THE LOST CHILD
Book ID/图书代码： 11701218C00123
English Summary/英文概要： In the tradition of Jean Rhys’ WIDE SARGASSO SEA and J.M. Coetzee’s FOE, Caryl Phillips reinvents Emily Brontë’s masterpiece WUTHERING HEIGHTS as a lyrical tale of orphans and outcasts, absence and hope, and the exigencies of love. A sweeping novel spanning generations, THE LOST CHILD tells the story of young Heathcliff’s life before Mr. Earnshaw brought him home to his family; the Brontë sisters and their wayward brother, Branwell; Monica, whose father forces her to choose between her family and the foreigner she loves at Oxford in the late 1950’s; and a boy’s disappearance into the wildness of the moors and the brother he leaves behind.
Award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips deftly spins these disparate lives—bound by the past and struggling to liberate themselves from it—into a stunning literary work. Phillips has been called “in a league with Toni Morrison and V.S. Naipaul,” (Donna Seaman, Booklist) and his work is charged with the complexities of migration, alienation and displacement.
Haunting and heartbreaking, THE LOST CHILD transforms a classic into a profound story that is singularly its own.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 与Jean Rhys笔下的《梦回海藻》（被认为是经典小说《简爱》的前传）一样，作者Caryl Phillips把Emily Brontë的杰作《呼啸山庄》重新塑造成一个关于孤儿和被抛弃者的抒情故事。《丢失的孩子》是一部跨越几代人的巨著，讲述了年轻的Heathcliff在Earnshaw先生带他回家之前的生活；Brontë姐妹和他们任性的兄弟Branwel；Monica，她的父亲迫使她在家庭和所爱的外国人之间做出选择……
获奖小说家Caryl Phillips巧妙地将这些截然不同的生活融入到一部令人惊叹的文学作品。Phillips与Toni Morrison 和 V.S. Naipaul齐名，他的作品被赋予了移民、疏远和流离失所的复杂性。
《丢失的孩子》把一部经典作品变成了一部意义深远的故事，让人难以忘怀，伤心欲绝。（LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：Caryl Phillips开创了一种令人着迷的方式，用来描述人类经验中难以捉摸的部分。他通过历史折射出现实，通过文学折射出生活，通过Brontes家族折射出20世纪70年代英格兰的甜蜜和悲伤。他创作一个既令人吃惊、又令人感动的故事，高度原创。——James Lasdun
Caryl Phillips有着不可思议的叙事能力和同情心，将过去和现在编织在一起，将经典英国文学和蛮荒的世界编织在一起，以动人的方式讲述了当代的英语生活。他通过笔下的每个人物表达出有深度的想法。继《丢失的孩子》之后，英国文学看似更丰富、更神秘、更人性化。——Pico Iyer
“Caryl Phillips has found a fascinating way of writing about the elusive parts of human experience that have to do with loss, absence, yearning, and the struggle of marginalized individuals to build a viable existence. Refracting the present through the past, life through literature, the sweetness and sadness of 1970’s England through the austere grandeur of the Brontes’ world, he creates a highly original narrative that is both startling and strangely moving.” James Lasdun
“With uncanny intimacy, eloquence, and compassion, Caryl Phillips stitches together past and present, the world of classic English literature and of hardscrabble, contemporary English life more movingly than ever before, speaking through every one of his characters with humbling depth and understanding. The simple, startling result is that, after The Lost Child, English literature looks richer, more mysterious and more human.” Pico Iyer
About the Author/作者介绍： Caryl Phillips出生于St Kitts，现居伦敦和纽约。他曾为电视、广播、戏剧和电影院撰稿，著有十四部小说和非小说作品。他曾入围了曼布克奖，并获得了包括马丁路德金纪念奖、英联邦作家奖等在内的各类奖项。Caryl Phillips was born in St Kitts and now lives in London and New York. He has written for television, radio, theatre and cinema and is the author of fourteen works of fiction and non-fiction. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and has won awards including Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and also a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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