WHITE HEAT
Book ID/图书代码： 11701209B33571
English Summary/英文概要： It’s dawn on the frozen sea beside Bylot Island, far north of the Arctic Circle. Three travellers and a dog team are hunting duck. Among them is expert Inuit hunter and guide, sassy ex-drunk, Edie Kiglatuk. The two men are southern tourists experiencing Arctic life in the raw while there’s still an Arctic left to experience.
When one of the men is shot dead in mysterious circumstances out on the sea ice, the local Council of Elders in the tiny northern settlement of Autisaq, dependent on the revenue from visiting hunters and naturalists, is keen to cover it up as a hunting accident.
Life returns to normal until two adventurers arrive seeking the remains of a legendary Victorian explorer. Hiring Edie and her beloved stepson Joe as guides the two parties set off in different directions. Four days later, Joe returns alone frostbitten, hypothermic and disoriented and things begin to take a darker turn. When Joe is found dead in an apparent suicide, Edie begins the hunt for explanations.
But not everyone wants the truth to come out. Missing white people are bad for business. Wary of outside influence the people of Autisaq shrug and say Ayaynuaq, it can’t be helped. Ayaynuaq. Let sleeping dogs lie. All her life Edie has been hearing that word but now she’s heard it once too often. Defying the growing mood against her, the accidental detective determines to discover what really happened to her beloved stepson.
WHITE HEAT is an environmental detective adventure story set in a vast world of ice and rock, a world of tracks and never-rotting bones, a world where there is everywhere but nowhere to hide. It’s a world of spirits and ancestors where stories never die and the snow both conceals and exposes the evidence of human misadventure.
But it’s a world that’s fast-changing too. As Russians, Americans, Canadians and Danes battle it out to secure mining and oil prospecting rights in the world’s last unclaimed territory, the Arctic Ocean seabed, the Arctic is fast becoming the scene of the new Cold War.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 充滿北極地神秘色彩的偵探驚悚小說 ！
如果你要找一本截然不同的偵探驚悚小說，就從這本開始！
故事發生在遙遠的不毛之地北極圈，三位冒險家與一群獵狗到最北方的貝洛特島Bylot Island獵殺鴨子，三人當中的嚮導是一位因紐特人族的女性獵人Edie Kiglatuk，另外兩位來自南方的探險家也是北極專家。當其中一名美國人突然遭受詭異的槍擊身亡，當地的鎮上長老們卻企圖隱瞞事情的真相，將此命案歸屬單純意外事件…
Edie回去之後也將此事淡忘，直到某天兩位旅人欲邀請Edie及他的繼子 Joe導再度回到小島上，探查維多利亞時代的探險者Sir John Franklin的傳奇故事…這次Edie與繼子分別往不同探查，但沒想到Joe是身受重傷的返回，而同行另一人卻已不見蹤影…傷心欲覺的Edie回想起多年的意外，發現當中有多處向相似及可疑之處，這背後究竟有何外力再控制這一切？是當地的族人不想受到侵擾？還是北極圈所蘊藏的天然資源讓這意外不斷的發生？(VL)
Awards/获奖情况：2009 Frankfurt Hot Title!
Rights sold:
UK: Macmillan; US: Viking; France: Presses de la Cite; Germany: Kindler; Israel: Kinneret-Zmora-Dvir; Italy: Rizzoli; Spain: Ediciones B.
Praise for THE LONG EXILE:
“McGrath has accomplished significant and riveting work in her investigation into the Canadian relocation of several Inuit families to Ellesmere Island in the 1950s. By focusing primarily on one family, she humanizes what has been called one of the worst human rights violations in Canadian history.”---Booklist, Starred Review
“This is a story of official wrong-headedness and arrogance and McGrath relays it with compassion...gripping.”---Guardian
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“Melanie McGrath is a gifted, passionate and sensitive story-teller...Fresh, illuminating and heartbreaking history.”---Sunday Telegraph
“Poignant and humane book...an impressively researched and often poetic story.”---Observer
“...lyrical and beautiful as the stark nature it describes...more than a fascinating and instructive read...a joyful one.”---Evening Standard
“...I defy anybody not to find her book one of the most seductive reads of the decade.”---Daily Telegraph
About the Author/作者介绍： Melanie McGrath is a broadcaster, journalist, and writer. She is the author of five previous books: MOTEL NIRVANA, which won the 1996 John Llewelyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday award for the Best New British and Commonwealth writer under 35, HARD SOFT AND WET, the bestselling memoir SILVERTOWN and its sequel HOPPING, and THE LONG EXILE: A True Story of Deception and Survival Amongst the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic.
Melanie McGrath身兼記者、廣播節目主持人及作家等身份。著有前作五本：MOTEL NIRVANA（大英國協35歲以下新銳作家得奬作品及「萊思紀念獎」John Llewellyn Rhys Prize）、HARD SOFT AND WET、暢銷回憶錄SILVERTOWN、HOPPING以及THE LONG EXILE。White Heat是他的首部小說創作。
Format:电子手稿
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