A DANGEROUS VINE
Book ID/图书代码： 07980006B08783
English Summary/英文概要： Margaret Rose Bennett, like her elder sister, Elizabeth, was named after the two English princesses. But Elizabeth is dead, and Margaret Rose still living, searching and reaching out for life and its meaning. And against the frankly odd, strained and curiously English household she inhabits in a New Zealand city, it is hard to make out the truth. So Margaret abandons what her parents think is right: learning English history, the French language, listening to comedy shows on the World Service and returning home on the 9.30 tram and maps out a course of her own. She studies Maori at University, makes friends with the wayward Emily (daughter of the soon to be Prime Minister of New Zealand) and shy, independent Prudence. As a trio they study hard for their degrees, work by day at the local Government offices and by night sing, drink and laugh with the local Maori people - and fall in love. A new world, an enchanting world, and one with an underbelly of struggle, colour, passion and even violence. Far removed from the closed, ordered life of Margaret Rose’s family, but perhaps not so detached from their own, secret history... Here is an extraordinary, poetic novel of a society trapped in a time of its own, undercut by a people that live and breathe with a vigour that bubbles and burst through the silent surface.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 瑪格麗特是一個叛逆的英國女孩，她離開了那個讓她很壓抑、傳統的英國家庭，孤身一人來到了紐西蘭的一個小城。在這個小鎮裡，她擺脫了父母各種各樣的約束，自由自在的學習英國歷史、法文、搭九點半的火車回住處而不必擔心門禁問題。她開始規劃自己的人生，在大學裏學習毛利語，跟任性的埃米利和獨立內斂的普魯斯做朋友。三個年輕學生，一起努力學習，並且探索人生，白天在當地政府辦公室工作賺錢，晚上則跟當地毛利人唱歌，飲酒，歡笑。這是一個全新的世界，充滿誘惑，但同時又環繞著種族、社會階層、甚至暴力的激烈鬥爭。雖然瑪格麗特遠離了那個封閉、中規中矩的家庭，但是家族歷史依然像幽靈一樣籠罩著她。本書猶如一部描述紐西蘭社會的史詩，也是一個人的史詩。探討凡人原來可以如此有聲有色、精力十足的活著，身體裏的能量和情感不斷積聚，最後就得以打破一向寂靜無波、存在的表面假象。(TT)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Barbara Ewing (born 1944) is a UK-based actress, playwright and novelist. Born in New Zealand, she graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a BA in English and Maori before coming to Britain in 1965 to train as an actress at RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in London. Barbara Ewing lives in London. She won the Bancroft Gold Medal at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She made her film debut in the horror film Torture Garden (1967) for Amicus Productions, followed by Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) with Christopher Lee for Hammer Films. Both movies were directed by Freddie Francis.
The television role for which she is best remembered is that of Bradley Hardacre’s mistress Agnes Fairchild in the Granada Television comedy series Brass, alongside Timothy West (1982-84). In 1986, she played Treen Dudgeon in the short-lived BBC series Comrade Dad, alongside George Cole and Doris Hare.
Her 1989 one-woman show, Alexandra Kollontai, about the only woman in Lenin’s cabinet in 1917 was a great hit in London, and at the Edinburgh and Sydney Festivals.
More recent TV appearances have included episodes of Casualty, Doctors and Holby City on the BBC, and The Bill and Peak Practice on ITV, as well as appearances in various adaptations of Ruth Rendell mysteries.
Ewing has written 7 novels to date:
Strangers (1978)
The Actresses (1997)
A Dangerous Vine (1999)
The Trespass (2002)
Rosetta (2005)
The Mesmerist (2007)
THE FRAUD (2009)
這位擁有英國皇家戲劇學院與紐西蘭威靈頓大學英國文學院雙料傲人學歷的知名女演員，除了戲劇成就卓越，文學著作亦有可觀，她豐富的表演背景，讓她的小說充滿了迷人的魅力，讓讀者猶如坐在劇場或螢光幕、銀幕前，目瞪口呆的欣賞她帶來的故事。
Barbara Ewing是英語世界家喻戶曉的老牌演員，也積極參與舞台劇的演出，年輕時從恐怖片起家的她，還曾經與飾演德古拉而爆紅的克利斯多夫˙李（三劍客、斷頭谷、魔戒、星際大戰等片的演員），合演過吸血鬼經典名片。她近年來積極參與電視劇的演出，持續在BBC有作品播放中。
Barbara Ewing迄今已有六部小說問世，創作質量兼具，也屢獲讀者青睞，登上暢銷書排行榜。明年四月，Barbara Ewing的最新力作THE FRAUD即將問世，相當受到各界期待。
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