THE NATURE OF MONSTERS
Book ID/图书代码： 00200007B13160
English Summary/英文概要： It is 1718 and, in a small parish near Newcastle, Eliza Tally, a headstrong girl of sixteen, embarks on a reckless love affair that will prove her undoing. When her lover casts her off, denying their union, she is forced to travel to London, a city that attracts and alarms her in equal measure. There, she takes up a position in the house of an apothecary, Grayson Black, whom she trusts to salvage what remains of her reputation. From the highly acclaimed author of "The Great Stink" comes a gloriously written tale of consuming passions and obsessions. Set against the clamour and roar of eighteenth-century London, "The Nature of Monsters" brings vividly to life a world where the line separating science and madness is dangerously blurred, and where a single life counts for little in the relentless pursuit of progress.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1666年，倫敦市的一場大火吞沒了大街小巷，一位待產婦人倉皇逃離。
有人說，被這樣的場景嚇到的孕婦會生出一個怪物。
後來這個婦人產下一子，臉上有一塊紅色的胎記。
1718年，16歲的艾麗薩來到倫敦，看到這座重建的城市裡矗立著的聖保羅大教堂。她給藥劑師做助手，只有在這裡她才能安全保護這個沒有父親的孩子，也能保證孩子的父親免受醜聞的傷害。但藥劑師原本就有女傭了，為什麼那麼歡迎艾麗薩來做女傭呢？他平時都帶著面紗，又為什麼能讓艾麗薩看到他的臉？為什麼能讓她進入他的實驗室？她為什麼總是夢到兇殘的狗？她拜訪一個給藥劑師提供藥劑書的書商朋友時，才解開這些謎團，原來這個藥劑師要用她做實驗，要弄明白孕婦的情感變化對嬰兒有什麼影響……，此時，另一個女傭瑪麗也懷孕了，她們要採取行動不僅要拯救孩子，而且要拯救自己。（Celia）
Awards/获奖情况：與《The Great Stink》不同，這本小說中並沒有探案元素，但克雷爾保留了小說中移情的風格，從弱勢的受難者角度描寫，讓人想起狄更斯。
——《出版人週刊》
克雷爾是歷史學家出身。一般這樣的小說家會犯兩個錯誤，一是她的故事會受到史實的束縛，或者人物會被描寫得過於老氣。這兩個錯誤克雷爾都避免了，她在史實背景下，充分發揮了歷史學家精妙的想像力。
——英國《衛報》
About the Author/作者介绍： 克拉爾•克拉克出生於1967年，畢業於劍橋三一學院歷史系。現著書四本：《The Great Stink》, 《The Nature of Monsters》,《Savage Lands》和《Beautiful Lies》。其中《The Great Stink》和《Savage Lands》入圍橘子獎。《The Great Stink》贏得彭德爾頓•梅的新書獎和美國優質平裝書俱樂部新人獎。她的小說已被翻成5種文字。
Clare Clark is the author of four novels: The Great Stink, The Nature of Monsters, Savage Lands and the forthcoming Beautiful Lies. Both The Great Stink and Savage Lands were longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction; The Great Stink won the Pendleton May First Novel Award and, in the USA, the Quality Paperback Book Club New Voices Award. Her novels have been translated into five languages. A graduate in History from Trinity College, Cambridge, where she won a Double First.
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