THE LOVE OF STONES
Book ID/图书代码： 06580004B05005
English Summary/英文概要： Burrowing through the goldsmiths’ quarters and hidden archives of London, Tokyo, and Istanbul, Katharine Sterne is on the trail of a ruby, diamond, and pearl brooch once worn by Queen Elizabeth I. Interwoven with the tale of her hunt is that of a pair of Iraqi Jewish brothers who traveled to London two hundred years earlier with fortunes made from an unearthed jar of priceless stones. Spanning two continents and six centuries, The Love of Stones follows three very different people, each consumed by the same desire—possession of the legendary jewel—which binds their stories together in an irresistible quest.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 對於寶石的鍾愛可說是千年不衰，本書描寫的就是一個跨越兩個大陸和6個世紀的故事。這件珠寶名叫“三位一體”，由紅寶石，鑽石和珍珠構成，它使所有的同類相形失色。一個現代女性在許多金匠的住處搜尋，並到倫敦，東京和伊斯坦布爾的秘密檔案中查閱資料，試圖發現“三位一體”的蹤跡。因為它曾經掛在伊莉莎白一世的胸前，然後就不知所蹤了。再往前追蹤，可以知道，200年以前，有兩個伊拉克人在地下發現了一罐無價的珠寶，他們將這些珠寶帶到倫敦。(VC)
Awards/获奖情况：版權已售： 英美 “Equal parts mystery-thriller, literary novel and history lesson...an intriguing high-tension novel.”---Los Angeles Times
“If there is such a thing as a poet’s thriller, Tobias Hill’s new novel, The Love of Stones, is that.”---The New York Times Book Review
“Absorbing...compelling...[with] the urgent readability of a detective novel.”---The Washington Post Book World
“Rendered with lush poetic detail...Its intrigue, its precision and its intellectual sophistication make it a glittering production and a carefully honed, delicious quest.”---The Dallas Morning News
About the Author/作者介绍： Tobias Hill was born in London. In 2003 the TLS nominated him as one the best young writers in Britain; in 2004 he was selected as one of the country’s Next Generation poets and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His collection of stories, Skin, won the PEN/Macmillan Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize. The Cryptographer, his third novel was called ‘a supremely elegant and ambiguous thriller’ in the Sunday Times.
陶比亞斯．希爾（Tobias Hill）生於英國。得獎詩人。因出版兩部詩集Year of the Dog和Midnight in the City of Clocks而名聲大噪。被稱為令人難忘的詩集的Midnight in the City of Clocks是一部關於日本的報告文學。Tobias Hill以其作品贏得了100多項獎項。他的小故事集Skin1997年六月發佈時便取得了很好的反響，獲得了98年Macmillan/Pen獎，及98年Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys杯的亞軍。98年Tobias Hill成為 倫敦動物園就職常駐詩人。
《泰晤士報》文學增刊（TLS）二○○三年選出的最佳年輕作家之一。2004年《周日泰晤士報》選為當年度最佳年輕詩人之一。第三本小說《The Cryptographer》出版後，讓英國作者拜雅特（A. S. Byatt）稱讚他為”英國最具原創性、最有趣的年輕小說家前三名”。 《寶石迷情》 The Love of Stones (2001)簡體版權已售。
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