VIRGINIA IS FOR LOVERS

Book ID/图书代码： 11701219C00043

English Summary/英文概要： In 1985, Derek and Nancy Haysom were brutally murdered in their home in Virginia. Their daughter Elizabeth Haysom and her German boyfriend Jens Söring were sentenced to life for the double murder after a long investigation and a painful lawsuit. Elizabeth has explained that it was Jens Söring who carried out the murders. Jens Söring has stood by the claim that he originally took the blame in order to protect Elizabeth, and because he thought that he as the son of a diplomat would be able to claim immunity, but that it actually was Elizabeth who murdered the parents. The question of who actually committed the crime remains unanswered. Mr. Up Front, the narrator of the novel himself describes the novel as fiction built on the skeleton of reality. He views himself as a paparazzo who preys on the lives of famous people and on the enormous public appetite for secrets and mysteries. Mr. Up Front finds himself confronted with a murder mystery … but in reality, it is the time before the double murder, what led to it, that intrigues him. Mr. Up Front calls the genre paparazzi literature. And he maneuvers the four protagonists Elizabeth, Jens, Nancy and Derek through his story as though they were horses and he the coachman. What is his own motive and his own vulnerability? He longs for company – he is lonely, and the sight of Elizabeth in the TV-transmitted lawsuit has made him fall in love.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1985年，Derek HaysomNancy Haysom在弗吉尼亚州的家中被残忍杀害。经过长时间的调查和痛苦的诉讼，他们的女儿Elizabeth Haysom和她的德国男友Jens Söring因杀人罪被判终身监禁。Elizabeth辩称凶手是Jens Söring。Jens Söring则坚称他最初承担责任是为了保护Elizabeth，因为他认为作为外交官的儿子有豁免权，但实际上是Elizabeth杀害了她的父母。究竟是谁犯下了这一罪行？这个问题到现在仍然没有答案。小说的叙述者Up Front先生说该小说是建立在现实框架之上的。他将自己视为狗仔队专门探查名人的生活，以及公众对秘密和神秘事物的巨大兴趣。Up Front先生面对的是一起神秘的谋杀……但在现实中，他真正感兴趣的是谋杀案之前发生了什么。Up Front先生称这类文学作品为狗仔队文学。他让四个主角在他的故事中自由发挥，仿佛他们是马，而他是马车夫。他自己的动机和弱点是什么？他渴望有人陪伴——他很孤独。当他在电视转播的诉讼中看到Elizabeth时便坠入了爱河。（LYR）

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About the Author/作者介绍： Christina Hesselholdt，生于1962年，在丹麦创作学院接受教育，并在那里执教多年。她的处女作《厨房、坟墓和风景》于1991年出版。她最近出版的作品包括2015年的《陪伴》和2016年的《薇薇安》。 Christina Hesselholdt凭借其小说获得过多个文学奖项，最近的包括2010年的评论家奖和2017年的丹麦广播最佳小说奖（获奖作品《薇薇安》）。

Christina Hesselholdt (b. 1962) is cand.phil. in Literary Criticism and educated at The Danish Writing Academy, where she herself later taught for many year. Her first book, The Kitchen, the Tomb and the Landscape was published in 1991. Her most recently published works are Companions (2015) and the documentary novel Vivian (2016) about the street photographer Vivian Maier, which both have been sold to various European publishers. Christina Hesselholdt has received several literary prizes for her novels, most recently The Critic’s Prize (2010) and the Danish Broadcasting’s Best Novel Prize 2017 for Vivian .

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