BLUE NUDE
Book ID/图书代码： 01240005B04522
English Summary/英文概要： In this sensual, intimate novel, prizewinning poet and bestselling author Elizabeth Rosner tells the engrossing and timely story of an artist and his model, and the moral and political implications of their relationship.
Born in the shadow of postwar Germany, Danzig is a once-prominent painter who now teaches at an art institute in San Francisco. But while Danzig shares wisdom and technique with students, his own canvases remain mysteriously empty. When a compelling new model named Merav poses for his class, Danzig, unsettled by her beauty, senses that she may be the muse he has been waiting for.
The Israeli-born granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, Merav is a former art student who discovered her abilities as a model while studying in Tel Aviv. To escape the danger and violence of the Middle East, she moved to California, where she found work posing for artists around the Bay Area. Now challenged by Danzig’s German accent and the menace it suggests, Merav must decide how to overcome her fears. Before they can create anything new together, both artist and model are forced to examine the history they carry.
Like a paintbrush in motion, Blue Nude moves back and forth through time, recounting the events that have brought Danzig and Merav together: their disparate upbringings, their creative awakenings, and their similarly painful, often catastrophic, love lives. The novel ultimately unites them in the present and, through the transcendent power of artistic expression, moves them forward to the point of reconciliation, redemption, and revival.
Using words to paint the landscapes of body and soul, Elizabeth Rosner conveys the art of survival, the complexity of history, the form of exile, the shape of desire, and the color of intimacy. Blue Nude is the narrative equivalent of a masterpiece of fine art.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Danzig，德國人，應該是最親愛的家人在納粹全面執行「掃除猶太人」的時候，一個擔任重要幹部，一個消極封閉，一個採用激烈的方式結束自己的生命。
Merav，以色列人，納粹大屠殺存活者的後代，和好友一起在軍中服役的時候，好友在一場爆炸案中身亡，而她的美麗卻也變成她的宿罪？
歷史立場對立的兩個人在舊金山相遇，Danzig 扛著歷史和家人沉重的包袱，已經很久都拿不起畫筆創作了，而從祖母、母親那感染來的恐怖回憶，加上自身的經歷， Merav 已經無法再相信別人了。藝術，究竟能帶給這樣相異的兩個人，怎樣的慰藉與救贖？
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About the Author/作者介绍： Having grown up in an environment marked by multiple languages, Elizabeth Rosner has always had an ear for differing voices. The Speed of Light is her poignant debut novel in which three characters, each with his or her own distinct voice, come to terms with a dark past in order to reconnect with the present and with one another.
Elizabeth Rosner 除了創作小說之外，她本身也是詩人，作品獲得了許多獎項與媒體的肯定。第一本小說 The Speed of Light 是世界暢銷書，除了獲選為 San Francisco Chronicle 2006 年度最佳小說，也被知名影集 X-File 女主角 Gillian Anderson 選為她執導的的處女作，相關電影的製作已經在進行。
• 2002 Harold U. Ribalow Prize
• Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in Fiction
• Selected for the Hadassah National Book Club 2003
• Book Sense 76 Pick in 2001
• Winner of Prix France Bleu Gironde 2004
• Lecture Series in NY State, co-sponsored by the NY State Writers Institute
• Finalist for Prix Femina (France) 2003
• Selected for Peoria Reads! One City, One Book, 2004
• Selected for Hadassah National Book Club, 2003
• Best Boks of 2006 named by the San Francisco Chronicle
完整的作者背景與創作紀錄可至專屬網站
www.elizabethrosner.com。
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