LOOP TRACKS
Book ID/图书代码: 01899521C00015
English Summary/英文概要: It’s 1978: the Auckland abortion clinic has been forced to close and sixteen-year-old Charlie has to fly to Sydney, but the plane is delayed on the tarmac. It’s 2019: Charlie’s tightly contained Wellington life with her grandson Tommy is interrupted by the unexpected intrusions of Tommy’s first girlfriend, Jenna, and the father he has never known, Jim. The year turns, and everything changes again.
Loop Tracks is a major New Zealand novel full of unexpected joy and written in real time against the progress of the Covid-19 pandemic, the New Zealand General Election and euthanasia referendum.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 那是 1978 年:奧克蘭的墮胎診所被迫關閉,16 歲的查莉不得不飛往雪梨,但飛機在停機坪上延誤了。 現在是 2019 年:查莉與孫子湯米在惠靈頓的平穩生活被湯米的第一個女朋友珍娜和他素不相識的父親吉姆的意外闖入打斷了。接著一年接著一年,一切又再度被改變。
本書是紐西蘭一部重要的小說,充滿了意想不到的歡樂,作者寫作本書時正逢 Covid-19 大流行、紐西蘭大選和安樂死公投。本書將重大的社會議題與平凡小人物的生活和艱難的選擇緊密交織在一起。
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Awards/获奖情况:★本書在紐西蘭於七月出版,現在已經二刷!
★澳洲版將在2022年三月推出。
★本書作者曾獲得莉莉安‧伊妲‧史密斯獎(Lilian Ida Smith Award)、人民選擇圖書獎,並曾入圍2012 年紐西蘭郵政圖書大獎
「想像一本關於墮胎權利的小說。現在想像一下,這也是一部關於成癮、安樂死、自閉症、衰老、收養、性侵、同意、數學、小學教學和音樂循環的小說,背景設定於Covid-19 大流行期間的惠靈頓。想像一下,這不是關於這些的小說,你可以從那個描述中思考太多——而是對代際創傷的強大而優雅的挖掘。這就是Sue Orr 的 Loop Tracks。」—Holly Walker, Stuff Magazine
「Loop Tracks 是一個優雅、細膩、深刻的故事,關於勝利。」
—Stephanie Johnson, NZ Herald
「現在和過去像平行時空般相互折疊:有路徑和迴聲,但也有可以做出選擇的觸電時刻。所有這一切成就了一個富有同情心、堅定不移的故事。 Loop Tracks 是一項重大成就。」
—Sam Finnemore, NZ Listener
「Loop Tracks 是一部非凡的小說,文筆優美而敏感,它展示了過去的秘密可能會如此不公平地侵犯現在。」
—Paddy Richardson, Reading Room
「Loop Tracks 是一部及時且出人意料的小說,關於自由和責任——關於一個女人被迫將她的孤獨和無人支持的選擇,當作是一個複雜的錯誤,也關於她為了幫助她的家人和她自己,而必須面對的過去。」
— 紐西蘭作家Elizabeth Knox
「這個虛構的代際故事將向廣大讀者講述對我們未來至關重要的選擇。」
— Dame Margaret Sparrow
Loop Tracks by Sue Orr has been optioned by Warner Bros for development as a TV series! They expect to produce it in NZ but for an international audience. No timeline yet.
About the Author/作者介绍: SUE ORR 著有兩部短篇小說《晚宴禮儀》(Etiquette for a Dinner Party)和《大衣之下》(From Under the Overcoat),以及小說《派對路線》(The Party Li)。 《晚宴禮儀》在 2007 年獲得莉莉安‧伊妲‧史密斯獎(Lilian Ida Smith Award),《大衣之下》入圍了 2012 年紐西蘭郵政圖書大獎並獲得人民選擇圖書獎。 2011 年,Sue 是 Buddle Findlay Sargeson 研究員。 她在惠靈頓維多利亞大學國際現代文學學院教授創意寫作,並擁有該大學的創意寫作博士學位和碩士學位。 2016 年,她為奧克蘭的婦女避難所建立了一個創意寫作計劃。 2018 年搬到惠靈頓後,她加入了「寫下你在哪裡慈善信託基金會」 (Write Where You Are Charitable Trust),在惠靈頓監獄和婦女庇護所教授創意寫作。她與丈夫 Adrian Orr 住在惠靈頓。
SUE ORR is the author of two books of short stories, Etiquette for a Dinner Party and From Under the Overcoat, and the novel The Party Line. Etiquette for a Dinner Party won the Lilian Ida Smith Award in 2007, and From Under the Overcoat was shortlisted for the NZ Post Book Awards 2012 and won the People’s Choice Award. In 2011, Sue was a Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellow. She teaches creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington, and holds a PhD and Masters in Creative Writing from that university. In 2016, she established a creative writing programme for Women’s Refuge in Auckland. On moving to Wellington in 2018, she joined the Write Where You Are Charitable Trust to teach creative writing in Wellington prisons and women’s refuges. She lives in Wellington with her husband, Adrian Orr.
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