SOPHIE AND THE RISING SUN: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 06120007B19160
English Summary/英文概要： Salty Creek is a sleepy Georgia town where everyone knows everyone else’s business, along with their place in the hierarchy of color, class, and family history. Strangers rarely enter their midst, and a mysterious arrival in the spring of 1939 soon sets tongues wagging.
A quiet, unassuming man with a secret history of his own, Mr. Oto is taken in as a gardener by Miss Anne, the town’s conscience-and its heart with no illusions about Salty Creek, or its inhabitants. One of these is Sophie, who lost her love during World War I and has resigned herself to a passionless existence taking care of her mother and two maiden aunts. Then one day, she and Mr. Oto speak for the first time. To Mr. Oto, whose heart has been full from the moment he saw Sophie, it is one of life’s miracles-when they finally break the silence of "the beauty of words unspoken."
When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and Mr. Oto’s newfound life comes under siege, it is Miss Anne who once again comes to his rescue in an act of uncommon courage and sacrifice. As for Sophie, who has fallen in love with Mr. Oto, she must decide how much she is willing to risk for a future with this man who has brought such joy into her life.
A radiant novel that gets the rhythms and cadences of small-town life exactly right, Sophie and the Rising Sun tells an unforgettable story of a time when the world lost its innocence-and of a town that finds its redemption in an extraordinary love. It is a major achievement from a novelist of rare grace and power.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 索尔特溪是乔治亚州的一个寂静小镇，每个人都了解其他人的情况，以及他们的人种、阶级和家庭历史。陌生人很少进入这个小镇。而1939年春天，一个神秘人的到来很快引来人们议论纷纷。
Oto先生是一个安静、谦逊的人，有着自己的秘密历史，他被安妮小姐带到镇上来当园丁。镇上的苏菲在第一次世界大战期间失去了挚爱。现在她负责照顾母亲和两个没结过婚的阿姨，过着心如止水的生活。有一天，她和先生Oto进行了第一次交谈。Oto先生奇迹般地对苏菲一见钟情……
当日本轰炸珍珠港，Oto先生的新生活遇到困难时，是安妮小姐凭着勇气和牺牲再一次救助了他。至于爱上了Oto的苏菲，她必须决定，为了这个给她生活带来欢乐的男人，自己愿意做出多少牺牲。
这是一部令人动容的小说，精准地描绘出了小镇生活的节奏和特点，讲述了一个发生在失去了纯真的世界中的故事——一个小镇在一段非凡的爱情之中完成了自己的救赎。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：《出版人周刊》
“……Trobaugh在这部作品中，再一次展现了人性的尊严和勇气所能够取得的温暖人心的小小胜利。”
小说同名电影已经拍摄完成，正在后期制作中。详情请见(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4532818/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
(https://www.facebook.com/sophieandtherisingsun?fref=ts).
Publishers Weekly
Part Remains of the Day, part wartime drama, this delicately written, somewhat didactic novel is set in Salty Creek, Ga., in the two years before Pearl Harbor. It focuses on Miss Anne, the moral center of the community, and on her recollection, years later, of the romance between town spinster Sophie and Grover Cleveland Oto, the California-born 50-year-old everyone thinks of as Miss Anne’s "Chinese" gardener. Both Sophie and Oto harbor secrets. Sophie’s is that the man she loved didn’t return from WWI; Oto’s is that happenstance and a Greyhound bus driver left him in Salty Creek, starved and in disgrace, far from his Japanese-American family. For two years the two are preternaturally aware of each other, but constrained from anything but brief, polite conversation. Each is a painter, and artistic imagination sustains both. In time, they fall into the habit of meeting at the riverbank on Sunday mornings with brushes and paper to work in companionable silence while the other townsfolk sing hymns at church. The requisite town snoop and the presence of Sophie and Anne’s household help ensures that Oto and Sophie keep a formal distance, but as the author’s lyrical flights intensify, so does the couple’s suppressed passion. Then the war unleashes cruelty disguised as patriotism and forces Oto into hiding. As in her earlier novel Praise Jerusalem!, Trobaugh depicts in aching detail the isolation that racism occasions, and once again suggests the small but heartwarming triumphs made possible by human dignity and courage.
A movie of Augusta Trobaugh’s SOPHIE AND THE RISING SUN has been made, and is in post-production at the moment.
You can learn more about the movie here (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4532818/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) and here (https://www.facebook.com/sophieandtherisingsun?fref=ts).
About the Author/作者介绍： Augusta Trobaugh，著有两部小说《Resting in the Bosom of the Lamb》《Praise Jerusalem!》，后者曾进入1993年Pirates Alley Faulkner竞赛的半决赛。她获得了乔治亚大学的文学硕士学位，专攻美国及南方文学。目前正在创作第四部小说。
Augusta Trobaugh is the author of two previous novels, Resting in the Bosom of the Lamb and Praise Jerusalem!, a semifinalist in the 1993 Pirates Alley Faulkner Competition. She holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Georgia, with a concentration in American and Southern literature, and her work has been funded through the Georgia Council of the Arts. She is at work on a new novel, her fourth.
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