THE ISLAND OF FOUR RIVERS
Book ID/图书代码： 1198.0505B09923
English Summary/英文概要： The Davis family, a disparate group of people with nothing in common but their mutual dislike, have been brought together by a crisis. Bill (‘Crabby’) Davis, the family patriarch, is desperately ill in hospital, felled by a stroke, and kept alive only by medical technology.
His family — his embittered and passive wife Dot, his pedantic son Henry, and long-estranged daughter Eleanor — must decide together when and how to end his life. Meanwhile, another narrative emerges and asserts itself: intrepid explorer Crabby Davis ranges like a true swashbuckling Victorian gentleman through the wilds of the South Pacific, keeping a vivid diary as he goes.
As the latter-day plight of the dysfunctional Davis family becomes more comically revealing under the pressure of having to make life-and-death decisions, so does the voyage of Crabby Davis become increasingly fantastical, until the parallels in the two narratives become impossible to ignore. When Crabby embarks on a final incredible quest to the source of the four rivers on his island, the voyage of the larger-than-life explorer and Bill Davis’s final journey towards death dramatically intersect.
Author Christopher Morgan deftly handles the multiple points of view which bring the pieces of these narratives together and eventually lead us to the secret yearnings of the unconscious man in the bed. Paradoxical and funny by turns, The Island of Four Rivers has a mystery at its heart which can only be solved by each of the characters completing their own journey of self-discovery.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 戴维斯家庭，一个没有什么共同点的家庭因为一场灾难而聚到了一起。比尔 戴维斯——一家之主，在医院里仅靠药物来维持生命。他的家人——命苦的老婆多特，他书呆子儿子亨利还有他疏远的女儿埃莉诺，必须一起决定什么时候用怎样的方式来结束父亲的生命。然而，
比尔 戴维斯却像维多利亚时代的英雄那样穿越南太平洋，并且每天有记录着他的生动的生活。
后来当戴维斯的家人还在讨论是让病床上的戴维斯生还是死的时候，喜欢航海的比尔又产生了一个不可思议的想法——去寻找小岛上四条河的源头。这位把航海看的比生命还重要的人
在他临死前还要进行他的最后次旅行。作者Christopher Morgan使我们从多个角度了解一个躺在病床上捶死挣扎的人。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Christopher Morgan left school to pursue a career in music. He has since worked as a gardener, an artificial-tree maker, a clerk and a baker. After witnessing the demise of his furniture-making business, he decided to write this book. He lives in Melbourne.
Christopher Morgan 离开学校去追求他音乐的梦想。在这期间他做过园艺师，面包师，制作家具的工人，办公室职员。当他的家具生意结束后，他决定开始写作事业。他生活在墨尔本。
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