THE MUSIC ROOM
Book ID/图书代码： 11701209B30688
English Summary/英文概要： William Fiennes spent his childhood in a magical place, a moated castle, the perfect environment for a child with a brimming imagination. It is a house alive with history, beauty and mystery, but the young boy growing up in it is equally in awe of his brother Richard. Eleven years older and a magnetic presence, Richard suffers from severe epilepsy. His energy influences the rhythms of the family and the house’s internal life, and his story inspires a journey, interwoven with loving recollection, towards an understanding of the mind.
This is a song of home, of an adored brother and of the miracle of consciousness. The chill of the ‘dark historical spaces’ coexists with the warmth and chatter of the family kitchen, and the surrounding landscapes are distinguished by ancient trees, secret haunts, the moat’s depths and temptations. Bursting with tender detail, and combining humour, pathos and wisdom, The Music Room is a sensuous tribute to place, memory and the permanence of love.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一部緬懷手足之情的感人回憶錄 作者曾在家族擁有七百年歷史的古堡度過一段美妙的童年時光，而這間位於牛津郡中心的中世紀建築物不僅本身蘊含其豐富的歷史，更包含作者一生最難忘的回憶。作者的哥哥Richard比他年長11歲，患有癲癇症，從他有記憶以來，哥哥一直忍受著病痛的折磨，無形中也影響了家庭的氣氛及心情的「節奏」，有時因他的病發全家有如貝多芬交響曲般變化無常，時而喜樂時而悲傷，當然最後他也提早結束一生。
有書評家對此書做出以下評論：「這是一部讀起來有如布魯斯‧查特文（Bruce Chatwin）的「巴塔哥尼亞高原上」（IN PATAGONIA）的清新感，又流露出具有電影「睡人」（AWAKENINGS）般令人感動的筆觸的作品！」(VL)
Awards/获奖情况：英國「霍桑登獎」(Hawthornden Prize)及「毛姆小說獎」(Somerset Maugham award)得主！ Praise for THE MUSIC ROOM :
In this unusual and beautiful memoir, William Fiennes relates the short, difficult life of his brother Richard who was epileptic and, after a childhood fever, developed brain damage. The Fiennes lived in Broughton Castle, which is described with passionate appreciation. Richard’s illness was always a potential source of danger and yet he was an infinitely touching character with a passion for puns, herons and football. Fiennes has written a small masterpiece, a tribute to the power of place, family and memory, and to a childhood that was part idyll, part nightmare’ ---Daily Telegraph, ’50 best summer reads’
‘At the end of William Fiennes’s memoir, tucked among the acknowledgments, is a line from Carl Jung: “The beloved dead are our task.” It is a task that he fulfils so richly that on putting the book down I felt as if I had been hypnotised. And I am no easy subject: wary of “writerly” self-consciousness and crossly intolerant of memoirs without event. This one, however, held me entranced, afraid and awed…William Fiennes [is] a master of words… All human grief and glory shimmers off the page’---The Times‘
About the Author/作者介绍： William Fiennes was educated at Oxford. He is the author of THE SNOW GEESE, which won the Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham award, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, and The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and he has contributed to Granta, the London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement and The Observer, amongst other publications.
William Fiennes，畢業於英國牛津大學。前作THE SNOW GEESE曾榮獲霍桑登獎」(Hawthornden Prize)及「毛姆小說獎」(Somerset Maugham award)等殊榮，並入圍「山繆強森非文學書獎」(Samuel Johnson Prize)及「周日泰晤士報」年度新進作家獎。此外他也常在英國報章媒體如：文學雜誌《格蘭塔》Granta，《倫敦書評》the London Review of Books，《泰晤士報文學增刊》The Times Literary Supplement及《觀察家》The Observer撰寫專欄報導。
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