THE LANDSCAPE OF DESIRE

Book ID/图书代码： 11980508B21322

English Summary/英文概要： Several months have passed since the legendary explorers Burke and Wills disappeared into the desert and their whereabouts remain a mystery. Now, a search party has assembled to rescue them. Meanwhile, two other men are wandering lost in the outback: one on the verge of reaching safety; the other, broken and trapped at the heart of the continent with an Aboriginal tribe as his only hope of survival. And back in the city an actress, star of the stage in Melbourne and Sydney, longs for the return of Burke and Wills for personal reasons that will only gradually become apparent.
Loosely based on the ill-fated Burke and Wills Expedition, The Landscape of Desire re-imagines the lives of the key players in this historic event, and weaves them into a narrative that spans continents and decades. Written in mesmerizing prose, The Landscape of Desire slowly yields up its own secrets.
With echoes of Heart of Darkness and The English Patient, it is a stunning debut novel of love and identity, desire and death, set in rapidly changing yet still unknown Australia.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 繼《黑暗之心》(Heart of Darkness 20世紀最具影響力的中篇小說)和普立茲得將小說《英倫情人》(The English Patient)，這是本令人為之一亮的首部作品。融合愛情、死亡和人性慾望的元素，讓你更深入了解南半球大陸未知的神秘。
和Wills兩位傳奇的探險家深入沙漠探勘，卻神秘的失蹤達數月之久音訊全無。
一隻白色的右手手套隨著Burke的探勘報告被人發現而送交到神秘組織，但另一隻左手手套卻被藏在Wills的顯微鏡盒子裡避免被組織發現。隨著手套還有三封信件和一只懷錶，其中連結了什麼樣的關聯。為了尋訪兩人一隻搜救隊伍組成，他們究竟會發現有關The Landscape of Desire什麼樣的秘密。(CL)

Awards/获奖情况：’A bold performance. Lyrical, precise, mysterious. The retelling of a familiar story that gets less and less familiar as we read.’---David Malouf 戴維•馬洛夫《記住巴比倫》

Kevin Rabalais is a very fine new writer. Reading his work put me in mind of a young Michael Ondaatje — daring, musical, intelligent and out on the edge.---Colum McCann美國知名作家柯倫•麥克恩

’A truly remarkable achievement.’---Alex Miller 艾力克斯．米勒

’With cool authority Kevin Rabalais decants the heady brew of sexual repression and personal ambition that fueled the Victorian mania for expedition. Time is fluid and as lethal as the landscape in this richly detailed, affecting, and elegiac novel.’---Valerie Martin 華樂麗.馬丁

’ It will reward anyone who enjoys the use of fact has a basis for well-wrought, poetic fiction. With its balance of elegant language, plot-driven action, contemplation and thematic seriousness, it is a very likely feature on 2008 literary awards shortlists.’---Max Oliver (Australian Bookseller & Publisher)

’An extraordinary feat of dexterity and imagination.’---Claire Sutherland (Herald Sun)

’This is a beautiful story, intensely evocative, with long-buried secrets gradually, tantalisingly revealed.’---Mary Ann Elliott (Toowomba Chronicle )

’The Landscape of Desire has a cinematic quality.’---Simon Caterson (The Age)

’This is a brilliant, ambitious novel by a fine new writer.’---The Big Issue

’Author Kevin Rabalais’ has written a remarkable debut novel in which he has imbued the figures with thought and feeling, rounding and colouring them so they no longer stare flatly at us, but become flesh and blood.’---Natasha Mirosch (Courier Mail)

’The Landscape of Desire is an assured and forceful novel; an exquisite book that, once you’ve begun reading it, you’ll find it very hard to drag yourself away from.’---Diane Stubbings (Canberra Times)

’Landscape of Desire is a stunning debut and an impressive attempt to give our colonial history some mythic resonance ... nearly brilliant.’---Mary Vernon (Townsville Bulletin)

’Immediately we are transported through the minutiae of the explorers’ treasured items into 19th century life ... the book’s expansive, rhetorical quality is well suited to the tragic nature of the Burke and WIlls story.’---Johanna Leggatt (Sun Herald)

’Fact or fiction, this is a moving look at a remarkable chapter in our history.’--- Cecily Ryan (Daily Telegraph)

About the Author/作者介绍： Kevin Rabalais grew up in New Orleans and now lives in Melbourne. He is coeditor of Novel Voices (Writer’s Digest Books, 2003), conversations with award winning American writers. His work has appeared in the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Weekend Australian, the Wellington Dominion-Post, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and in numerous literary journals, including Tin House, Brick and The Kenyon Review.
Kevin Rabalais 美國紐奧良出生，現居澳洲墨爾本。Kevin早期編輯雜誌時，曾經與多位美國大師級作家訪談，定期在澳洲各期刊雜誌發表專欄 ( Age / Sydney Morning Herald / Weekend Australian / Wellington Dominion-Post / the New Orleans Times-Picayune / Tin House / Brick / The Kenyon Review)。這本首部作品除了受到澳洲媒體的肯定，一出版也深受各界矚目。幾位大師作者也對此作品讚譽有加。

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