THE AMNESIA CLINIC

Book ID/图书代码： 00200005B11668

English Summary/英文概要： The Amnesia Clinic is an extraordinary, powerful novel set in Quito, Ecuador. Anti, a quiet English boy, strikes up a friendship with flamboyant local classmate Fabián. Fabián is everything Anti isn’t: handsome, athletic and popular. What’s more, he lives with his cool, eccentric Uncle Suarez, while Anti is stuck in the dull ex-pat world inhabited by his parents.
Suarez, a storyteller par excellence, infects the boys with his passion for outlandish tales, and before long, the relationship between them becomes one conducted entirely through the medium of storytelling.
One subject is taboo: Fabián’s parents. But when details surrounding their disappearance begin to emerge, Anti decides to console his friend with a story suggesting that Fabián’s mother may be living at a bizarre hospital on the coast for patients with memory loss.
With confused emotions and reality losing its tenuous grip, the boys embark on a quixotic voyage across Ecuador in search of an ‘Amnesia Clinic’ that may, or may not exist…

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 這是講述兩個男孩的友誼，故事發生在厄瓜多爾的基多，一個英國小男孩名叫安堤(Anti)，另一個是當地的孩子叫飛比恩(Fabian)，安堤安靜，愛幻想，無法適應新環境。飛比恩則是當地帥氣活潑的男孩。
飛比恩受伯父的影響，講了一口好故事，他也講了很多故事給安堤聽。飛比恩的父母很早就失蹤了，生死未明。後來安堤也想講一個好聽的故事回報飛比恩，他告訴飛比恩說，你的母親非常有可能還活在世界上，在某個特別海域的醫院裡，只是她暫時失去記憶而無法回家，一般人不得其門而入，無法找到那個地方。
所以，他們開始了一場唐吉珂德式的探險尋親，但結局，竟是讓人不忍與傷心…。

Awards/获奖情况：◎2007毛姆獎得主 (Somerset Maugham Award)
◎柯斯達文學獎(Costa Book Awards)(前稱Whitbread Book Awards)決選名單
◎不列顛國協作家獎(Commonwealth Writers’ Prize) 決選名單
◎Glen Dimplex Award決選名單
◎狄蘭•托馬斯獎(Dylan Thomas Prize)決選名單

About the Author/作者介绍： 作者James Scudamore今年31歲，他小時候曾住過日本，巴西，厄瓜多爾，以優質一級語言能力畢業於牛津大學後，活躍於廣告界。
James Scudamore was born in 1976. After a peripatetic childhood spent variously in Japan, Brazil and Ecuador (and the UK some of the time), he graduated from Oxford University with a First Class degree in Modern Languages. Subsequently, he worked in advertising for four years, and was involved in such high-profile projects as Richard Branson’s bid to run the National Lottery, the development of a Bart Simpson cereal called Eat My Shorts, and the redesign of Snap’s, Crackle’s and Pop’s hats. Following an appearance on BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours to discuss the re-branding of the Girl Guides Association, he felt that he had risen as high as he ever would in the advertising profession, and left the industry to pursue a career as a writer. Since completing an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, he has been writing for as much of the time as his wallet permits. The Amnesia Clinic is his first novel.

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