A FLAG FOR SUNRISE
Book ID/图书代码: 03900007B11448
English Summary/英文概要: In a decaying mission on the coast of the corrupt Central American Republic of Tecan ,the residing priest takes refuge in rum and mysticism while his colleague, a young American nun, claws at the edges of quiet despair.
Meanwhile a radar technician with drug problems is about to take up a post as deckhand on a motor boat that is far too powerful and well-equipped to be the shrimper it pretends to be; and Holliwell, and American anthropologist,approaches the delirium of panic as he reluctantly accepts a brief passed to him by sinister CIA contacts from his past.
Nothing in Tecan is as it seems, and as the protagonists nurse their collapsing delusions, they are caught up in aspiral of violence in which the lust for power, the hopes for revolution, and greed all lead inexorably towards the same electrifying end.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 在腐朽的中美洲共和国海岸有一个叫做Tecan的地方,当地的一位神父因其的美国同事,一位年轻的美国修女,绝望地困在了悬崖边,束手无策的他在一种古怪而又神秘的幻象中寻求帮助。
同时一位受毒品困扰的雷达电波技术专家,被派任为摩托船艇的甲板水手,控制船上的方向舵,这艘船拥有一流的装置和巨大的能量,比其看起来还要难以破坏
Holliwell,美国人类学家,游走在恐怖谵妄状态中,中央情报局调查到他曾经被人威胁信奉一种含有凶兆意义的信仰。
任何在Tecan所看到的景象都不是想象中的那么简单的,当主人公们陷入支离破碎的错觉中时,他们就会为了对权利的欲望,对变革的希望,而狂热的追求暴力,所有这些贪婪的欲望无情地使他们拥有一致悲惨的结局。
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Tecan位於腐朽的中美洲共和國海岸,當地的一位神父因一年輕的美國修女絕望地困在懸崖邊,束手無策的他在一種古怪而又神秘的幻象中尋求幫助。
同時一位受毒品困擾的雷達電波技術專家,被派任為摩托船艇的甲板水手,控制船上的方向舵,這艘船擁有一流的裝置和巨大的能量,無法輕易破壞。Holliwell,美國人類學家,處於極度恐懼的狀態中,中央情報局調查到他曾經被迫信奉一種含有凶兆意義的信仰。
任何在Tecan 所看到的景象並非想像中的簡單,當主角們陷入支離破碎的錯覺中時,他們就會狂熱的追求暴力,以滿足其對權力的慾望、變革的希望。然而,所有貪婪的欲望都將無情地帶給他們一致悲慘的結局。
Awards/获奖情况:Destined to be one of the books that will justify our time at the bar of literary history’ New Republic.
Finalist for the National Book Award and The Pulitzer Prize.
About the Author/作者介绍: ROBERT STONE is the author of six previous novels: A Hall of Mirrors, Dog Soldiers winner of the National Book Award), A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, and Damascus Gate. His story collection, Bear and His Daughter, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He won the Faulkner Award for A hall of Mirrors in 1967. He is also the author of Dog Soldiers,which received the National Book Award in 1975;A Flag For Sunrise, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1981.
ROBERT STONE在此之间还攥写过另外六本小说:《A Hall of Mirrors》、《A Flag for Sunrise》、《Children of Light》、《Outerbridge Reach》、《Damascus Gate》。他的故事集本《Bear and His Daughter》,获得了普立兹大奖。他在1967年时凭借本书获得了佛克纳大奖。他另外的几本著作《Dog Soldiers》一书在1975年获得了国内最佳小说奖;《A Flag For Sunrise》一书赢得了洛杉矶时报的最佳小说奖,并在1981年被提名为佛克纳大奖。
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