AN EQUAL MUSIC

Book ID/图书代码： 12844007B16206

English Summary/英文概要： A powerful love story from the author of the international bestseller A SUITABLE BOY

A chance sighting on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her music . . . AN EQUALl MUSIC is a book about love, about the love of a woman lost and found and lost again; it is a book about music and how the love of music can run like a passionate fugue through a life. It is the story of Michael, of Julia, and of the love that binds them.

’A novel that can stand being reread and reread, but the first time round is an emotional cliffhanger ... secure a copy for yourself, settle down, and prepare for the unforgettable’ Sunday Times

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 国际畅销书《如意郎君》的作者维克拉姆•塞斯讲述一段两个音乐家深情浪漫爱情故事。迈克尔•霍姆是一名小提琴家，成功的马焦雷四重奏成员之一。长时间以来，他一直饱受着十年前，和钢琴家朱莉娅•麦克尼科尔分手的困扰。现在的茱莉亚，已是一个孩子的母亲，而再次出乎意料的相遇，让爱火再度被燃起。 (Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：’Under the arrow of Eros I sit down and weep.’ If this sentence hovers close to parody or pastiche, it is also poetic and plangent, with just a hint of self-mockery, and it perfectly distils the variegated tone of Seth’s new novel. An Equal Music is a love story in which the object of desire is as much the art of music as it is the elusive Julia. Michael, who tells the story in the present tense, plays the violin in a string quartet. The life of this group, its rehearsals, dependencies and tensions, is the quietly flowing current which provides some sense of fragile continuity to what might otherwise be too evanescent a novel. For this is a book about the impermanence of relationships and the nostalgia which governs so large a part of our existences. Readers expecting to return to the India of A Suitable Boy will be confounded - this is set mainly in central London, with Lancashire, Vienna and Venice also impinging upon the action. Seth’s mastery of dialogue and his gentle nuanced descriptive art are, however, as subtle here as in anything he has written. This is a loving novel in which Terpsichore is the prevailing muse, not Eros. Review by ALASTAIR NIVEN, Director of the British Council ---Kirkus UK

About the Author/作者介绍： 維克拉姆.賽斯生於1952年。作者早年曾夢想做一位經濟學家，後改行寫作。多年來賽斯在英國，美國加利福尼亞州，中國以及印度留下足跡。迄今為止，賽斯已經發表多部優秀小說，包括《如意郎君》這套國際頭號暢銷三部曲， An Equal Music以及其他多部優秀小說。此外，作者還是一位詩人，出版過Beastly Tales等五部詩集。

Vikram Seth was born in 1952. He trained as an economist and has lived for several years each in England, California, China and India. He is the author of A Suitable Boy, which was an international number one bestseller, An Equal Music and several other novels. He has also written five volumes of poetry including Beastly Tales.

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