OUR FATHER WHO WASN’T THERE
Book ID/图书代码： 11980510B34310
English Summary/英文概要： Can a memoir begin without memories? Can a father be invented? When David Carlin was only six months old, his father, Brian, died. It was the 1960s in isolated Western Australia, a place in which emotions were discreetly veiled, women did not attend funerals — and suicide was a sin. Brian became a mysteriously absent figure in David’s family story, hardly spoken of again.
As an adult, David yearns to conjure up his father, to uncover what led to his death at his own hand. Gradually, he begins to piece together Brian’s story from the faltering memories of friends and relatives, and from the voices and incidents that emerge from Brian’s medical records. Into the inevitable gaps that remain, David cannot help but stray with his own imaginings.
Through David, Brian’s story starts to fill out — up rise the hessian walls of his childhood house on the edge of the wheat belt during the Depression, the outposts of heady undergraduate bohemia in late-1940s Perth, and Brian’s happily married life with a brilliant and loving young wife, and an equally brilliant career. But, in among it all, there also rises a darkness — a damaging undertow of electric-shock therapy, insulin comas, and whispered wartime events.
In this masterfully rendered memoir, David moves like a ghost through time and place, deftly weaving a story from what he has always known, and from all that he will never know.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一段回忆可以在没有记忆的情况下开始吗？父亲是可以被虚构的吗？当大卫·卡琳只有六个月大时，他的父亲布莱恩便过世了。二十世纪六十年代的西澳大利亚州，是一个封闭的地方，在那里，所有的情感都必须掩藏在面纱后面，女性不可以参加任何葬礼，自杀则被定义为一种罪孽。于是布莱恩在大卫的家庭记忆中变成了一个迷，甚至于没有人会再提起他。
成年后，大卫渴望可以想象出自己的父亲，揭开他当年自杀的原因。渐渐的，他从朋友和亲戚散乱的回忆，以及布莱恩的医疗记录中拼凑出了父亲的故事，而当这些回忆出现断层时，大卫便陷入了自己无止境的想象中去。
于是布莱恩的故事慢慢的显露出来，从大萧条时期在小麦种植区的童年，到二十世纪四十年代晚期的大学时代，再到和新婚妻子幸福的生活以及出色的事业。但是，在这一切美好的景象中，阴郁也在慢慢滋长…
在这本极具渲染色彩的回忆录中，大卫如幽灵般跨越时空，将那些他早已熟知，和那些他从不曾听过的故事集合为一体…(ZH)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 大卫·卡琳，在皇家墨尔本理工大学教授媒体制作和写作，他的作品包括Frankenstein’s Children，并指导制作过电影短片和纪录片，包括Out of Our Minds。他的作品曾在澳洲以及世界其他各地上映过。他还执导过澳洲许多新的戏剧，包括欧兹马戏团。
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