ALL AMONG THE BARLEY
Book ID/图书代码： 11701218C00016
English Summary/英文概要： From the Costa-shortlisted and Baileys-longlisted author, Melissa Harrison, comes a major new novel. Set on a farm in Suffolk just before the Second World War, it introduces a girl on the cusp of adulthood.
The autumn of 1933 is the most beautiful Edie Mather can remember, although the Great War still casts its shadow over the fields and villages around her beloved home, Wych Farm.
Constance FitzAllen arrives from London to document fading rural traditions and beliefs. For Edie, who must soon face the unsettling pressures of adulthood, the glamorous and worldly outsider appears to be a godsend. But there is more to the older woman than meets the eye.
As harvest time approaches and pressures mount on the entire community, Edie must find a way to trust her instincts and save herself from disaster.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “鸿篇巨制” 乔恩·麦格雷戈(JON MCGREGOR)
“难以忘怀” 《泰晤士报》 THE TIMES
“惊人之作”《卫报》 GUARDIAN
“震撼”《金融时报》FINANCIAL TIMES
欧盟文学奖得主
“年度最佳图书”（英国）《新政治家周刊》，《观察家》，《爱尔兰时报》，英国广播公司历史杂志
伊迪·马瑟(Edie Mather)所记得的1933年秋色宜人，尽管战争的阴云在她心爱的家乡威奇农场(Wych Farm)上空密布。从伦敦来到这里的康斯坦斯·菲扎伦(Constance FitzAllen)来到这里记录日渐凋敝的乡村景象。对伊迪来说，不久他要面对成人世界心绪不宁的压力，这个迷人而世故的局外人的出现，简直就是上天的恩赐。但这位迷人的熟女并不像看上去那么简单。随着收获时间的临近，整个村庄的压力越来越大，伊迪必须找到一种方法来相信自己的直觉，把自己从灾难中解脱出来。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：A work of rare magic’ Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk
‘What a brilliant and timely novel All Among The Barley is. Deeply evocative of a historical moment - rural England between the wars, before mechanisation - it is also, unmistakably, about questions that press hard on us now, above all the dangers of nationalism, and how easily a love of place can be corrupted into something dark and exclusionary. This is an important book by a writer of great gifts’ Robert Macfarlane
‘Melissa Harrison’s All Among the Barley is an incredible evocation of one particular corner of rural England in the 1930s. Powerful and subtle and richly detailed, this is a book that inhabits its territory, knows its people, and follows its own haunting logic. Some of the great themes of English life are tackled here – class division, the patriarchy, folklore and psychosis, creeping fascism – but rather than being simply ticked off they are instead woven into the narrative with great subtlety and beauty. I’ve been following Melissa Harrison’s work with interest for some time now, and with this novel she’s done what I’ve long suspected she would: she’s written a masterpiece’ Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13
‘In All Among the Barley, Melissa Harrison has created a central character to rival Cassandra in I Capture the Castle. A remarkable and haunting book’ Evie Wyld
About the Author/作者介绍： 梅丽莎·哈里森(Melissa Harrison) 1975年生于萨里郡，在牛津大学学习英国文学，1996年以一级荣誉学位(first class honours)毕业。在进入杂志行业前，她在非小说出版行业工作了几年，最终她的第一部小说《土地》(Clay)于2013年1月由布鲁姆斯伯里出版社(Bloomsbury)出版。
2010年，梅丽莎获得约翰·缪尔信托基金会野生写作奖，并于2014年成为格莱斯顿图书馆驻馆作家。作为布里斯托尔创意节的一部分，她首次发表了柯勒律治①文学的演讲，在南岸的艺术节上发表了关于风景和英国特色的演讲，梅丽莎曾在英国广播4台的《开放之书》和广播2台的《艺术秀》节目中作客。
梅丽莎于2015年4月推出的第二部小说“山楂成熟时”，于2016年获得百利女性小说奖，并在2015年入围科斯塔小说奖。此外，作者还是《泰晤士报》自然笔记本（Nature Notes）专栏撰稿作家。梅丽莎对英国景色撰写的沉思录《雨季：英伦风情的四次漫步》于2016年获得温赖特自然与旅游写作奖。
①塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治（Samuel Taylor Coleridge，1772-1834年），英国诗人和评论家，他一生是在贫病交困和鸦片成瘾的阴影下度过的，诗歌作品相对较少。尽管存在这些不利因素，柯勒律治还是坚持创作，确立了其在幻想浪漫诗歌方面的主要浪漫派诗人地位。Melissa Harrison is an author and critic who lives in South London. Her books have been shortlisted for prizes including the Costa Novel of the Year award, and longlisted for prizes including the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Encore Award, and the Wainwright Prize. Melissa writes a monthly Nature Notebook column in The Times and reviews books for publications including the Financial Times, The Times, Guardian, and Telegraph. All Among the Barley is her third novel.
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