NOVEL ABOUT MY WIFE

Book ID/图书代码： 01200007B17811

English Summary/英文概要： If I could build her again using words, I would: starting at her long, painted feet and working up, meticulously shading in every cell and gap and space for breath until her pulse just couldn’t help but kick back in to life; her hip bones, her red knuckles, the soft skin of her thighs, and her fine crackle of hair.Tom Stone, skinnyish, fortyish, English, is madly in love with his wife Ann, an Australian in self-imposed exile in London. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy their first, semi-derelict house in Hackney. They believe this is their settled future, despite Tom’s stalling career and their spiralling money troubles. But Ann becomes convinced she’s being shadowed by a local homeless man whose presence seems like a terrible omen. As her pregnancy progresses she spends hours cleaning and reorganising the house, and sits up all night talking with a new feverish passion. As their child grows, so too does Tom’s sense of an impending, nameless threat. Their home appears beset with vermin, smells and strange noises. On the verge of losing the house, Tom makes a decision that he hopes will save their lives. Dark, sensuous and utterly compelling, "Novel About My Wife" is a taut, chilling novel about the need for escape and the perils of forgetting.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 澳大利亞文學新星的哥特式小說，講述一個賢慧年輕的妻子如何變瘋。湯姆和深愛的妻子安剛從卡姆登的小公寓搬到英國哈克尼的大房子裡，他以為新的幸福生活將要開始，一切都蒸蒸日上，他和妻子共同等待著寶寶的降臨，寶寶出生後，安變得越來越不安。每天她要花大半天打掃整理房間，整晚上坐著，念叨著生活、愛、藝術的新的激情。這些熱忱的言談背後其實隱藏著黑暗，她念叨的原因是覺得有人在她家的新屋子周圍徘徊，威脅著她。其實，這一切都是安的臆想，湯姆後來證實根本沒有人在屋子周圍徘徊。（Celia）

Awards/获奖情况：榮獲2009年美國信徒圖書獎和新西蘭書展蒙大拿小說獎章 女性內心世界與驚悚小說的結合,堪比《別相信任何人》。 “描寫錯覺的恐怖故事。情節發展節奏快，直線發展。Perkins在保持情節緊 性和故事吸引力的同時，感情也緊張起來，各種主題平行發展。”——《泰晤士報》

“Perkins成功地結合了黑色幽默和懸疑小說，創造了一本複雜但獨特的小說，讓人一讀到底。”——《獨立報》

“一本讀了就不想放下的書，Perkins如此敏銳，讀者將在湯姆和安的世界中不能自拔。”——《多倫多星報》

“Perkins創造的Tom這個人物，讓人既同情，又憤恨。讀這本書絕對是種驚險的經歷。”——《紐西蘭先驅報》

About the Author/作者介绍： Emily Perkins的第一本作品集《NOT HER REAL NAME AND OTHER STORIES》獲得英國傑佛瑞•費伯紀念獎、新西蘭蒙大拿新人首本小說獎。1997年，她編撰了《THE PICNIC VIRGIN》新西蘭新型文學詩集。艾米麗的小說《LEAVE BEFORE YOU GO》《THE NEW GIRL》《NOVEL ABOUT MY WIFE》已經熱銷國際各國。《NOVEL ABOUT MY WIFE》榮獲2009年美國信徒圖書獎和新西蘭書展蒙大拿小說獎章。

Emily Perkins was born in New Zealand in 1970. She is the author of the short story collection Not Her Real Name, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the John Lewellyn Rhys Prize, and the novels Leave Before You Go and The New Girl. She lives in New Zealand and London with her husband and three young children.

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