WIND AND FIRE
Book ID/图书代码： 12691006B03290
English Summary/英文概要： WIND AND FIRE is the dramatic story of a fiery young Russian girl, Lydia Ivanova, and her desperate struggle to survive in the tumultuous war-torn China of 1928.
Lydia and her beautiful but feckless mother are exiles from the Russian Revolution, penniless outsiders in the unforgiving society of the colonial International Settlement. Lydia saves them from complete destitution by resorting to thieving. In doing so, she has to risk everything by trading with the criminal fraternity in the Chinese old town, dominated by its savage triads and tongs.
It is in the old Chinese town that she meets and falls in love with Chang An Lo, an idealistic Chinese Communist who fights with single-minded courage for everything he believes in. He and Lydia are on the opposite sides of a great political and social divide. Their love for each other is an unforgivable and shameful act in the eyes of both the Europeans and the Chinese communities, yet they will not give each other up. But behind the polite scenes of sterile respectability in the International Settlement, evil stalks as ruthlessly as in the secretive heart of the triads.
Chang saves Lydia’s life, and when he is wounded she shelters him in secret. But she is made to pay for this by the Black Snake tong. She becomes their hunted prey.
Lydia is appalled when her mother marries a respectable English journalist to escape from poverty. Now she is finally forced to make choices. Between the fugitive Communist she loves and the successful life she once dreamed of.
Opium, triads, kidnap, death and torture emerge within the claustrophobic colonial world of Junchow. But this exciting, atmospheric and deeply moving story is essentially about a young girl’s moral awakening and her battle to be with the man she loves.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： WIND AND FIRE是讲关于一个年轻的俄罗斯女孩Lydia Ivanova在1928年中国战争时代努力生存的故事。
Lydia和她漂亮但却软弱的母亲因为俄罗斯的革命而背井离乡来到中国，Lydia为了可以生活下去她只能靠偷盗为生，在古老的中国小镇里她随时都有被抓的危险。
这时她遇到了Chang An Lo——一个理想主义的中国共产党员只为他的信念而奋斗，并且坠入了爱河。但他们两个是处在一个完全不同的政权和社会里，他们的爱情在中国共产党和欧洲人的眼里是可耻的，不可原谅的。他们只能把爱放在心里。
Chang为了救Lydia的命而受伤时，她把他藏了起来，但是她的行为也付出了代价，她成为他们的奴隶。后来Lydia的妈妈为了摆脱贫困与一个英国的记者结婚了，这时她面临了一个两难的选择是跟着她的爱人还是去过她曾经梦想的生活。
书中写出了殖民统治的残酷现实，但是在这个震撼的故事中我们看到了一个年轻女孩怎样唤醒自己的道德和为和自己心爱人一起而付出的努力。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Kate Furnivall拥有英国和俄罗斯的血统。在伦敦大学毕业后，她就在出版社工作，之后就在一家广告公司做电视节目制作人。她的母亲是一个俄罗斯人的女儿也是在中国流浪，这也是她写WIND AND FIRE的灵感。
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