THE SHORT DAY DYING

Book ID/图书代码： 04560007B13518

English Summary/英文概要： Charles Wenmoth is a young blacksmith and Methodist lay-preacher in the furthest, wildest reaches of south-west England. It is 1870 and preachers such as Wenmoth devote weekdays to work and the Sabbath to walking great distances across country to preach, morning and evening, to ever-dwindling congregations. Wenmoth burns with faith, but it is a faith balanced by an instinctive Gnosticism: a pleasure in nature and the reality of the world around him. His only distraction is a local blind girl, Harriet French, who he is drawn to by the faith she maintains despite her debilitating condition.
Gloriously redemptive, powerful and compassionate, The Short Day Dying is a love story of great power and imaginative richness.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1870年，主人翁Charles Wenmoth是英國的西南邊一個偏遠的小鎮的年輕鐵匠及神職布道者，憑藉著對信仰的堅定，讓他每天在工作之餘，仍不斷的到處傳教及奉獻自己，就如同他將從上天所接受的愛也付出給他人，不過卻在自己重病及初嚐愛情時得到令人心碎的結果，接連不斷的挫敗使他對信仰的堅定也漸漸流失。在這充滿爆發力的小說中，將看到人在「信仰」及「人性」的邊緣中如何產生掙扎及矛盾。（VL）

Awards/获奖情况：Betty Trask Award(貝蒂特拉斯克獎)- Winner 2006
Shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award「惠布瑞特新作獎」, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize「約翰列威林萊斯紀念獎」, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award「國際IMPAC都柏林文學獎」
Peter Hobbs’s debut, The Short Day Dying, is a masterclass in less is more, says Kirsty Gunn(克絲堤‧甘恩)

Rights Sold:USA: Harcourt,French: Christian Bourgois,German: Deutsche Verlag Anstalt,Dutch: Ambo Anthos,Spanish: Random House Mondadori,Turkish: Altin Bilek Yayinlari

"Spiritual rumination and magnificent descriptions of nature drive Hobbs’s inventively written debut, a character study that credibly evokes the colloquial rhythms of its time. Over the course of the year 1870, 27-year-old Charles Wenmoth, an apprentice blacksmith and Methodist lay preacher, thoughtfully records his lonely existence in Cornwall, England. Under the ’drab unblemished skin of cloud,’ the Industrial Revolution has caused local farmers to abandon their land, their faith and their families in search of more lucrative work in the mines or abroad. Charles mourns the loss of these worshippers but finds strength in his faith and its manifestations in the earthly world. He also finds an Edenic calm in his frequent visits to blind, dying Harriet French. Their conversations renew Charles’s belief in himself as a good man, even as he later muses, ’sometimes it seems like I do not love the Sabbath as I should.’ Fans of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead will respond to this novel, which realistically portrays Charles’s struggle to feel worthy, while illuminating the larger desire to derive meaning from human existence." Publishers Weekly
"Bleak, but profoundly beautiful. Hobbs is a writer to watch." Kirkus Reviews
"As in the best fiction, this book examines what it means to be human....With appeal to serious fiction readers as well as fans of historical fiction, Hobbs’s first novel holds promise of great things to come — it’s a real find." Booklist

About the Author/作者介绍： Peter Hobbs grew up in Cornwall and Yorkshire, and lives in London. His debut novel, The Short Day Dying, was published by Faber in 2005. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and won a Betty Trask Prize. It has also been shortlisted for the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. A collection of stories, I Could Ride All Day In My Cool Blue Train, was published by Faber in 2006 and he is currently at work on a second novel, The Book of Imaginary Worlds, for publication in 2008.

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