HUMAN TRACES
Book ID/图书代码： 00200005B09248
English Summary/英文概要： Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human.
As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. Their search is made urgent by the case of Jacques’s brother Olivierm, for whose severe illness no name has yet been found.
As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the novel rises to a climax in which the question of what it means to be alive.
Salley Vickers, Times
’...The novel’s canvas is spacious...the cast of characters encompassing, the themes unashamedly philosophical, the whole enterprise gloriously large.’
Philip Hoare, Daily Mail
‘Its ambition is admirable; its entertainment value - lengthy scientific theses and all - is equally undeniable.’
Trevor Lewis in The Sunday Times
‘the novel’s intelligent prose and compassionate belief in human betterment shine through’
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事开始于1876年，当时的Jacques Rebiere 和Thomas Midwinter两人都只有十六岁，来自于不同的国家，和背景完全不同的家庭。他们因想要探索大脑是如何工作运转，发疯是不是人类的一种代价而走到了一起。
作为精神科医师，他们共同的志愿让两人从维多利亚悲惨的疯人院来到巴黎著名Charcot教授人头济济的演讲大厅；从加里福尼亚的马德雷山脉到非洲还未开发的大草原。因Jacques的兄弟Olivierm的得了一种人类还未知的病症，他们的研究进程更显得尤其紧急。
随着前一世纪的慢慢褪色，第一次世界大战彻底分离了欧洲，小说的高潮将人性的意义栩栩如生的表达了出来。
Awards/获奖情况：An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope (Evening Standard)
Faulks is beyond doubt a master (Financial Times)
His most ambitious novel yet... Love, loyalty, courage, compassion, goodness...these are the poles around which his always skilful storytelling revolves (Independent)
Shocking and enlightening...touching and affecting (Daily Mail)
He is the best novelist of his generation (Scotsman)
About the Author/作者介绍： Sebastian Faulks has written seven novels, including Birdsong(1993). He is also the author of a biographical study, The Fatal Englishman(1996).
Sebastian Faulks至今已攥写了七本小说，包括1993年的《Birdsong》。他还是1996年自传研究《The Fatal Englishman》一书的作者。
Format:HARDCOVER
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