NOURISHMENT

Book ID/图书代码： 11701209B33125

English Summary/英文概要： With her children evacuated and her husband at the front, Tory Pace is grudgingly sharing the family home with her irascible mother; working at the local gelatine factory – to help the war effort – and generally doing just about as well as could be expected in difficult times. Her quiet life is thrown into turmoil, however, when her prisoner-of-war husband, Donald, makes an outrageous demand for sexual gratification. He wants a dirty letter, by return of post! Horrified, at first, that Donald is being turned into some sort of monster by the Nazis, Tory’s disgust gradually gives way to a sense of marital duty, and taking in the libraries, bookshops, public conveniences and barbers’ shops of South-East London, she begins a quest to master the language of carnal desire: a quest that takes a sudden and unexpected turn into far more dangerous territory.

When Donald returns home, damaged and deranged, at the end of the war, Tory has a few things to explain. But Donald has his own secret plans for their future, and the ensuing tangle of lies, misplaced loyalties and uneasy alliances has repercussions that extend deep into the austerity years that followed the Second World War.

Beginning with an act of unintentional cannibalism, and flirting with a scheme to end world hunger by the use of protein pills, Nourishment ranges widely across the Continent and yet always returns home: to family, to people, to relationships. Woodward offers a prescient examination of the ways in which we both nurture and consume each other in the face of adversity.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 多利•佩斯（Tory Pace）的丈夫和孩子已撤离前线，留下她不情愿地和她暴躁的母亲一起住。她在当地一家煤厂工作，为战争作后援物质保障，就如同艰难时世。多利平静的生活陷入了动荡，然而，她的战犯丈夫多纳德（Donald）还无理要求性满意。他要她即刻回复他一份下流的信件。起先，多利感到害怕，担忧丈夫因受纳粹侵害化作禽兽，她觉得厌恶作呕，然而最终这些屈服在婚姻的责任上，她开始游走于图书馆、书店、公共便捷服务以及伦敦东南的理发店，她的淫荡风格逐渐袒露在文字之上：急转直下，变得异常危险。
当多纳德战后受尽沧桑，精神不正地回到家中，多利有好多需解释的地方。然而，就他们的未来何去何从，多纳德有他自己的秘密算盘。接踵而至的谎言，寄托错误的忠诚以及不安的联盟影响波及深入第二次世界大战之后的禁欲之年。
始于同类相食的非刻意行为，通过蛋白质药丸的使用对抗世界饥荒，《美食总动员》（Nourishment）范围遍及欧洲大陆，然仍回归原始，飞入每个家庭、人类、关系。伍德沃德预知了我们在挫折面前汝养身心，挥霍彼此的方式。(XJJ)

Awards/获奖情况：此惊世新作的主人乃男性布克奖（the Man Booker Prize）和威特布瑞德奖（Whitbread Prize）提名作家

The stunning new novel from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize shortlisted author

About the Author/作者介绍： 杰拉德•伍德沃德（Gerard Woodward）是《八月》（August），获2001年威特布瑞德第一小说奖提名、《我要午睡》（I’ll Go to Bed at Noon），获2004年男性布克图书奖提名，和《好奇的地球》（A Curious Earth）备受追捧的三部曲的作者。他1961年出生于伦敦，在写小说之前出版了几部获奖诗集。他最新的诗集获得了2005年T.S.艾略特奖的提名。他是巴斯斯帕大学写作教授。

Gerard Woodward is the author of an acclaimed trilogy comprising: August (shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread First Novel Award), I’ll Go to Bed at Noon (shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize) and A Curious Earth. He was born in London in 1961, and published several prize-winning collections of poetry before turning to fiction. His latest collection of poetry, We Were Pedestrians was shortlisted for the 2005 T.S.Eliot Prize. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

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