PARROT AND OLIVIER IN AMERICA
Book ID/图书代码： 11701209B30814
English Summary/英文概要： Olivier is an aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer and twice Olivier’s age, always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Starting on different sides of history, their lives will be permanently joined by an enigmatic, one-armed Marquis.
When Olivier sets sail for the New World — ostensibly to study its prisons, but in reality to avoid yet another revolution — Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil.
As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, between their picaresque adventures apart and together — in love and politics, prisons and finance, homelands and brave new lands — a most unlikely friendship begins to take hold. And with their story, Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy — in theory, in practice, and in ongoing argument.
Parrot and Olivier in America is a dazzlingly inventive reimagining of Alexis de Tocqueville’s famous journey, brilliantly evoking the Old World colliding with the New. Above all, it is a wildly funny and deeply tender portrait of two men who come to form an almost impossible friendship, and a completely improbable work of art.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Olivier是一個法國貴族，法國大革命的倖存者。Parrot一心想成為藝術家從而改變僕人的命運。本書是作者的一個即席作品，來源於亞曆西斯.托克維爾（1805年7月29日—1859年4月16日）是法國的政治思想家和歷史學家。）的生活。本書講述了兩人生活在不同的環境，卻因為在美國的旅行而互相結識的故事。同時作者通過鮮明的人物對比，奇幻的探險經歷，為讀者刻畫了一個早期美國的場景。
故事裡的二位主角被作者描繪得栩栩如生，Olivier，是一位愛挑剔又道貌岸然的人，同時也是天生的憂鬱症患者，Parrot則是一位英國極端份子，除了閱讀美國革命之父湯姆斯．潘恩著作(Tom Paine)，他唾棄舊體制也熱愛藝術；Olivier到訪美國之初極度排斥這個新社會，然而，他卻愛上了一位調皮帥氣的美國女人，最終認同美國，Parrot在此找到了家，落地生根，同時也建立了一番自己的事業。作者雙線舖陳的故事情節，不僅提供小說家塑造小說中二位氣質獨特的主人翁，同時，也能提供讀者以轉換觀點閱讀本書的第三主角－美國，Olivier在粗魯美國人視為上流社會中社交梭巡，Parrot則是視賣藝花枊的低下階層為溫馨家園。(Vincent)
Awards/获奖情况：最新获奖信息：
入圍2010曼布克獎決選名單
The 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
’Man Booker Dozen’ announced
http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/thisyear/shortlist
The shortlist includes:
Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber) by Peter Carey
Room (Pan MacMillan - Picador) by Emma Donoghue
In a Strange Room (Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Books) by Damon Galgut
The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury) by Howard Jacobson
The Long Song (Headline Publishing Group - Headline Review) by Andrea Levy
C (Random House - Jonathan Cape) by Tom McCarthy
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 入圍2010曼布克獎參賽名單
Peter Carey，澳大利亞小說家，兩屆布克文學獎的得主, 三次Miles Franklin 獎的得主
- The Booker Prize
- The Miles Franklin Award
- The Age Book of the Year Award
- The Commonwealth Writers Prize
- New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award
- NBC Banjo Award
- FAW Barbara Ramsden Award
- Vance Palmer Prize for fiction
- Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Award
- South Australia Festival Award
- Ditmar Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel
- Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
之前的作品HIS ILLEGAL SELF授權高達15國: 澳大利亞，英國，美國，加拿大，巴西，中國，法國，德國，希臘，荷蘭，義大利，波蘭，羅馬尼亞，西班牙，葡萄牙。
目前版權已經授權：澳大利亞: Penguin Australia; 英國: Faber; 美國: Knopf; r加拿大 Random House
Review
Featuring well-developed and multifaceted characters, this book is rife with humorous details and turns of phrase, and the language is sophisticated. Written by a two-time Booker Prize winner, this engaging book will be particularly appreciated by readers interested in early 19th-century American history, the French aristocracy, and emerging democracy. ---Library Journal
The eminently talented Carey has the gift of engaging ventriloquism, and having already channeled the voices of Dickens’s Jack Maggs and the Australian folk hero/master thief Ned Kelly, he now inhabits Olivier-Jean-Baptist de Clarel de Barfleur, a fictionalized version of Alexis de Tocqueville. . . Richly atmospheric, this wonderful novel is picaresque and Dickensian, with humor and insight injected into an accurately rendered period of French and American history.---Publishers Weekly
About the Author/作者介绍： Peter Philip Carey (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist and short story writer. He is one of only two writers, the other being J. M. Coetzee, to have won the Booker Prize twice. In May 2008 he was also nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize. He has also won the Miles Franklin Award three times.
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