BLOOD SPORTS: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 12760005B06674

English Summary/英文概要： A canadian bestseller. written with the cunning of alice munro and the twisted violence of stephen king, blood sports explores the brutal edges of complicity, where silence is lethal, and secrets can pull down everyone you love

Blood Sports follows the tortured fates of a few of the denizens of the Downtown East Side of Vancouver, the junkie hellhole of North America. They are young, streetwise, twisted souls caught up in drugs, prostitution, porn, and worse.

In the novella "Contact Sports" in Eden Robinson’s award-winning collection Traplines, Tom Bauer—an epileptic, 16-year-old slacker—and his mother Christine were living in east Vancouver when Tom’s cousin Jeremy moved in with them. When Jeremy becomes controlling and abusive, Tom makes him leave. They play an increasingly violent game of cat-and-mouse until Jeremy threatens to hurt Tom’s mother. Tom capitulates and lets Jeremy move back in.

Blood Sports is set five years later in Vancouver in 1998. Christine has disappeared. Tom has hooked up with fellow ex-junkie Paulina, and they have recently had a baby named Melody when Jeremy and his henchmen reach out to traumatize them once more. Tom comes home from his job at a corner store to find Paulie and Mel missing, and two thugs waiting for him. The Kafkaesque nightmare that ensues would seem to have no place in the idyllic setting often referred to as Lotusland. By the end of the book, it is hard to think of the west coast—or human relationships—in the same way again.

Using a virtuoso array of voices and techniques, Eden has created a literary thriller packed with black humour that compels readers to turn the page in order to put together the pieces of the puzzle she has created. Whenever you think it can’t get stranger, it does—right up until the final surprise: Tom’s survival as a much stronger and wiser, although physically and mentally scarred—human being.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《殘酷運動》描述了溫哥華市中心的東區的一處，北美的癮君子地獄般的地方，一些命運多舛的外籍居民的生活。他們年輕，流落街頭，沉迷於毒品而變得靈魂扭曲，從事賣淫，色情甚至更糟的活動。
在這部“劇烈性運動”類型的短篇小說，Eden Robinson獲獎的小說故事集《Traplines》中，Tom Bauer —— 一位癲癇病患者，16歲大的懶蟲 —— 和他的母親Christine住在溫哥華東區，當時Tom的表親Jeremy搬來與他們同住。當Jeremy逐漸變得失控和滿口髒話時，Tom讓她離開了。他們開始玩起了一種貓捉老鼠般的殘酷遊戲，直到Jeremy威脅要傷害Tom的母親。Tom屈從了並讓Jeremy搬了回來。
《殘酷運動》將故事背景設置在五年後的1988年的溫哥華。Christine已經消失不見了。Tom和前癮君子Paulina的同夥混在一起，而當他們最近有了一個叫Melody的孩子，Jeremy和他的手下決定要再次動手。Tom從他打工的拐角商店回家的路上，發現了Paulie和失蹤的Mel，兩個暴徒正在那裡等著他。一場噩夢正朝他襲來，看上去似乎這世上沒有一塊淨土可以安生。在小說的結尾處，很難想像在地球的西海岸處—— 還是人類的關係—— 同樣上演著這樣的故事。
運用嫺熟優美的文字表述和寫作技巧，Eden創作了這部充滿黑色幽默的驚悚小說，吸引讀者去翻開下一頁去解開作者筆下的謎題。每當你覺得它不再變得那麼陌生時，它卻會給你帶來最後的驚喜：Tom頑強的生存了下來，並且他變得更加堅強和聰明，雖然身心受到創傷，—— 但卻過上了正常人的生活。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：Right sold:
Canada: McClelland & Stewart, Jan 2006
Film: Slanted Wheel

“Like Leonard Cohen, Robinson combines a variety of narrative forms and conflicting styles with such a high degree of technical virtuosity that the very act of reading a cracked and splintered narrative becomes spellbinding, addictive, unstoppable, until the final payoff causes a reader to loop back to the first page and start in reading it again in a quite different and larger way.” — THE GLOBE AND MAIL

“Eden Robinson writes with the violent beauty of a seasoned knifefighter…. She writes with a cool economy, a parsed precision; no wasted words, no wasted motion. In her hands, language is a weapon that can leave you bleeding, unsure of just how you were cut.” — NATIONAL POST

“A gripping page-turner of a tale that should have Quentin Tarantino knocking down her door.” — THE CALGARY HERALD

“Blood Sports is both startlingly original and highly emotionally engaging.” — WINNIPEG FREE PRESS

About the Author/作者介绍： Eden Victoria Lena Robinson(生於1968年1月19日)，加拿大的小說家和短篇小說作家。出生在（加拿大西部）不列顛哥倫比亞省的Kitamaat，她是Haisla & Heiltsuk印第安原住民之一。她在維多利亞大學和英國哥倫比亞大學接受教育。Robinson四部短篇小說合集《Traplines》（1995年），獲得了專為英聯邦作家最佳原作而設的，英國Winifred Holtby獎。這部作品還被《紐約時報》列入年度優秀讀物和編輯選擇獎。《Monkey Beach/猴岛》，是Robinso備受讚譽的第一本小說，獲得了B.C.布克小說獎，2000年入圍吉勒文學獎和總督獎，並曾被提名都柏林文學獎。
Eden Robinson is a Haisla woman who grew up near Kitimat, British Columbia. Her previous collection of stories, Traplines, was awarded the Winifred Holtby Prize for the best first work of fiction by a Commonwealth writer and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Notable Book of the Year. Monkey Beach, Robinson’s acclaimed first novel, won the B.C. Book Prize for Fiction, was a finalist for the 2000 Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, and was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：RIGHTS SOLD Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2006 US eBook: Open Road

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