AN INSTANCE OF THE FINGERPOST
Book ID/图书代码： 04700005B12547
English Summary/英文概要： A murder in 17th-century Oxford is related from the contradictory points of view of four of the characters, all of them unreliable narrators. The setting of the novel is 1663, just after the restoration of the monarchy following the English Civil War, when the authority of King Charles II is not yet settled, and conspiracies abound. An Instance of the Fingerpost primarily concerns the mysterious murder of an Oxford fellow who was poisoned in his room. A young servant girl, Sarah Blundy, is quickly implicated in the offense. Is she guilty? Everybody certainly thinks so, especially when Sarah refuses to defend herself. A trial is set, and the town buzzes in anticipation of a burning.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 书中的故事发生在17世纪的牛津市，由于四方人物的冲突和不同意见，导致发生了一场轰动全城的谋杀案。故事的背景定在1663年，此时英国已经结束内战，查理二世王位得到复辟，但是政权尚未稳固，阴谋诡计四起。 本书情节由一桩谋杀案件展开。牛津同仁离奇死在自己房间，症状显示他是被谋杀的。此时，人们立即怀疑到年青女仆Sarah Blundy身上。她有罪吗？所有人都这么认为，而Sarah 也从未为自己做出任何辩解。在通过一系列审判之后，全城的人们都期待着Sarah在熊熊烈火中受刑死去……(YM)
Awards/获奖情况：Author of the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Ian has written seven contemporary crime novels set in the Art World. TV rights in The Raphael Affair have sold to Hat Trick. Cape published his The Dream of Scipio. Cape and Spiegal and Grau publish his brilliant Stone’s Fall, a huge tripartite novel set in the sophisticated world of finance in Venice, Paris and London during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in May. (US Spiegal and Grau, UK Cape, Canada Knopf, France Belfond, Spain Seix Barral, Holland Bezige Bij, Italy Longanesi, Russia AST).
About the Author/作者介绍： Iain Pears (born in 1955) is an English art historian, novelist and journalist Before writing, he worked as a reporter for the BBC, Channel 4 (UK) and ZDF (Germany) and correspondent for Reuters from 1982 to 1990 in Italy, France, His well-known novel series features Jonathan Argyll, art historian, though international fame first arrived with his best selling book An Instance of the Fingerpost (1998), which was translated into several languages. Pears currently lives with his wife and children in Oxford.
Iain Pears出生于1955年，他是个英国艺术史学家﹑小说家和记者。在创作之前，作者担任过英国BBC第四频道和德国ZDF的播报员。在1982年到1990年期间，作者曾相继担任驻意大利﹑法国﹑英国和美国路透社通讯记者。他的著名畅销小说系列讲述了艺术史学家Jonathan Argyll的故事。此外，作者的畅销作品An Instance of the Fingerpost蜚声全球，被译成多种语言。Pears目前和妻儿居于牛津。
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