ROSETTA
Book ID/图书代码： 07980005B09526
English Summary/英文概要： As a child, Rosetta is fascinated by words and loves being told stories. She thinks she is named after the Princess Rosetta of the fairytales, who married the King of the Peacocks and lived happily ever after. But when she finds that it is a mysterious small port town in Egypt that gave her her name, her interest in hieroglyphics is born. Years later, when Rose is an older, wiser and sadder woman, it is her love of language that saves her life. The French Revolution; the rise of the power of the English church; the battles for Egypt between the British and the French; the discovery of the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone in that same small port town - and above all the machinations of a rich, amoral, social- climbing member of the ’new’ aristocracy and the extraordinary characters that surround him - all whirlpool together to carry Rose into France and a shared moment with Napoleon Buonaparte, and into the dark, unknown world of North Africa in her search to understand the meaning of words, and to find a child of her own.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 兒時的蘿賽塔很喜歡文字，也喜歡聽別人講故事。她以為自己的名字，是取自童話中的公主。但是當她發現，自己的名字，實際上來自於一個神秘的小港口，她開始對象形文字產生興趣。多年之後，當蘿賽塔已經長成了一個更聰明，卻更悲慘的女人，沒想到，她對語言的這份愛，竟然得以拯救了她的生命。法國大革命期間，英國教會權力驚人的膨脹，在英法爭奪埃及的戰爭中，那個小港口的一塊石頭──「蘿賽塔石」上面，發現的象形文字，解碼了整個古埃及的文化！為富不仁新貴族們的陰謀、那些神奇的文字，像漩渦一樣攪在一起，把蘿賽塔帶到了法國，為了研究文字更深刻的涵意，她走進了北非的埃及，那個黑暗不為人所知、古老的世界，向她揭露更奧妙的秘密…(TT)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Barbara Ewing (born 1944) is a UK-based actress, playwright and novelist. Born in New Zealand, she graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a BA in English and Maori before coming to Britain in 1965 to train as an actress at RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in London. Barbara Ewing lives in London. She won the Bancroft Gold Medal at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She made her film debut in the horror film Torture Garden (1967) for Amicus Productions, followed by Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) with Christopher Lee for Hammer Films. Both movies were directed by Freddie Francis.
The television role for which she is best remembered is that of Bradley Hardacre’s mistress Agnes Fairchild in the Granada Television comedy series Brass, alongside Timothy West (1982-84). In 1986, she played Treen Dudgeon in the short-lived BBC series Comrade Dad, alongside George Cole and Doris Hare.
Her 1989 one-woman show, Alexandra Kollontai, about the only woman in Lenin’s cabinet in 1917 was a great hit in London, and at the Edinburgh and Sydney Festivals.
More recent TV appearances have included episodes of Casualty, Doctors and Holby City on the BBC, and The Bill and Peak Practice on ITV, as well as appearances in various adaptations of Ruth Rendell mysteries.
Ewing has written 7 novels to date:
Strangers (1978)
The Actresses (1997)
A Dangerous Vine (1999)
The Trespass (2002)
Rosetta (2005)
The Mesmerist (2007)
THE FRAUD (2009)
這位擁有英國皇家戲劇學院與紐西蘭威靈頓大學英國文學院雙料傲人學歷的知名女演員，除了戲劇成就卓越，文學著作亦有可觀，她豐富的表演背景，讓她的小說充滿了迷人的魅力，讓讀者猶如坐在劇場或螢光幕、銀幕前，目瞪口呆的欣賞她帶來的故事。
Barbara Ewing是英語世界家喻戶曉的老牌演員，也積極參與舞台劇的演出，年輕時從恐怖片起家的她，還曾經與飾演德古拉而爆紅的克利斯多夫˙李（三劍客、斷頭谷、魔戒、星際大戰等片的演員），合演過吸血鬼經典名片。她近年來積極參與電視劇的演出，持續在BBC有作品播放中。
Barbara Ewing迄今已有六部小說問世，創作質量兼具，也屢獲讀者青睞，登上暢銷書排行榜。明年四月，Barbara Ewing的最新力作THE FRAUD即將問世，相當受到各界期待。
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