BURLEY CROSS POSTBOX THEFT
Book ID/图书代码： 11701209B33129
English Summary/英文概要： Reading other people’s letters always provides a guilty pleasure.
There’s no such joy for two west Yorkshire policemen. They contemplate twenty-seven letters with the task of resolving a crime: the shocking attack, just before Christmas, on a post box in the village of Burley Cross.
Exhausted, Sergeant Laurence Everill gives up the task and hands the case over to PC Roger Topping.
Topping is submerged into examining the curtain-twitching lives of Jeremy Baverstock, Baxter Thorndyke, the Jonty Weiss-Quinns, Mrs Tirzana Parry, widow, and a splendid array of more weird, wonderful characters, inhabiting a world where everyone’s secrets are worn on their sleeves. Pettiness becomes epic, little is writ large.
From complaints about dog shit to horse-trodden turkeys, from Biblical amateur dramatics and a failing novelist’s fan mail, a chicken that turns out to be a duck and an Auction of Promises that goes staggeringly, horribly wrong a dozen times and more, Nicola Barker’s epistolary novel is one of immense comic range and her characteristic ambition but above all, of her shrewd humanity.
BURLEY CROSS POST BOX THEFT is, above all, about how we laugh at ourselves and fail to see he funny side.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 偷看人家的信件總是有一股愧疚的快感…
這兩個約克郡西區的員警卻從沒得到過這樣的快樂。他們正在辦案，死盯著伯利十字街（Burley Cross）一個信箱裡27封信。而那是一起恐怖襲擊！
勞倫斯·艾弗瑞爾（Laurence Everill）警官厭倦了這一切，於是放棄了這個案子，並將其移交給了羅傑·濤平（Roger Topping）警員。
濤平偷偷地調查傑瑞米·巴夫斯多克（Jeremy Baverstock）、巴克斯特·多恩戴克（Baxter Thorndyke）、喬迪·維斯·奎恩（Jonty Weiss-Quinns）一家、提紮納·帕瑞女士（Tirzana Parry）、寡婦以及一系列奇怪的人物(XJJ & VL)
Awards/获奖情况：版權已售：Russia: ST
Praise for previous novel, DARKMANS: "Barker is an extraordinary writer; we’re lucky to be alive at the same time as her."---Ali Smith ( Ali Smith：“前作DARKMANS的褒獎-巴克是一個了不起的作家，我們很幸運能和她同處一個時代。”)
“She is a serious writer, certainly, maybe even a ‘serious’ one, but it is difficult to think of another contemporary novelist who will so relentlessly pursue the truth and then punctuate it with a honking red nose, who will expose real pain and human complexity while at the same time squirting water in your eye”.---Guardian (Guardian：“她是一個嚴肅的作家，很難想像還有哪位當代作家能夠像她這般苦苦追尋真相，然後揭露真實痛苦和人性的複雜，同時讓人有感而淚。” )
About the Author/作者介绍： 尼古拉·巴克（Nicola Barker）當選了2003年度英國最佳青年作家（Granta Best Young British Writers）之一。著有7部長篇小說《相反的預報》（REVERSED FORECAST）、《小股份》（SMALL HOLDINGS）、《大開眼界》（WIDE OPEN）、《距離外部希望5英里》（FIVE MILES FROM OUTER HOPE）、《後面》（BEHINDLINGS）、《清晰》（CLEAR）、《黑人》（DARKMANS）和一部短篇小說集《愛你的敵人》（LOVE YOUR ENEMIES）。她的作品已被譯成18種語言。她目前住在倫敦。
Format:电子手稿
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