey into the self and out into the world again, towards some glimmer of generosity and redemption (Sunday Times)

Breathtaking ... A dark secret and a frozen journey through the fraught terrain of parenthood drive this brave, exhilarating novel . Every sentence in Parks’s book is felt. The author has weighed up each word and considered every image, electing only those that carry sufficient freight to bear the reader to his intended destination Park takes this emotional terrain of parenthood as both his setting and his subject, and creates something exhilaratingly brave and powerful from its jagged peaks and troughs (Claire Kilroy Guardian)

Sombre, but unsolemn, with a redemptive, tingling finale, this is a small book bursting with big emotions (Daily Mail)

A deeply felt novel . of personal tragedy and failure . There is no false piety in this sometimes desperate, always measured novel, but a compassionately observed, manifestly flawed redemption (Irish Times)

An extraordinary novel, at once startling and quietly brilliant. David Park is a one of Ireland’s great novelists and this is, perhaps, his best (Roddy Doyle)

Italian to Bollati, Danish to Jensen & Dalgaard, Turkish to Is-Kultur Set in a frozen winter landscape, the new novel from the prize-winning, acclaimed author David Park is a psychologically astute, expertly crafted portrait of a father’s inner life and a family in crisis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2018

About the Author/作者介绍： 大卫•帕克著有数部小说作品，其最近一部作品《诚实的委员》可谓饱受赞誉。他曾获有作家俱乐部“首部小说作品奖”、巴斯爱尔兰艺术奖文学奖、并三次荣获阿尔斯特大学颁发的马克利亚文学奖。作者曾两次入围爱尔兰年度小说。作者现与其妻子和两个孩子居住在北爱尔兰唐郡。

David Park has written seven books, most recently the hugely acclaimed The Truth Commissioner. He was the winner of the Authors’ Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature and three-times winner of the University of Ulster’s McCrea Literary Award. He has twice been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award. He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland with his wife and two children.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights Sold: Danish; Italian rights sold to Bollati Spanish rights sold to Planeta—Mexico

Rights sold: Italian to Bollati, Danish to Jensen & Dalgaard, Turkish to Is-Kultur, Spanish to Planeta Mexico Set in a frozen winter landscape, the new novel from the prize-winning, acclaimed author David Park is a psychologically astute, expertly crafted portrait of a father’s inner life and a family in crisis

Rights sold: Danish (Jensen &Dalgaard), Italian (Bollati) Spanish (Seix Barral , Planet Mexico), Turkish (Kultur Yayinlari Is-Turk)

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