COMING SOON: THE FLOOD
Book ID/图书代码： 10710019C00002
English Summary/英文概要： Is Jerusalem the centre of the world or the place where it will end? For the people of this novel set around 1960 in the divided city, it is the end. There is no way out. In front of them lies the border and no man’s land; behind lies a nondescript little town and the road they won’t take away to normality and the sea.
They are a colourful crew: refugees, Jews, Christians, run-away monks, nuns, a restless polyglot kind of family - intellectual, artistic, theatrical - who, by choice or accident, find themselves living at a dead end, near or even right on top of the volatile border that cuts the city in two. The wound is still new and won’t heal. So their lives, loves and jealousies are shadowed by the ghosts of the people who, ten years before, abandoned the houses where they now live, and the instability they experience in their lives grows out of this landscape and its history.
The Eichmann trial, and preparations for it, pervades the book, as do preparations for an outdoor staging of the medieval mystery play Noah’s Flood, adapted and set in contemporary Jerusalem. The play contains a turbulent, quixotic, but also serious warning. The waters could be here any day and who knows how to build an ark?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 耶路撒冷是世界的中心，还是世界的尽头?对于这部小说的读者来说，故事发生在1960年前后的分裂的城市，这就是结局。没有出路了。在他们面前有国境和无人之地。背后是一个毫无特色的小镇，他们不会把这条路带到正常的大海。他们是一群色彩缤纷的船员:难民、犹太人、基督教徒、逃跑的僧侣、修女、一个不安分的通晓多国语言的家庭——知识分子、艺术家、戏剧家——他们或有意或无意地发现自己生活在一条死胡同里，就在把这座城市一分为二的动荡边境附近，甚至就在那里。这伤口还是新的，不会愈合。因此，他们的生活、爱情和妒忌被十年前抛弃他们的、现在居住在那个屋子里的人们的幽灵所笼罩，他们生活中所经历的不稳定源于这片土地及其历史。艾希曼的审判及其准备工作贯穿全书，就像中世纪神秘剧《诺亚的洪水》的室外舞台准备工作一样。《诺亚的洪水》改编自《当代的耶路撒冷》，故事发生在当代的耶路撒冷。这出戏充满了动荡、唐吉诃德式的情节，但也发出了严重的警告。洪水可能在这里的任何一天都会爆发，但是谁知道如何建造一个方舟呢?（WYL）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 1936年出生于维也纳的兹维•亚根多夫和家人逃到了英国，以躲避纳粹。他在牛津大学接受教育，后来移居耶路撒冷，在希伯来大学教授英语和戏剧研究。
Born in 1936 in Vienna, Zvi Jagendorf fled to England with his family to escape the Nazis. Educated at Oxford, he later emigrated to Jerusalem where he taught English and Theatre Studies at the Hebrew University.
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