THE NIGHT WATCH

Book ID/图书代码： 05380005B11812

English Summary/英文概要： Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching ...Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbours a painful secret ...Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover ...Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances ...Tender, tragic and beautifully poignant, set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic and ordinary, here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises and twists. The Night Watch is thrilling. A towering achievement.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： The Night Watch关于四个伦敦人的故事——3个女人和一个年轻的男人之间真实的亲密关系的故事。Kay是一个战争时期的救护车的驾驶员，喜欢穿着男装衣服在街上到处闲逛…Helen一个聪明的，充满热情的，又藏有秘密的女孩。Viv是一个有魅力的女孩但她很疯狂的迷恋着她的士兵男友..Duncan表面上很单纯的男孩，但是在战争中却有着他自己残忍的战斗方式。他们之间有着某种秘密的联系...

Awards/获奖情况：on ORANGE PRIZE SHORTLIST 2006 shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006

’Sarah Waters is one of the best storytellers alive today’ --- Matt Thorne, Independent on Sunday

’Sarah Waters’s latest offering lingers on, long after the final page and its first, most fateful meeting’---Melanie McGrath, Evening Standard

’A stunning achievement. Waters’s meticulous research drops the reader, emotionally and physically, into the maelstrom of the London Blitz’ ---John Harding, Daily Mail

About the Author/作者介绍： Sarah Waters is the author of Tipping the Velvet, a New York Times Notable Book, Affinity, for which she won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award, and Fingersmith, which was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and for the Man Booker Prize in 2002. In 2003, she was named one of Granta’s best British writers under 40.

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