THIS TIME OF DYING
Book ID/图书代码: 00200006B10095
English Summary/英文概要: It is October 1918 and London is gathering in its dead. For
Henry Speake of Speake & Son Undertakers laying to rest the shattered young
bodies of those sent home from the Front to die has become a grimly
familiar reality. But what he is seeing now, as influenza claims its
victims with increasing speed and force, is something different: for the
first time in his life, Henry feels overwhelmed by death. Unable to share
his fears with his waspish, disapproving sisters, Henry turns to Mrs Allen
Thompson, a recently widowed school teacher, so beginning a friendship
which gradually, stumblingly, pulls them in a direction neither has been
prepared for.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 1918年至1919年間,一場 “西班牙流感”的大災難席捲全世界,估計死亡人數在二千萬至四千萬之間,超過在第一次世界大戰中死亡的人數將近四倍。此故事以此歷史為背景,發生一件令人深思的故事,許多人讀後都流下眼淚。
1918年的十月,倫敦被死亡的陰影籠罩。亨利正在被一種流感折磨著,而流感傳染非常快速,而他可以感覺自己正在慢慢死去。他無法把自己垂死的恐懼告訴給他那些冷漠刻薄的姐姐。他轉而在一位寡居的學校老師湯姆生太太身上得到慰藉,他們之間的友誼不斷昇華,患難與共,即使他們對局勢感到不知所措。
Thomas Wey 博士在前往郵寄信件的途中突然死,而信的內容是告訴健康疾病管制局,這場大瘟疫即將來到,要如何做好準備工作,亨利當時拿到了信,並他沒有轉交,自己留下來。隨著瘟疫的擴大,無數的人一一死去,他也陷入了深深的自責中。這是一部描敘人性深層恐懼的上乘之作。
Awards/获奖情况:麥凱特瑞獎是英國獎項,專門頒給四十歲以上的優良創作的新人。
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