THE TIME WE HAVE TAKEN
Book ID/图书代码： 12100007B13763
English Summary/英文概要： The straight line of history has led, and was always leading, to this day and they have all been lucky enough to be alive, right now, to greet the moment. One suburban morning in summer 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of the television and wireless shop, realises that his suburb is 100 years old. He contacts the mayor, who assembles a committee, and celebrations are eagerly planned. That same morning, just a few streets way, Rita is awakened by a dream of her husband’s snores. It is years since Vic moved north, and left their house of empty silences, yet his life remains bound up with hers. Their son, too, has moved on - Michael is at university, exploring new ideas and the heady world of grown-up love. Yet Rita still stubbornly stays in the old street, unable to imagine leaving the house she has tended so lovingly for so long. Instead she has taken on the care of another house as well - that of the widowed Mrs Webster, owner of the suburb’s landmark factory, now in decline. As these lives entwine, and the committee commissions its centenary mural and prepares to commemorate progress, history - in the shape of the new, post-war generation represented by Michael and his friends - is heading straight for them...The Time We Have Taken is a celebration of the rhythms and intricacies of suburban life, and a meditation on its limitations.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 历史的轨迹总是引领着我们，直至今日我们都能有幸地活着见证着这个时刻。1970年夏日郊外的一个清晨，彼得•凡•莱因，一位无线电和电视机商店店主，突然间意识到自己的这个社区已经有上百年的历史。于是他联系了市长，召集了委员会，并且急切地安排着庆祝计划。就在那个早餐，临近几条街，丽塔被丈夫的鼾梦声吵醒。几年前维克搬到了北方，留下了空荡荡的寂静房子，而他们之间仍然保有联系。他们的儿子也搬走了，迈克尔现在在大学，探索新的想法和世界上成熟的爱。然而丽塔仍然执意地呆在这里的老城区，她无法想象离开自己如此深爱的地方会怎样生存下去。反而她承担了起了照顾-寡妇韦伯斯特夫人另一所房子的责任，这处曾属于该地区地标工厂如今已经凋敝。因为生活的纠葛，委员会的委员们准备树立一幅壁画来纪念这段代表了新老交替时代的历史变迁，《我们的岁月》是一部为了缅怀和纪念那段流逝的乡村生活的抒情诗歌…… (Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：Long-listed for the IMPAC Prize
2008 The Miles Franklin Literary Award澳洲富蘭克林文學獎得主[S1]
About the Author/作者介绍： 出生在墨尔本的史蒂文•卡罗尔在格伦罗伊长大。曾就读于在澳大利亚拉筹伯大学，在高中任职英语教师之前，他在上世纪70年代曾组建过一支乐队。离开乐坛后，他开始投身剧作写作，曾是《星期日时代报》的戏剧评论家。如今这位在澳洲获奖无数的作家已经全身心地投入写作工作，定居于维多利亚州的不伦瑞克。Steven Carroll achieves a luminous intimacy with his characters as he explores both a society teetering on the edge of radical change, and the richness and complexity of that most common of Australian experiences - the suburbs.
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