SEASON OF THE WITCH: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 03540006B08805

English Summary/英文概要： Gabriel Blackstone is a cool, hip, thoroughly 21st Century Londoner with an unusual talent. A computer hacker by trade, he is - by inclination - a remote viewer; someone whose unique gifts enable him to enter the thoughts of others. But this is something he only does with the greatest reluctance - until he is contacted by an ex-lover who begs him to use his gift to find her step-son, last seen months earlier in the company of two sisters. And so Gabriel visits Monk House in Chelsea, a place where time seems to stand still. Its living room is filled with the perfume of roses, African masks line the walls and everywhere - on doors, on walls, on ceilings even - the mysterious coded symbol of cross and circle dominates. As the dog days of summer turn into a cold and hostile winter, Gabriel becomes increasingly bewitched by the house, and by its owners, the beautiful, enigmatic Monk sisters - one of whom is a deadly killer, and who will stop at nothing to protect a terrifying secret that is as old as time itself. "Season of the Witch" is an extraordinary Gothic thriller that takes on big themes - love, death, alchemy, the power of the human mind to transform and transcend reality - and wraps them into a thriller narrative that will beguile and entrance all who turn its pages.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 加比埃•布莱斯通是一个既酷，又时尚的典型21世纪伦敦人，并拥有一种不同寻常的天赋。仅就职业而言，他是一名电脑骇客，就倾向而言，他则是一名远程读心者，独一无二的天赋使得他可以进入别人的思想中去，但拥有这种能力却并非他所愿。直到他的前女友找到他，请求他用这种能力帮她找回继子-----最后见到他的是公司里的两姐妹。于是加比埃前往切尔西的蒙克家拜访，那是一个时间似乎凝固的地方，起居室充溢着玫瑰香味，非洲假面到处都是，布满了墙壁，门，甚至于天花板，交织成一个神秘的密码符号。尽管天气开始向冬天迈进，加比埃也渐渐被这个房间，还有它的主人，美丽而又神秘的蒙克姐妹所蛊惑，-----她们中的一个就是那个致命杀手，会不顾一切的保守那个有如时间一样冷酷的天大秘密。本书是一部独特的，哥特式悬疑小说，爱情，死亡，炼金术，扭转乾坤的念力----这些，将使每一个翻开书页的人情不自禁的读到最后……(zh)

Awards/获奖情况： the World Book Day Spread the Word winner 09-3-9 Lily
*Season of the Witch (Bantam), by South African-born journalist Natasha Mostert, is the World Book Day Spread the Word winner. A psychological thriller-cum-gothic novel, it won 25% of the public vote on "an alternative reading agenda", and the author was presented with a ￡5,000 cheque at the World Book Day party at Waterstone’s Piccadilly. She chose to donate the money to CPAU - Fighting for Peace, an organisation that teaches Afghan women to box. Photo: Natasha Mostert (centre) with her editor, Selina Walker of Transworld, and Neil Jewsbury, Chair of World Book Day and Commercial Director of Waterstone’s. Mostert paid tribute to her editor, Selina Walker, and said of the book: "The premise is that 21st-century man is losing his ability to remember because of all the technological tools at his disposal. We can hardly remember our own mobile phone numbers. In contrast, our ancestors had muscular memories: Simplicius was able to recite Virgil backwards. Seneca the Elder, who was born in 54 BC, was able to listen to a list of two thousand names and then repeat them in exact order." The book-to-talk-about poll was carried out to bring to light hidden gems amongst the thousands of books published, and to provide an alternative reading agenda to that dictated by critics and prize juries. Since the campaign was launched on the World Book Day website in November, more than 8,000 book-lovers have voted online on the "talkability" merits of a list of 50 titles, selected by an expert panel of judges. The public’s shortlist of 10 was revealed at the end of January. Mostert’s was voted "the perfect nightmare".
本书作者为南非籍的记者娜塔莎•蒙斯特，世界书香日传播世界奖得主，一部心理惊悚的哥特式小说，在“二选一阅读议题”中赢得25%的公众票选。作者还捐出5000美金的支票给CPAU，一个阿富汗女子教育组织。
蒙斯特赞扬她的编辑赛琳娜•沃克，说：“前提是，一个21世纪的人失去记忆的能力，是因为掌握了太多的科技工具，我们甚至于记不住自己的手机号码。与此相反，我们的祖先有超强的记忆，辛普利丘可以倒背维吉尔的诗集，赛内卡族的长者，生于公元前54年，可以听完长达2000个的名单后一字不差的背下来。”
被网友评选为“最完美的梦魇”

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