THE GARDEN OF BAD DREAMS

Book ID/图书代码： 00970008B22687

English Summary/英文概要： A glittering collection of short stories from acclaimed novelist Christopher Hope: a conjuror of strange people and places.
In The Garden of Bad Dreams characters strive for order despite the entropy that surrounds them: a nostalgic circus man is compelled to collect small people; an industrious monk strives to push a mountain away from his monastery; the widow of an English captain tends her rose garden wearing an old Panama hat and tiny red slippers on her bound feet; and desperate soldiers eat an entire zoo, leaving only a pale jaguar from the jungles of South America.
Transporting its readers from a city under siege to a forested hillside in central Serbia, via an ex-servicemen’s estate in Badminton, The Garden of Bad Dreams is an imaginative feast, a surprising, exhilarating meeting place for the absurd and the strangely familiar, by a writer at the height of his powers.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 曾以一部Kruger’s Alp一舉摘得惠特布萊德小說獎桂冠
又以Serenity House入選1992年布克獎決選名單

這是備受讚譽的知名小說家克裡蒂托夫.霍普的一部短篇故事集：一個勤奮的僧人想要推走修道院不遠處的大山；智慧的英國船長為他的玫瑰園戴上了巴拿馬的帽子和紅色的小拖鞋；絕望的士兵吃掉了整個動物園，除了那只來自南非叢林的灰白美洲虎…

怪異、荒謬的情節設計，The Garden of Bad Dreams是一部激發無限想像力的故事盛會。(Claire)

Awards/获奖情况：’Gloriously imaginative... Idiosyncratic, vividly beguiling… Christopher Hope’s stories are as tightly focussed as poetry… Free from the shape of conventional narrative, which builds up to a climax and declines to denouement, they reveal significant moments in extraordinary lives… [Hope] is a virtuoso of the written word.’ Patrick Skene Catling, Daily Telegraph
’The Garden of Bad Dreams is full of oddities. There are dwarf-collectors, witches, magic shoes that make and break relationships, feral humans, human animals… Unsettling and uncanny… Real life as The Garden of Bad Dreams tells it, is far stranger than fiction.’ Sara Keating, Sunday Business Post
’13 perfectly distilled, high proof, short, sharp shots.’ Jacqui L’Ange, Cape Times
’Clever and funny… [Hope] is the master of the arresting statement.’ Sarah Curtis, TLS
’There is something almost Swiftian in the gusto with which Hope embraces the absurd… Antic and exuberant…a mix of the colloquial and the puckishly clever… enigmatic yet also racy, the dense fragments of The Garden of Bad Dreams are redolent of forbidden sweets and a restless satirical mischief.’ Henry Hitchings, Financial Times
’[Hope’s stories] show a virtuoso command of styles, settings and subject matter, as if to demonstrate what modern short story can do. Reading them is like undertaking a journey of literary exploration, never sure where we are heading, or just what is happening to us.’ Jan Morris, Guardian

About the Author/作者介绍： 克裡蒂托夫.霍普於1944年出生在約翰尼斯堡，曾著有九部小說和一本短篇故事集，包括Kruger’s Alp，贏得惠特布萊德小說獎；Serenity House入選1992年布克獎決選名單；My Mother’s Lovers於2006年由Atlantic Books出版，贏得無數美譽。克里斯多夫還是一位詩人和劇作家，還著有頗受好評的回憶錄（White Boy Running）（1988）。

Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg in 1944. He is the author of nine novels, including Kruger’s Alp, which won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, Serenity House, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize, and My Mother’s Lovers, published by Atlantic Books in 2006 to great acclaim. He is also a poet and playwright and author of the celebrated memoir White Boy Running (1988).

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