THE OUTLANDER
Book ID/图书代码： 06481007B15628
English Summary/英文概要： In 1903 a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the west, one quick step ahead of the law. She has just become a widow by her own hand.
Gil Adamson’s extraordinary novel opens in heart-pounding mid-flight and propels the reader through a gripping road trip with a twist -- the steely outlaw in this story is a grief-struck nineteen-year-old woman. As the young widow encounters characters of all stripes -- unsavoury, wheedling, greedy, lascivious, self-reliant, and occasionally generous and trustworthy -- Adamson weds her brilliant literary style to the gripping, moving, picaresque tale of one woman’s deliberate journey into the wild.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： The Outlander is shortlisted for Prix Femina in France. Winners will be announced November 9, 2009.
女作家吉爾·亞當森（Gil Adamson）憑借小說處女作《異鄉人》（The Outlander）贏得了2008年度國際犯罪小說作家協會（The North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers）頒發的達許漢密特獎（The Dashiell Hammett Awards）。亦獲得了亞馬遜加拿大新作獎、Drummer General’s Award 、ReLit Award等獎項。同時也入圍不列顛國協作家獎最佳書籍獎與Trillium Book Award決選。
得到北美多項獎項的《異鄉人》同時也獲得許多讚美與評論。以西部荒野為基調，探索人性、異地生存的深刻故事。描述一位19歲的年輕寡婦，陷入與剛剛去世的丈夫相關的事件中。為了逃避追捕與現實的黑暗，她橫跨洛磯山脈來到了從不熟悉的西部荒野，途中遇到各式各樣的人，讓她看見到人性的多面。她該如何面對全新生活，等待她的又將是什麼呢……作者對人物細膩刻劃，深刻描繪了“來自外地”的心靈歷程。(VC)
Awards/获奖情况：2008年國際犯罪小說作家協會達許漢密特獎得獎作品
亦獲得亞馬遜加拿大新作獎、Drummer General’s Award 、ReLit Award Rights sold with pub dates:
USA – Ecco Press (June 2008)
UK – Bloomsbury (February 2009)
Australia - Allen & Unwin (June 2008)
Germany – C. Bertelsmann (2009)
Holland – De Bezige Bij (2008)
France – Christian Bougois (2009)
Editions Boreal (Quebec) 獲獎紀錄：
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and the Caribbean): Best Book(不列顛國協作家獎最佳書籍獎), Shortlisted (2008)
Hammett Prize for Crime-Writing(國際犯罪小說作家協會達許漢密特獎)http://www.crimewritersna.org/news/index.htm, Winner (2008)
Drummer General’s Award, Winner (2007)
Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, Winner (2008)
Trillium Book Award
, hortlisted (2008)
ReLit Award, Winner (2008)
Review
". . . [a] compelling debut. . . . lean prose, full-bodied characterization, memorable settings and scenes of hardship all lift this book above the pack."---Publishers Weekly
"A remarkable first novel, full of verve, beautifully written, and with all the panache of a great adventure."---Michael Ondaatje
"Gil Adamson’s The Outlander is, simply enough, a superb novel and one senses in the fine writing the potential, or perhaps the eventuality, of a major writer. The frayed material of the North American west is rendered in astonishingly fresh light. The Outlander is also suspenseful to a degree that you are often in a state of physical unrest, a condition only occasioned by first-rate fiction."--- Jim Harrison
". . .[The Outlander] is a hallucinatory road novel--or, more accurately, trail novel--written in a chanting prose that’s rich with wilderness description, physical adventure and barbed humor. . . . Here’s a novel that offers both an intense journey (Mary’s) and a portrait of a specific time and place: the Canadian frontier. . ."---The Seattle Times
". . .uniquely tasty. . . If The Outlander were only this wry reconstruction of the turn-of-the-century woman, it would be worth the price of admissions. It is much more. . . A dark wonder."---Globe and Mail
"The Outlander is a riveting tale of a woman’s thirst for freedom."---Entertainment Weekly
". . .a gorgeous surprise of a book, unfairly neglected by prizes and pundits alike. Stylish and compelling, this novel about a woman’s picaresque flight from and toward justice is both elegant in shape and exquisitely written. A powerful and wonderful imagination blossoms here."---Aritha Van Herk, author
"For readers who want a cracking good story with unforgettable characters engaged in tension-filled activities, and told with a superlative richness of language and a lushness of imagery, Gil Adamson’s novel, The Outlander, is it. Her widow, Mary Boulton, and "Bonny", her Reverend, are the ideal stuff and stuffings of legends."---January Magazine
"Gil Adamson’s first novel bolts off the opening page. . . An absorbing adventure from a Canadian poet and short story writer who knows how to keep us enthralled. . . . The Girl Being Chased is one of the most enduring figures of chivalric and chauvinistic literature. . . a strikingly pensive novel, anchored by the stark beauty of its setting and the harsh wisdom of its narrator. . . . Adamson is as captivating with descriptions of vast mountain ranges as she is with the smaller calamities. . . her story will unsettle your dreams just the same."---Washington Post
Gil Adamson’s The Outlander is, simply enough, a superb novel and one senses in the fine writing the potential, or perhaps the eventuality, of a major writer. The frayed material of the North American west is rendered in an astoundingly fresh light. The Outlander is also suspenseful to a degree that you are often in a state of physical unrest, a condition only occasioned by first rate fiction.---Jim Harrison
About the Author/作者介绍： Gil Adamson’s acclaimed short fiction has been widely published in magazines and literary journals, and her collection of stories received rave reviews. The Outlander, ten years in the writing, is her first novel. When Gil Adamson published her first two books, a volume of poetry (Primitive, 1991) and a collection of stories (Help Me, Jacques Cousteau, 1995), readers immediately recognized a unique and unusually compelling voice, one that partnered the random and the surreal with a finely tuned technical brilliance. The Outlander more than fulfills the promise of that voice, and was shortlisted for both the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and the Caribbean) for Best Book, and the Hammett Prize for Crime-Writing.
Gil Adamson出版過一本詩集(Primitive, 1991)與短篇選輯(Help Me, Jacques Cousteau, 1995)。常於文學期刊發表短篇故事。首作The Outlander獲得多項獎項。
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