THE WONDER
Book ID/图书代码： 00200008B29357
English Summary/英文概要： As a child, Lucas assumed that all children who’d lost their parents lived on water. Now a restless young man, and still sharing the West London narrow boat with his down-to-earth sister Denise, he secretly investigates the contents of an old wardrobe, in which he finds relics from the Midnight Ballet, an influential dance company of the 1960s founded by his Jamaican father, the charismatic Antoney Matheus. In his search to unravel the legacy of the Midnight Ballet, Lucas comes into contact with people who were drawn towards Antoney’s bright and dangerous star. He hears of hothouse rehearsals in an abandoned Notting Hill church, of artistic battles and personal betrayals, and a whirlwind European tour. Most importantly, Lucas learns about Antoney’s passionate and tumultuous relationship with Carla, Lucas’ mother, and the events that led to his father’s final disappearance. Vividly conjuring the world of 1950s Kingston, Jamaica, the Blues parties and early carnivals of Ladbroke Grove, the flower stalls and vinyl riflers of modern-day Portobello Road, and the famous leap and fall of Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, Diana Evans creates a haunting and visceral family mystery about absence and inheritance, the battle between love and creativity, and what drives a young man to take flight.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Antoney Matheus是世界著名的牙買加舞蹈家。他在60年代創立了「午夜芭蕾舞團」，在當時造成轟動，但是他卻一夕之間突然失蹤。Antoney的兒子Lucas和女兒Denise，因為沒有其他家人可以依靠，兩人只好被迫在倫敦河畔的一艘小船過活。
長大後的Lucas在父親的芭蕾舞館其中一個舊衣櫃中，發現了父親留下的物品。為了查明父親失蹤之謎，Lucas告別了姊姊Denise，開始了歐洲奇幻之旅。他來到一座被遺棄的教堂，這是舞者排練的地方，裡頭充滿著藝術氣息與魅力，但Lucas卻也見識到舞者暗地裡互相較勁的鬥爭和背叛。
Lucas漸漸了解到父親對藝術的熱愛，但是由於與母親不斷的爭吵迫使父親最終離開他們。然而這是否就是父親真正失蹤的原因……
作者生動刻畫了50年代牙買加的舞蹈和藍調音樂，與現實生活中俄羅斯舞者Vaslav Nijinsky一生的起伏。
Awards/获奖情况：`The most dazzling depiction of the world of dance since Ballet Shoes’ --The Times
`Evans interweaves the strands of her three-generation narrative with an exhilarating sense of place and period’ --Daily Telegraph
`The Wonder embraces its theme with great heart. It’s hard not to be seduced by its talented, difficult hero’ --Finacial Times
`bedazzling...the alluring fairytale quality of her story. Hauntingly good’ --Daily Mail
`fuelled by mystery at its heart, and by felicitous description...is delicacy and power in which Evans depicts emotional disturbance’--The Guardian
`sparkles with mood, music and the sway of street life’ --Marie Claire
’The author’s passion burns on the page, along with an almost tactile relish of the act of writing itself’ --Scotsman
`Evans...writes with eye-catching fluidity, gracefully pirouetting between Notting Hill in the 1990s, and the Caribbean a decade earlier.’ --The Sunday Times
"...like the movement of the dancers it describes, it feels always, captivatingly, `meant’" --Times Literary Supplement
`Evans...writes with eye-catching fluidity, gracefully pirouetting between Notting Hill in the 1990s, and the Caribbean a decade earlier.’ --The Sunday Times
About the Author/作者介绍： Her first novel, 26a, won the Orange Award for New Writers and is a former dancer, and this is the most dazzling depiction of the world of dance since Ballet Shoes.
2005惠特比書獎Whitbread Book Awards Winner 得主2006柑橘文學獎Orange Prize新人獎得主，同年的英國圖書年度作者獎The British Book Award – Writers of the Year(由英國出版工業運作的年度重要獎項)得主
Diana Evans 是新聞工作者，也是藝術評論家。《26a》(繁體已售)是她首部小說，文筆成熟而大獲好評。新作《The Wonder》以俄羅斯舞者Vaslav Nijinsky的一生傳奇所啟發，充分展現她卓越的筆觸與想像，使其作品極其富有強烈的生命力。
Format:电子手稿
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