BLOODLETTING AND MIRACULOUS CURES

Book ID/图书代码： 00200006B01620

English Summary/英文概要： With their scalpel-sharp prose and unflinching gaze, the stories in Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures introduce a powerful new voice in Canadian fiction.

In Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam holds in delicate and skillful tension black humour, investigations of both common and extraordinary moral dilemmas, and a sometimes shockingly realistic and matter-of-fact portrait of today’s medical profession.

He brings to vivid and convincing life the disparate but interdependent worlds of school and home, heartbreaking young love and life-altering fear in stories that introduce us to Fitz, Ming, Chen, and Sri, young medical school students and doctors in Toronto.

In “How To Get Into Medical School,” the impulsive Fitz and the ultra-rational Ming explore the possibilities of a relationship that is tested, first by the vigilance of a disapproving family and then by the extraordinary commitment demanded of medical students. In “Take All of Murphy,” three students face the challenge of their first dissection of a corpse — and the unusual quandary of deciding whether following the anatomy textbook or keeping a tattoo intact is more important. And in “A Long Migration,” perhaps the most lyrical of the stories, we see beyond Chen’s immediate world into the past of his family, and in particular that of his grandfather. Once a high-living and flamboyant member of the Chinese expatriate community in Saigon before the Vietnam War, now Percival Chen is dying in a Brisbane retirement home, and his grandson’s modern medical recommendations must make way for older potions that arrive for Percival from an older world.

Riveting and precise, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures looks with rigorous honesty at the specificities of the lives of doctors and their patients and brings us to a deeper understanding of the challenges and temptations that surge around us all.

Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures is an astonishing literary debut, a collection of mature and intricate stories connected through the relationships that develop among a group of young doctors as they move from the challenges of med school to the intense world of emergency rooms, evac missions, and terrifying new viruses.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当地时间11月7日晚，加拿大小说类最高文学奖——吉勒奖(Giller Prize)在多伦多举行了2006年度颁奖仪式。在多伦多长大的越南华人作家文森特‧拉姆(Vincent Lam)的短篇小说集《放血和不可思议的治愈》最后得到4万加元的奖金，这也是加拿大奖金最高的文学奖。前加拿大总理杜鲁多的儿子杰斯汀‧杜鲁多(Justin　Trudeau)宣布得奖名单并颁奖。
据报道，1994年，加拿大商人杰克‧拉宾诺维奇为纪念过世的妻子桃瑞丝‧吉勒创立了吉勒奖，入围作品必须是用英文写作的小说。每位入围作家均可获得2500加元的奖金，而最终获奖者的奖金为4万加元。今年的吉勒奖提名由加拿大最著名的作家通过一些小型出版社选择了一些不知名的作家作品。今年获奖者32岁的拉姆是一名急诊室医生，也是一位作家，他对于自己的得奖非常吃惊。《放血和不可思议的治愈》写的是一名医学院学生成为一名年轻医生的经历，体验来自拉姆的真实世界。在他结束医院实习的一年之后，才开始动笔写作这本小说。拉姆通常在早晨写作，下午和晚间在多伦多医院的急诊室工作。“作为一名作家，每天写完我都筋疲力尽，而整整一天一个字都写不出来的情况，更令人沮丧了。事实上，来到医院解决人们真实的痛苦让我更有成就感。”早在成为医生之前，拉姆就立志要成为一名作家。“我十四五岁的时候就想写点什幺，却突然意识到无甚可写。所以我想我应该走出去，学些什幺，然后再回到书桌前写作。”拉姆选择了医学，天真地认为这足以给他带来丰富的经历也有足够的时间来写作。《放血和不可思议的治愈》是他的第一本小说集。

Awards/获奖情况：Has won this year’s Giller prize in Canada

’Direct in style, unsparing though compassionate in observation, subtle in emotion, and occasionally gruesome in humour, "Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures" follows four medical students from widely different backgrounds as their stories intertwine, as their illusions shatter, and as the meanings of many lives expand around them. The good news is that doctors are human beings. The bad news is that doctors are human beings. The other good news is that this book marks a stunning debut.’---Margaret Atwood

’Fresh and sparkling!almost every story here has the compulsive what--next charge of true drama beautifully carried by Lam’s clear, understated, confident prose.’---Sunday Times

’There’s no reason why Bloodletting!shouldn’t become as big a hit in this country as it has been in Canada. Simply sit back, relax and enjoy the effortless charm of Lam’s storytelling.’---Scotsman

’Scalpel sharp, as cool and polished as the steel of the mortuary table.’---Financial Times

’Reading about medical problems and what goes on in the emergency ward is just absolutely enthralling to all of us, but in this case it’s much more than that - it’s the characters and the movement and the ease of the storytelling that I just found so irresistible.’---Alice Munro

"Like journalistic dispatches from the medical front lines, with careful psychological characterization added. Lam’s book represents a promising demonstration of fiction’s unique power: to bring the news that stays news, in Ezra Pound’s formulation, and to allow the reader to see through the eyes of those who experience events firsthand."---New York Times Book Review

About the Author/作者介绍： Dr. Vincent Lam was born in London, Ontario, and grew up in Ottawa. His family is from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam. Dr. Lam did his medical training in Toronto, and is an emergency physician who also does international air evacuation work and expedition medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships. His non-fiction has appeared in The Globe and Mail, the National Post, and The University of Toronto Medical Journal. His fiction has been published in Carve. Dr. Lam’s first novel, about a Chinese compulsive gambler and headmaster of an English school in Saigon during the Vietnam War, will be published by Doubleday Canada in 2007. He and his wife live in Toronto.

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