BUTTERFLY’S SHADOW
Book ID/图书代码： 00200008B29389
English Summary/英文概要： When the curtain falls on Puccini’s opera, Cho-Cho-San – Madame Butterfly – hands over her only child to his American father, and kills herself. Taking this searing moment as its springboard, Butterfly’s Shadow sends its characters spinning into a future undreamed of in the original.
At the centre of it all is the child, Joey, carried away by his father and new step-mother to a brighter future in America. But it’s not that simple. Each is haunted in different ways by memories of what really happened that day – Joey thinks he heard screaming, his father can’t seem to find peace, his step-mother has stumbled into a deceit that will destroy her happiness. But soon, they are caught in the shifting perspectives of a dramatic era – the Depression, Pearl Harbor, the horrors of war and, finally, the moment that time stopped in Nagasaki.
When the deadly dust of the A-bomb has settled, Joey finds his way back to the home of his memories, searching for traces of his mother. What he finds there will answer his questions in a heartrendingly poignant way.
Butterfly’s Shadow is a daring imaginative leap, a richly emotional story of thwarted love, lost hopes and self-discovery, set against some of recent history’s most dramatic events.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 給讀者蝴蝶夫人淒美故事之後的完整交代
如果你曾為普契尼歌劇《蝴蝶夫人(Madama Butterfly)》的淒美故事而深受感動，那這本書《Butterfly’s Shadow》一定不能錯過。
蝴蝶夫人淒美愛情的深層意義，突顯了當時東西文化，包含古老傳統和現代文化之間在價值和道德觀方面的衝突矛盾。
作者Lee Langley在好萊塢因編寫許多部電影劇本，其中由安東尼霍普金斯(Anthony Hopkins)主演的得獎電影《九死一生(The Tenth Man - 改編自暢銷作家葛拉漢格林(Graham Greene))》的小說，和1985年榮獲兩項艾美獎的英國暢銷小說《一個富有的女人(A woman of substance)》而受到國際文壇矚目，由此可見此作者能將各種故事改寫成劇本的功力發揮的淋漓盡致。
除了改編劇本之外，Lee Langley在1987年的作品《Changes of Address》入圍英國最古老的文學霍桑登獎(Hawthornden Prize)決選，1992年的《Persistent Rumours》榮獲美國作家協會獎（Writers Guild of America Awards）和不列顛國協作家獎(Commonwealth Writers’ Prize），1996年受邀成為英國皇家文學會(Royal Society of Literature）的榮譽會員。
在此推薦的這本書即是作者改編普契尼《蝴蝶夫人》後續發展編織的動人情節，提拱讀者主角Cho Cho San美麗故事的完整交代。
《蝴蝶夫人》原作故事：美國軍官Pinkerton與在長崎身為藝妓的蝴蝶夫人ChoCho San結婚。
ChoCho San改信Pinkerton的基督教引起軒然大波，遭到親友離棄。但Pinkerton適時的安慰使ChoCho San的內心燃起希望。
後來Pinkerton必須回到美國，並承諾ChoCho San三年後會回到長崎，而三年過後Pinkerton不知道的是ChoCho San已生下一個男孩喚作Joey。在苦苦守候丈夫的歸來，ChoCho San換來的卻是Pinkerton已婚的消息。
Pinkerton得知自己成為了父親，便和ChoCho San忠心的女僕Suzuki商量，請ChoCho San讓他和在美國所娶的妻子Nancy，把孩子帶去美國。ChoCho San知道真相後，忍痛答應和孩子道別，隨後取出短劍自刎，而原作故事在此結束。
當普契尼的歌劇落幕後，作者Lee Langley震撼人心的故事《Butterfly’s Shadow》便在這裡開始承接後續發展。
故事的開始是那樣悲傷，然而卻是充滿希望的延續。
蝴蝶夫人的兒子Joey和父親與繼母到了美國，然而得到幸福不是輕易的事。
長大後的Joey因為混血兒的身份，夾在東西方文化之間，得不到美國和日本人的認同。
Pinkerton因為內疚而心中無法得到平靜。
Joey的繼母Nancy，看似幸福的生活，背後其實充滿謊言。
在Joey得知父親與繼母隱瞞了自己真實身份的時候，他決定回到日本找出親生母親蝴蝶夫人的過去，也將發現母親其實還活著未死的消息……與母親遲遲未寄出的信件回憶……(CL)
Awards/获奖情况：美國作家協會和不列顛國協作家獎得主
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UK: Chatto (Editor Penelope Hoare)
Germany: Elke Heidenreich Verlag
About the Author/作者介绍： Lee Langley was born in Calcutta, India of Scottish parents. She is the author of several novels, including Changes of Address (1987), a largely autobiographical account of her childhood in India, the first in a loose trilogy of novels set in India which was short-listed for the Hawthornden Prize . It was followed by Persistent Rumours (1992), which won the Writers’ Guild Award (Best Fiction) and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book), and A House in Pondicherry (1995). Her novel, Distant Music (2001), spans six centuries in a narrative that begins on the Portuguese island of Madeira in the 15th century and ends in London in the year 2000. Her most recent novel, A Conversation on the Quai Voltaire (2006), was set in 18th and 19th century Paris, Italy, Russia and Egypt, and recreated the life of Dominique Vivant Denon, one of the most significant figures in French art history.
She has also written several film scripts and screenplays, including television adaptations of Graham Greene’s The Tenth Man; several stories by Rumer Godden, and Barbara Taylor Bradford’s A Woman of Substance. She has written on travel and the arts for leading newspapers and magazines.
Lee Langley is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in Richmond, London. Her next novel, “Butterfly’s Shadow” set in mid-twentieth century America and Japan, takes Puccini’s opera “Madame Butterfly” as a springboard to send the characters into an imagined future.
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