THE SOUND OF BUTTERFLIES

Book ID/图书代码： 12100006B01184

English Summary/英文概要： In 1904, the young lepidopterist Thomas Edgar arrives home from a collecting expedition in the Amazon. His young wife Sophie is unprepared for his emaciated state and, even worse, his inability or unwillingness to speak.
Sophie’s genteel and demure life in Edwardian England contrasts starkly with the decadence of Brazil’s rubber boom as we are taken back to Thomas’s arrival in the Amazon and his search for a mythical butterfly. Up the river, via the opulent city of Manaus where the inhabitants feed their horses champagne and aspire to all things Europen Thomas’s extraordinary, and increasingly obsessed, journey arrie him through the exotic and the erotic to some terrible truths.
Back home, unable to break through Thomas’s silence, Sophie is forced to take more and more drastic measures to discover what has happened. But as she scavenges what she can from Thomas’s diaries and boxes of exquisite butterflies, she learns as much about herself as about her husband.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1904年一位年輕的昆蟲學家Thomas Edgar從一次亞馬遜探險回家後，他的太太Sophie發現他完全變了一個人，感覺像生病一樣，不僅是生理上連精神也變得憔悴不堪。而Sophi原本是一位像生活在英國貴族的公主，所有的生活習慣和巴西的熱帶雨林根本無法做任何聯想，不過這次因丈夫離奇的事故，讓她決定深入亞馬遜流域的城市瑪瑙斯(Manaus)探究事後的原因，不料他卻重Thomas的日記及其帶回的蝴蝶中在發現更多可能危機婚姻的真相，她是否能拯救及挽回她的丈夫呢？還是這婚姻其實不值得她再做任何努力？

Awards/获奖情况：版權已售: New Zealand - Random House/US - William Morrow/UK- Picador/Germany - Pendo and Luebbe/Holland - Artemis/Italy - Piemme/Russia - Eksmo/Greece - Melani

About the Author/作者介绍： 瑞秋‧金 1970年生於紐西蘭的書香世家，父親為紐西蘭當地著名的作家，母親則為出版家。2001年時在威靈頓大學的維多利亞學院完成其創意寫作的碩士學位，並在同年開始首部作品的創作開端。此書靈感則很單純來自客廳玻璃牆邊的一些蝴蝶，讓她想出版一本有漂亮封面及關於這幾年在創作上所做研究，此書在2006年紐西蘭一推出便造成廣大的迴響，佔據暢銷排行榜長達12週之久。目前她和演員丈夫及兒子居住在威靈頓。

Rachel King is in her early 30s and lives in New Zealand. She recently won the Lillian Ida Smith award for an emerging writer, administered by the New Zealand Society of Authors, for her first novel The Sound of Butterflies.

Format:电子手稿

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