LAST VOYAGE OF THE VALENTINA
Book ID/图书代码： 0120005B08632
English Summary/英文概要： Alba always feels like an outsider. She hardly knew her Italian mother and her English father acts as if Valentina never existed. She despises country life almost as much as she despises her stepmother and stepsisters. On board the houseboat named after her dead mother, Alba’s life is little more than a selfish search for fun and pleasure. But the discovery of her mother’s portrait sends the girl back to Italy to find her family - and the truth about Valentina. Amid the olive groves of the Amalfi coast, its balmy air rich with the scent of figs, a tale of deception and betrayal is waiting to be discovered. It is a tale that takes Alba into the past - but also gives her a new future.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Alba總覺得自己是個局外人，她幾乎不知道自己的義大利母親和英國父親的行徑，猶如Valentina從來沒有存在過一樣。她鄙視鄉村生活，就像她鄙視她的繼母和繼母的女兒。住在以她已故母親的名字命名的船屋上，Alba的生活除了獨自尋找快樂和風趣之外就沒別的什麼了。但是在Alba發現母親的肖像之後，這一切就發生了改變，她返回義大利，重新找到她的家，也瞭解了Valentina的真相。在橄欖樹成蔭的阿馬爾菲海岸線上，芳香的空氣中肆意著無花果的香味，這裡正有一場欺騙和背叛的故事要等待我們的女主人公去發現。這個故事將會把Alba帶回到過去，也為她開闢一個嶄新的未來。 這是SANTA MONTEFIORE的第五部小說，它展現了SANTA無限才華新的一面。SANTA透過不遺餘力地重塑六十年代多姿多彩的倫敦和烽火連天的義大利，編織了一部蘊涵著黑色懸念暗流的經典浪漫小說。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：From Publishers WeeklyLong-legged, lascivious Alba lives on a London houseboat, the Valentina, moored in 1971 London. She is the daughter of a WWII romance; her proper English father, Thomas Arbuckle, and stepmother ("the Buffalo") never mention her mysterious Italian mother—Valentina—who died when she was a baby. As a discovered sketch sparks Alba’s curiosity about her mother’s past, she takes up with literary agent Fitz Conroy, then breaks it off and goes to Italy to learn the truth about her past. Though this is Montefiore’s U.S. debut, more than three million copies of her books are in print in the EU (the press chat notes that Charles and Camilla "made their debut as a couple" at Montefiore’s wedding to historian Simon Sebag). Presumably, her EU translators were able to make lines like "Don’t talk, you fool. Kiss me," sound more seductive and surprising in other languages than they do in the King’s English.
About the Author/作者介绍： Santa Montefiore 1970年出生於英國。母親是英籍阿根廷人，她在英國埃克塞特大學學習西班牙語和義大利語。她和她的丈夫，歷史學家Simon Sebag Montefiore和兩個孩子住在倫敦。
Santa Montefiore was born in England in 1970 to an Anglo-Argentine mother, and read Spanish and Italian at Exeter University. After a year teaching English on an Argentine estancia, she spent much of the nineties in Buenos Aires. She lives in London with her husband, the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, and their two children.
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