THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS

Book ID/图书代码： 01200006B07938

English Summary/英文概要： Sandor Kovacs left Budapest after the uprising in 1956, arriving in London penniless and alone. Alone, that is, except for his brother Ervin and his wife, who had fled to England in the late thirties and established themselves as best they could. But Ervin and Sandor never got along, and very soon Sandor spurns his brother’s offers of help and goes his own way.
Many years later, Ervin’s daughter Vivien decides she wants to find out about this uncle she has never known. In the sixties he became notorious, a slum landlord accused of exploiting immigrant tenants, a spiv who consorted with criminals and prostitutes. Who is this man whom her father will not even speak of, let alone speak to? Vivien’s curiosity leads to an encounter with Sandor, who is a shadow of his former self, a man who has spent many years in jail and who now has the time and the inclination to look back on his life and his misdeeds. Vivien hides her real identity (or so she thinks), and agrees to become Sandor’s amenuensis, transcribing the story of his life. But in doing so she risks the wrath of her father, and indeed her entire family.
THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS is a powerful novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of WHEN I LIVED IN MODERN TIMES. It is also an anatomizing of the immigrant experience, and as such is deeply resonant with the concerns of our own society today.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 橘子奖得主，曾入围2008年度曼布克奖提名单元的，Linda Grant一位充满着魅力的女性角色，她虽然承受着巨大的痛苦，但却在疏离的叔叔那里所透露的家族秘密中获得慰藉。在这段生动而又温婉的诗意中，作者巧妙地构建了一个关于家庭，爱情和怀念过往，活在当下的故事。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：2008 Orange Prize longlist.
版權已售: UK: Little Brown; Romanian: Leda; Spanish: Urano
Mail on Sunday--’This is a terrific novel, bursting with life and vivid characters’
Independent--’Her novel is at once a beautifully detailed character study, a poignant family history and a richly evocative portrait of the late 1970s’
Irish Examiner--Underlying all the stories in this compelling novel is the search for identity.
The Literary Review--Grant probes beyond the appearance of people to get to the truth about them [in this] richly textured, humane novel.
The Time--’Her heroine, Vivien Kovaks, slightly resembles a rawer, angrier version of one of Anita Brookner’s dutiful daughters . . . such is the richness of Grant’s plotting that the story encapsulates many untold narratives’
Observer--’So artfully constructed that you barely feel you’re reading at all, so fluid and addictive is the plot. But like all the best boks, the serious ideas it raises stay with you for a long time afterwards . . . A wonderful, tightly written novel that is above all a masterclass in the perils of hypocrisy’

About the Author/作者介绍： 琳达•格兰特1951年2月15日出生在英国的利物浦，现定居于伦敦。曾发表过颇受好评的非小说和小说：《铸铁海岸》曾获得大卫海姆第一个小说奖；《当我活在摩登时代》一书曾获得橘子小说奖；《在此等候》曾入围曼布克奖；《他们后面的衣着》获得南方银行文学奖，并同时入围曼布克奖。她还发表过《千禧性事》；《提醒我，我是谁》；《街上的人》，《穿出来的思想家》其中曾一些作品曾获得Lettre Ulysses文学奖。

Linda Grant was born in Liverpool in 1951 and lives in London. She has written for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, most recently as a regular contributor to The Guardian. She is the author of three novels, THE CAST IRON SHORE, which won the David Higham Prize and was short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1996, WHEN I LIVED IN MODERN TIMES, which won the Orange Prize in 2000, and STILL HERE. Her first book, SEXING THE MILLENNIUM, was a political history of the sexual revolution. Her memoir REMIND ME WHO I AM, AGAIN was published to great acclaim in 1998. THE PEOPLE ON THE STREET, published in the spring of 2006, describes her experiences of Israel and the occupied territories. Linda Grant has recently delivered her new novel, THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS.英國大衛海姆文學獎得主

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