英國當代文學大師 / 布克獎得主 -巴瑞‧安斯華(Barry Unsworth)於2012年6月5日逝世，享年81歲
不斷重演的歷史，利益開發與歷史保存的嚴重衝突，以及古文明之美，於此大師之作再現
普立茲文學獎、美國國家圖書獎、柑橘文學獎等得主、英美媒體一致好評推薦
相關網路消息：
BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18364019
New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/books/barry-unsworth-historical-novelist-dies-at-81.html
以下大師作品簡體已售，繁體版權開放！
The Songs of the Kings
Sacred Hunger (榮獲布克獎之作)
The Ruby in Her Navel
Morality Play
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Reviews
“A richly imagined novel squarely in the tradition of his Booker Prize triumph, Sacred Hunger. Unsworth has an Austen-esque flair for character and an uncanny ability to bring the past to life."---Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March 普立茲文學獎小說獎得主
“This is the work of a master: lean, elegant, and wise, weaving the doomed ambitions of two fallen empires into a compelling story that also deftly comments on the American presence in Iraq."---Andrea Barrett, National Book Award-winning author of Ship Fever 美國國家圖書獎得主
“Land Of Marvels is up to Unsworth’s highest standard, featuring a cast of fascinating characters thrown together in the desert of Mesopotamia just before the Great War, all furiously digging for the past and turning up the future. American readers will recognize the landscape and learn some surprising facts about how we got exactly where we are right now. As well a great read, Land of Marvels is an important book.”---Valerie Martin, Orange Prize-winning author of Property 英國柑橘文學獎得主
“An intriguing story, elegantly and eloquently told.”---Peter Ackroyd, bestselling author of London: The Biography 彼得．艾克洛德，暢銷作家
“Immensely intelligent and entertaining… Not only does [Unsworth] confidently steer a complicated narrative populated by numerous characters, all of them believable and interesting, but he displays an impressive command of archaeology and geology, difficult subjects that are at the center of his story… Land of Marvels can-and I believe should-be read as a corrective to the arrogance and overweening self-confidence that led the United States into the morass of Iraq, but it also is a reminder that nothing is forever… but it also can be read as singularly skillful entertainment. Its characters are real, its prose is fluid, its sense of place is pervasive, and its ending is exactly right, on a note of loss, survival and irony. All in all, a lovely, memorable book.”---Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
“Unsworth assembles his layers with the subtlety you would expect from a renowned, if restrained, historical novelist and Booker Prize winner… Amid the tension, and some deft characterization, Unsworth’s themes of extraction and exploitation are irresistible… Unsworth’s denouement is dramatic and richly symbolic…. In Land of Marvels Unsworth succeeds in summoning the demons and the angels of Iraq’s present and past. Not bad for a volume you could read in an afternoon.”---The New York Times Book Review
“[Unsworth’s] work is as clean as Hemingway’s and as dark as Conrad’s, and it’s braced with a loathing of exploitative power... In seamless prose Unsworth exposes his characters’ myriad ulterior motives, all of which mirror today’s news. The conclusion is shocking, but the real triumph is the book’s commentary on modern Iraq... Beautifully disguised as a literary thriller, the novel is a reminder that if we continue on our present course we won’t just be doomed to repeat history, we will be doomed utterly.”---Men’s Journal