THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR
Book ID/图书代码： 11701208B21107
English Summary/英文概要： India, 1857 – the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned into bloody rebellion on their British overlords. The Siege of Krishnapur is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the subcontinent. Rumours of strife filter in from afar and yet the members of the colonial community remains confident of their military and above all, moral superiority. But when they find themselves under actual siege, the true character of their dominion – at once brutal, blundering, and wistful – is soon revealed.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作为"帝国三部曲"中的第二部作品，《克里希纳普之围》(The Siege of Krishnapur)，以1857的印度反叛作为背景，帮助作者法瑞尔一举成功捧得了1973年度的布克文学大奖(Booker Prize).
克里希纳普是一座位于印度北部平原之上的边塞小城。
虽然到了1857年春，军事哗变的动荡与血腥即将横扫整个印度，长久以来饱受英国殖民统治的压迫之苦，印度国内民众压抑已久的不满情绪与解放运动的大势所趋正相互交映，而众多本土官兵们正密谋酝酿着一场声势浩大的武装起义，以期一举彻底推翻英国人的禁锢和高压，但是此时此刻混沌的触角显然尚未触及到这座地处偏远的宁静小镇，对于克里希纳普城中的英国人们而言，一切依然显得是如此井井有条，对于自身军事的信心满满以及高人一等的种族优越感彻底蒙蔽了他们的耳目，如此地置若罔闻，以至于自始至终他们嗅不出任何一丝战争的味道。
然而，正是由于这种放松和懈怠，才使得他们在突如其来的兵变面前表现得缺乏准备、措手不及。来自小城旁边军营的印度叛军很快便攻入了城中，而英国人在毫无任何准备的情况下唯有仓促迎战，在遭受了重创之后，他们只能被迫撤至英殖民辖区当中进行最后的抵抗。他们武器有限、弹药稀缺，甚至连食物供给也随时面临着中断的危险；而更为糟糕的是，伴随着庞泼的雨势以及印度人猛烈的炮击，最后的防线也渐渐变得难以维系... ...(ANDY)
Awards/获奖情况："Farrell was an eye opener for me. He wrote novels set in the past in a whole new way, informed and sensitive yet setical. Also he was writing about out the British Empire, and scatningly, back in the 1970s when fen here about the uglier parts of their country’s past wanted to think of English Passengers
"Suspense and subtlety, humour and horror, the near-neighbourliness of heroism and insanity: it is rare to find such divergent elements being controlled in one hand and being raced, as it were, in one yoke. But Farrell manages just this here: his imaginative insight and technical virtuosity combine to produce a novel of quite outstanding quality."-- The Times (London)
"The magnificient passages of action in The Siege of Krishnapur, its gallery of characters, its unashamedly detailed and fascinating dissertations on cholera, gunnery, phrenology, the prodigal inventiveness of its no doubt also well-documented scenes should satisfy the most exacting and voracious reader. For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough to make it a masterpiece."-- John Spurling, The New Statesman
..".a masterpiece as unclassifiable as Giuseppe Lampedusa’s novel The Leopard or Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel, The Blue Flower. A historical novel, a comedy of manners, an intellectual history, an evocation of scene: It is all of these. But it is the inimitable combination of these ingredients that gives the book its perculiar savor."-- Columbus Dispatch
About the Author/作者介绍： J.G.法瑞尔(J.G. FARRELL)1935年1月出生于英国利物浦。1956年他进入英国著名的牛津大学布雷齐诺斯学院深造学习，期间却不幸染上了脊髓灰质炎。不过，正是这段特殊的人生经历，为其今后的文学创作带来了巨大的影响，事实上法瑞尔于1965年所推出的第二部小说作品《肺》(THE LUNG)，便是取材于此。
作为其代表性的小说系列“帝国三部曲”的第一部，《烦事重重》(TROUBLES)一书为他于1971年赢得了「法伯尔纪念奖」(Faber Memorial Prize) 以及本年度的「失落的布克奖」(Lost Man Booker Prize)，而在上世纪八十年代，该书则被成功改编成电影作品而搬上了荧幕；三部曲中的第二部作品《包围克里希纳普》(The Siege of Krishnapur)，以1857年印第安反叛作为背景，更是赢得了1973年度的布克文学大奖(Booker Prize)；而紧随其后于1978年问世的系列第三部《新加坡风云》(THE SINGAPORE GRIP)同样深受读者的好评。
法瑞尔一生当中的绝大多数时间都漂泊于海外，他的足迹遍布法国、美国以及远东等地区。1979年四月间，法瑞尔移居至英国科克郡，不幸的是，四个月之后，他便在一次事故当中溺水身亡，享年44岁。
J G Farrell was born in Liverpool in January 1935. In 1956 he went to study at Brasenose College, Oxford; it was while there he contracted polio. He drew heavily on his experience for his second novel, The Lung (1965). His novel, Troubles (1970), the first in the Empire trilogy, won the Faber Memorial Prize in 1971. A film version of Troubles was made for British television in 1988. The second in the Empire trilogy, The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) won the Booker Prize. J G Farrell died in 1979.
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