THE CURSE OF CHALION

Book ID/图书代码： 13005504B04641

English Summary/英文概要： A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril has returned to the noble household he once served as page, and is named, to his great surprise, secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule. It is as assignment Cazaril dreads, for it must ultimately lead him to the place he most fears: the royal court of Cardegoss, where the powerful enemies who once placed him in chains now occupy lofty positions. but it is more than the traitorous intrigues of villains that threaten Cazaril and the Royesse Iselle here, for a sinister curse hangs like a sword over the entire blighted House of Chalion and all who stand in their circle. And only by employing the darkest, most forbidden of magics can Cazaril hope to protect his royal charge -- an act that will mark the loyal, damaged servant as a tool of the miraculous ... and trap him, flesh and soul, in a maze of demonic paradox, damnation, and death.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 落难老兵凯萨里在历尽沧桑之后，终能重返故国查里昂，但人事已非。
他投效过去服侍的大公宅第，只求一职温饱，大公夫人却委以重任，命他担任查里昂王储伊赛儿公主的秘书兼家教；而公主莽撞的弟弟泰帝斯王子极可能成为下任国王。凯萨里深感惊恐，因为这项职位可能会带他步入他最不想回去的地方－－查里昂宫廷。宫廷中复杂纠葛的权力欲望，步步将他与他想守护的人推上绝路；但伊赛儿姊弟面临的危险不只是阴谋与背叛，还有笼罩着整个查里昂王室血脉的不祥诅咒！
大难不死的凯萨里究竟还能如何使出浑身解数完成使命？为了保护主人，只能借助禁忌的黑魔法吗？五神到底会不会庇佑查里昂王国？命运待他究竟是残酷无情，还是别有用意？
全篇一气呵成，毫无冷场，布局复杂巧妙，叙事明快利落，让人翻开第一页就放不下手！精准犀利、洞悉世故的文字，俯拾即是的幽默机智，更是令人激赏回味！(RH)

Awards/获奖情况："Nicely detailed and wittily accented...Here’s hoping it launches a series of tales as well told as the Vorkosigan volumes."---ALA Booklist (starred review)

"This is one of the great ones."---Science Fiction Chronicle

Fresh, intriguing, and as always from Lois McMaster Bujold, superb.---Robert Jordan, New York Times best-selling author of The Wheel of Time Series

Betrayed by an unknown enemy into slavery, former soldier and courtier Lupe dy Cazaril escapes his bondage and returns to the royal household he once served. Entrusted with the teaching of the sister to the heir to the throne of Chalion, Cazaril finds himself drawn into a tangled web of politics and dark magic as he battles a curse that threatens the lives and souls of a family he has come to love. The author of the "Vorkosigan" series of dynastic sf turns her hand as competently and engagingly to the fantasy genre in a tale of quiet heroism and self-sacrifice. Compelling characters and richly detailed world-building make this a strong addition to fantasy collections. ---From Library Journal

In a nicely detailed and wittily accented (see the anecdote of the prince and the young sow) medieval world, Cazaril, a crippled soldier, is appointed tutor to the sister of the royal heir, thanks to the influence of the royal grandmother. The honor flings him head foremost into a cesspool of court intrigue, in which he encounters adolescent royals with wills (and won’t) of iron, scheming courtiers (even the ones on his side have so few scruples that with friends like these...), and enemies from the past as well as new ones. To that predicament and the tension of wondering whether his physical ailments can be cured, add a magic-tainted evil with a historic pedigree, and Cazaril becomes another of Bujold’s up-to-his-posterior-in-alligators heroes posthaste. The most negative thing to be said of the book is that others have done this kind of thing before. Few of those, however, have done it half as well, and any fan not fixated on Bujold for her Vorkosigan saga should thoroughly enjoy it. Indeed, here’s hoping it launches a series of tales as well told as the Vorkosigan volumes.---Roland Green, From Booklist

About the Author/作者介绍： 洛伊斯•麦克马斯特•比约德，1949年生于美国俄亥俄州，是迄今为止获奖最多的女性科幻作家。
比约德从小便喜爱阅读，受父亲的影响开始看科幻小说。中学时代初尝写作但仅为自娱。成家之后，迫于生计，以及在作家好友的鼓励下，才真正踏上专业写作之途。
1986年以《Shards of Honor》名声鹊起，以此作衍生出极受欢迎的招牌系列《Vorkosigan Saga》。她的创作迭获佳评与奖项肯定，包括三度星云奖、五度雨果奖。此外，作品也经常在《轨迹》杂志举办的最佳年度小说票选榜上名列前茅。近年又新开奇幻小说《五神传说》等系列，再度大放光彩。育有一对子女，现居美国明尼苏达州。
Lois McMaster Bujold burst upon the science fiction world in 1986 with the first of the Miles Vorkosigan Saga novels, Shards of Honor. She has won the Hugo award four times, and the Nebula award twice.Her short story, Labyrinth won first place in Analog Magazine’s annual awards.Having already created a classic hero in the form of Miles Vorkosigan, and captured a cult following the process, Lois McMaster Bujold now takes up her prolific pen to produce an epic of the most fantastic magnitude. A brilliant and detailed landscape populated with illustrious and demonic characters, ushers the arrival of a hero for the twenty-first century.

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