MOTHER’S MILK

Book ID/图书代码： 00200005B11611

English Summary/英文概要： To Patrick, a hilariously churlish husband who has been sexually abandoned by his wife in favour of his sons; to Mary, who’s consumed by her children and an overwhelming desire not to repeat the mistakes of her own mother. St. Aubyn examines the web of false promises that entangle this once-illustrious family whose last vestige of wealth - an old house in the south of France - is about to be donated by Patrick’s mother. An up-to-the-minute dissection of the mores of child-rearing, marriage, adultery, and assisted suicide, Edward St. Aubyn’s masterful ability to combine the most excruciating emotional pain with the driest comedy.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Melrose家庭正处于为难之中。Edward St Aubyn优美、富有机智的激烈言辞将父母与子女，丈夫与妻子之间的琐事描写得维妙维悄。 Patrick是个粗鄙，无忧无虑的男人，他的妻子因专心照顾几个儿子而忽略了与他的性生活；Mary为照看孩子们的事耗尽了体力，并强烈希望自己不再重蹈覆辙她母亲的过去。作者St. Aubyn在书中揭开了Melrose家族虚假承诺的阴谋诡计，关于这个曾享有盛名的家族所残留下最后的财产——法国南部的一幢老房子——而Patrick的母亲将这座房子捐献了出去。这本合乎潮流的书籍将抚养孩子、婚姻、通奸、辅助自杀陈述得淋漓尽致。Edward St. Aubyn天才般的写作能力将极其难受的感情痛苦与不形与色的喜剧感相结合。

Awards/获奖情况：Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mother’s Milk is the fourth Patrick Melrose novel from Edward St Aubyn.

shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006
此书2006年被提名英国布克奖（布克奖Man Booker Prize代表了当今小说的最高水平，该奖项每年评审一次，获奖作品必须是前一年中出版的文学作品。自1969年设立至今，它成为小说作家追逐的最高目标并且是全世界最高级别的小说类奖项。）

review/news piece in the Evening Standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/prize-fighter-edward-st-aubyn-takes-revenge-on-the-literary-world-with-new-satire-9286694.html

profile in the Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/the-disillusionist/359809/

news piece in the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/28/edward-st-aubyn-literary-revenge

review in the Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/lost-for-words-by-edward-st-aubyn-book-review-this-novel-about-the-man-booker-prize-is-close-to-the-bone-9314102.html

review in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9195031/biting-back

review in the Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/05adda58-ceca-11e3-8e62-00144feabdc0.html#axzz30aI2tq1I

profile in the Telegraph Magazine: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/10800965/How-writing-helped-Edward-St-Aubyn-exorcise-his-demons.html

review/news piece in the Sunday Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookprizes/10805576/A-spurned-writers-taboo-busting-riposte.html

Teddy did a very good interview on Friday on Radio 4 Front Row (about 15 mins in): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b041yr90

About the Author/作者介绍： Edward St. Aubyn was born in London in 1960. He is the author of the novels A Clue to the Exit and On the Edge, which was short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998.
Edward St. Aubyn一九六零年出生于伦敦。他还著有《A Clue to the Exit and On the Edge》一书，此书在一九九八年被提名《卫报小说奖》。

Format:TRADE PAPERBACK

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：SOLD

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：The sales so far for all 5 novels in the Melrose series are as follows: UK: Picador; US: Picador; Brazil: Companhia das Letras; Denmark: Gads; France: Bourgois; Germany: Piper; Holland: Prometheus; Hungary: Libri; Italy: Neri Pozza; Norway: Gyldendal; Poland: Foksal; Spain: Anagrama; Sweden: Bonniers; Turkey: Can Yayinlari

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