ARTHUR AND GEORGE
Book ID/图书代码： 06580005B08645
English Summary/英文概要： Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, George remains in hardworking obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events which made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages. George Edjali?s father is Indian, his mother Scottish. When the family begins to receive vicious anonymous letters, many about their son, they put it down to racial prejudice. They appeal to the police, to no less than the Chief Constable, but to their dismay he appears to suspect George of being the letters? author. Then someone starts slashing horses and livestock. Again the police seem to suspect the shy, aloof Birmingham solicitor. He is arrested and, on the flimsiest evidence, sent to trial, found guilty and sentenced to seven years? hard labour. Arthur Conan Doyle, famous as the creator of the world?s greatest detective, is mourning his first wife (having been chastely in love for ten years with the woman who was to become his second) when he hears about the Edjali case. Incensed at this obvious miscarriage of justice, he is galvanised into trying to clear George?s name. With a mixture of detailed research and vivid imagination, Julian Barnes brings to life not just this long-forgotten case, but the inner lives of these two very different men. The reader sees them both with stunning clarity, and almost inhabits them as they face the vicissitudes of their lives, whether in the dock hearing a verdict of guilty, or trying to live an honourable life while desperately in love with another woman. This is a novel in which the events of a hundred years ago constantly set off contemporary echoes, a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race; about what we think, what we believe, and what we know.Julian Barnes has long been recognised as one of Britain?s most remarkable writers. While those already familiar with his work will enjoy its elegance, its wit, its profound wisdom about the human condition, Arthur & George will surely find him an entirely new audience.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 將19世紀神探福爾摩斯的作者柯南道爾埋藏已久的故事娓娓道來。
2005年12月誠品選書。
巴恩斯充滿推理偵探喜好與歷情感史的小說著作。英國BBC公司還錄製了該書的電子版。《獨立報》稱譽《亞瑟與喬治》是一部無可挑剔、極具藝術性的小說，因為巴恩斯史海鉤沉，再現了發生在廿世紀英國的「威厄雷村失控事件」（Great Wyrley Outrages），既巧妙緊貼真實案件的本來面目，又自如跳進虛構。這是一個典型的「替罪羊」懸案，喬治與其一家，被全村的人當成箭靶攻擊，造成冤獄，後來終於等到一位睿智的法官替他平反…巴恩斯描寫人性，入木三分。(TT)
Awards/获奖情况：*2005 Man Booker Prize short list.
* 2005 Man Booker Prize short list. (2005年布克獎得主John Banville《The Sea》，當年一起入圍的還有石黑一雄的《別讓我走》(Never Let Me Go))
* Winner of The Annual Best Foreign Novels, 21st Century,as chosen by the China Association for the Study of British Literature
* The Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year (nominee)
* International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards (nominee)
’This novel is Barnes at his best.’ -- P. D. James
將19世紀神探福爾摩斯的作者柯南道爾埋藏已久的故事娓娓道來。
2005年12月誠品選書。
About the Author/作者介绍： Julian Patrick Barnes (born January 19, 1946 in Leicester, England) is a contemporary English writer. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize (Flaubert’s Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005)). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. He lives in London, England.
Julian Barnes has long been recognised as one of Britain’s most remarkable writers. While those already familiar with his work will enjoy its elegance, its wit, its profound wisdom about the human condition, "Arthur & George" will surely find him an entirely new audience.
朱利安．巴恩斯是英國文壇中生代巨頭之一。作品屢次獲獎。第一部作品Metroland即獲得「毛姆小說獎」（Somerset Maugham Award）。三次獲布克獎提名分別是Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)、England, England (1998)與 Arthur & George (2005)。Talking it Over還曾獲得法國費米娜文學獎（Prix Femina）。朱利安擅長以幽默詼諧的手法將單純的故事帶入諷喻。朱利安‧巴恩斯亦以Dan Kavanagh的筆名寫了數本偵探小說。
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