RANDOM ACTS OF HEROIC LOVE
Book ID/图书代码： 04300007B11632
English Summary/英文概要：
Chinese Summary/中文概要： **英國版賣量 三十萬本!!!***
***2007年最好看的一本小說,作者運用鏡頭般的手法描繪了兩個男人因愛而存活下來的故事
1992年，一對男女朋友於南美發生意外，事件男主角Leo Deakin在醫院醒來時，獲知女友Eleni於這場意外中身亡。對於意外發生，Leo相當自責；或許是因為Leo潛意識中的排斥，他對當時的記憶印象模糊，他不知道那時他在哪裡，也弄不清楚Eleni的死亡是怎麼發生的。陷入人生低潮的Leo，在最痛苦絕望之際，赫然發現了一個秘密，徹底地改變他的人生…
1917年，一次大戰爆發，Moritz Daniecki必須徵召入伍而與戀人分開。他不幸成為俄羅斯的戰俘，被抓到西伯利亞的集中營裡。為了家鄉裡苦守著他的愛侶，他咬緊牙根，靠著毅力存活下來。好不容易，他從集中營中逃離出來，帶著當時訴說著對愛人的思念卻又寄不出去的情書，穿越七千公里的俄羅斯大草原，一心一意的要回到家鄉，尋找他的摯愛。而他心愛的人仍在家鄉裡等著他嗎？
這是Danny Scheinmann的第一本書，他豐富的劇本創作經驗，戲劇性的刻畫出為愛而存活的兩段人生，宛如電影般的情節，真實的情感表達，是部相當動人的小說。
Awards/获奖情况：* updated: 2009-02-06
Translation rights sold: Brazilian Portuguese (Record), Chinese complex (Ten Point Publishing), Chinese simplified (Inner Mongolian People’s Publishing), Czech (BB Art), Dutch (Nieuw Amsterdam), French (Editions First), German (Pendo), Hebrew (Keter), Italian (Corbaccio), Korean (Millionhouse Publishing), Lithuanian (Svajoniu), Norwegian (Cappelen Damm), Polish (PHU Sonia Draga), Romanian (Leda), Russian (Phantom Press), Serbian (Beobook), Spanish (Almuzara), Turkish (Turkuvaz), Vietnamese (Youbooks), UK (Transworld), US (St Martins Press);
Transworld have sold approximately 300,000 copies of their edition;
* updated 2009-02-06 (Mathilde)
Two excellent new reviews from the US:
“An engrossing novel about love, loss, and the power of storytelling, Random Acts of Heroic Love will grab you from the start and hold you until the end, while breaking your heart along the way.”
- David Ebershoff (author of The 19th Wife)
“Young Leo Deakin wakes in a hospital in Ecuador in 1992 to discover that his girlfriend, Eleni, has died in a bus crash. Overwhelmed with guilt and grief, Leo returns to life seeking the meaning behind his new predicament: left behind, haunted by his dead lover and ambivalent over whether he should shake her hold on him. In an effort to break through his son’s grief, Leo’s dad imparts the tale of Leo’s grandfather Moritz Daniecki, who as a WWI POW escaped across the Siberian wasteland to make it back to the woman he loved. The parallel powers of love and grief form the meeting points of these mirror sagas, which Scheinmann combines to remarkable effect. Leo and Moritz are tender, deeply feeling, put-upon characters who never descend into mawkishness; indeed, readers will feel most for Leo when he’s at his worst. Dotted with strange scientific trivia, this beautiful debut novel provides deft moments of poignancy and surprise.”
- Publishers Weekly
“… a thoughtful and thought-provoking story… Scheinmann writes with a confidence and clarity unusual in a first-time author. His story is carefully structured, nicely paced and well-imagined. The reader is fully with Leo in the irrationality of grief, and with Moritz in the bitter Siberian cold. Both share stories of amazing survival, moving forward when any movement at all seems next to impossible. And the ultimate, unifying impetus is love, emerging in heroic proportion.”
- Denver Post
An interview on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozV_dSAB13I
Publishers of RANDOM ACTS OF HEROIC LOVE: UK (Transworld), US (Thomas Dunne Books), Brazil (Record), China (Inner Mongolia People’s Publishing House), Czech (BB/Art), France (Editions First), Germany (Pendo), Indonesia (Mizan), Israel (Keter), Italy (Corbaccio), Korea (Millionhouse Publishing), Lithuania (Svajoniu), The Netherlands (Nieuw Amsterdam), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Poland (PHU Sonia Draga), Portugal (Porto), Romania (Leda), Russia (Phantom Press), Serbia (Beobook), Spain (Almuzara), Taiwan (Ten Points), Turkey (Alfa/Artemis), Vietnam (YouBooks).
About the Author/作者介绍： Danny Scheinmann 作家、演員、說書人，曾於英國皇家劇院以及超過35個國家演出過。他的巡迴演出包括：西伯利亞的說書演出；以及在一個小劇場工作，前往哥倫比亞、菲律賓、柬埔寨、越南，與當地孩童一同構思戲劇演出。同時，他也在獨立製片公司 The West Wittering Affair參與編劇與演出。出生於曼徹斯特，目前與妻兒居住於倫敦，這是他第一部作品。
Danny Scheinmann is a writer, actor and storyteller. He has performed at the Royal National Theatre and in over thirty countries. His tours include storytelling in Siberia and a year and a half working for an avant-garde theatre group creating shows with street children in Colombia, the Philippines, Cambodia and Vietnam. He was born and brought up in Manchester and now lives in London with his wife and three children. This is his first book. Visit his website www.dannyscheinmann.com
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