THE MAN WHO FORGOT HOW TO READ
Book ID/图书代码： 06002006B07639
English Summary/英文概要： One morning in 2001, Howard Engel, prolific mystery novelist, walked out his door to pick up his newspaper and found that he could no longer read. The headlines appeared to be in a different language, the articles in code. At the hospital Engel was told that he had had a stroke and now suffered from a condition called alexia—he could still write, he could no longer read. As soon as he committed a word to the page, it appeared to him to be in some kind of alien cipher. Street signs, soup-can labels, billboards, even his own street address were transformed into unintelligible symbols. He contacted famed neurologist Oliver Sacks, who has become transfixed by his unusual case.
Gradually, Engel has regained some of the ability to read, though slowly and with much effort. After much therapy and the support of his family, Engel has returned to writing the Benny Cooperman novels that have made him so widely adored among mystery fans.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如果某一天，你原本習慣的語言，突然都變成了火星文，那會是多麼奇怪、恐慌的事情哪! 尤其作者更是一位以推理懸疑小說聞名的名作家!!!
以偵探懸疑小說著名的加拿大名人霍華 安格的真實故事
2001年早晨，懸疑小說家霍華 安格走到門外去揀報紙，突然發現自己無法如往常一樣閱讀了。報紙的標題好象是用其他國家的語言寫的，文章都好象亂碼了。在醫院，醫生告訴他的大腦因受到劇烈撞擊，得了失讀症——即是他仍舊可以寫作，但不再具備閱讀的能力。他在紙上寫下的每一個字，對他來說都好象某種記憶密碼。街道名稱、湯罐頭標籤，看板，甚至是他自己家的住址都被轉化成一種難以理解的暗號。他聯繫了著名的神經科醫師Oliver Sacks，於是他這個不同尋常的病歷就由Oliver接手了。
漸漸地，安格通過長時間的努力又重新獲得了一些閱讀的能力。在家庭的支持下，和大量的治療過程後，安格再次執筆寫班尼．古柏曼系列小說，這本小說幫他贏得了大量粉絲的敬愛。(SK)
Awards/获奖情况：“Howard Engel brings to his memoir, The Man Who Forgot How to Read, all the skills he has learned as a crime writer working on the Benny Cooperman books. It is witty, insightful, moving without being sentimental, and it keeps you turning the pages. I urge you to read it.” ---Peter Robinson
“In The Man Who Forgot How to Read, Engel tells his story from the inside, with extraordinary insight, humor, and intelligence. It is a story that is not only as fascinating as one of his own detective novels, but a testament to the resilience and creative adaptation of one man and his brain.” ---Oliver Sacks
About the Author/作者介绍： 一九三一年，霍華 安格出生於尼加拉瀑布附近的聖凱薩林大道，父親經營一家女性服飾店。他原先在索特．聖瑪利亞學校教書，但是沒多久就轉到加拿大廣播公司去擔任撰稿員和記者。一九六○年那一年，他跑遍歐洲許多地方去做採訪，其中包括巴黎、倫敦、西班牙，以及賽浦路斯等地。一九六七年，他升格成為《周日特報》、《藝術評論》、《名詩選集》等節目的執行製作，同時還參與了幾支紀錄片專題報導的策劃。
除了廣播專業人員的身分之外，霍華 安格在加拿大可是重量級的推理名人。他是加拿大推理作家協會的發起人，一九八六至八七年擔任該會主席。一九九四年，他獲得布洛克大學的法律榮譽博士學位。一年之後，多倫多大學的加拿大文化協會頒給他「傑出視察員」的榮譽頭銜。到了一九九七年，教職員聯誼會邀他入會，使得他的社交身影更為活躍。儘管霍華 安格擁有多份職位和頭銜，但他最為人所知的身分卻是推理作家，而他筆下的班尼．古柏曼（Benny Cooperman）探案更是讓讀者津津樂道。這套系列小說的主角是一位住在安大略省的猶太籍私家偵探，其中有幾部小說曾被拍成電視影集。
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