SAVAGE LANDS

Book ID/图书代码： 00200010B35378

English Summary/英文概要： Louisiana, 1704, and France is clinging on to a swampy corner of the New World with only a few hundred men. Into this precarious situation arrive Elizabeth Savaret, one of a group of young women sent from Paris to provide wives for the colonists, and Auguste Guichard, the only ship’s boy to survive the crossing. Elizabeth brings with her a green-silk quilt and a volume of Montaigne’s essays; August brings nothing but an aptitude for botany and languages. Each has to build a life, Elizabeth among the feckless inhabitants of Mobile who wait for white flour to be sent from France; Auguste in the ’redskin’ village where he has been left as hostage and spy. Soon both fall for the bewitching charisma of infantryman Jean-Claude Babelon, Elizabeth as his wife, Auguste as his friend. But Babelon is a dangerous man to become involved with. Like so many who seek their fortunes in the colonies, he is out for himself, and has little regard for loyalty, love and trust. When his treachery forces Elizabeth and Auguste to start playing by his rules, the consequences are devastating. Rich in tactile detail, heart-wrenching in its portrayal of people clinging on to their humanity against the brutality of nature and commerce, this is historical fiction at its best. So absorbing is Clare Clark’s recreation of eighteenth-century Louisiana that the reader won’t want to leave it, even though the unstable ground on which New Orleans is putting down its first foundations proves far from hospitable.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《公爵夫人》原作作者艾曼達•福爾曼，歷史小說家希拉蕊•曼特爾和《紐約時報》書評讚譽克雷爾的作品“充滿神韻、聰穎通透，想像獨特。

1704年的路易斯安那州是法國在新世界的一片殖民地。當年那裡只有幾百人，一群女孩從巴黎來到路易斯安那州與那裡的法國人結婚。伊莉莎白就是其中一個。與她同去的還有一個男孩奧古斯特。伊莉莎白從法國來去了她的絲綢被子，而奧古斯汀帶去了他的植物學知識和語言天分。他們都只希望能在新地方好好生活。

伊莉莎白原本不指望能得到幸福的婚姻，沒想到她盡然愛上了新婚丈夫，外表迷人的士兵Jean-Claude Babelon。而奧古斯汀也成為了他的朋友。奧古斯汀這個絕不是表面那麼光彩。他只不過是在殖民地撈錢的貪婪之徒，從不講忠誠、愛和信用。等他背叛了伊莉莎白和奧古斯汀後，後兩者開始報復，這造成了災難性的結果。克雷爾精細的刻畫，感人動地，真實地展現人在殘酷的自然和商業面前如何捍衛自己的人格與人性。（Celia）

Awards/获奖情况：克拉爾豐富的歷史地理知識讓人物更加充實，飽滿，生動地描寫了他們糾纏不清的命運。 ——《書單》黛博拉•多諾萬

路易斯安那州中突入而來的成熟和腐朽映射了人物的內心世界，這是這本書立意的亮點。 ——《紐約時報》

Review
"Vivid with historical details, characters intense with drama. A story to lose yourself in,satisfying read for lovers of period fiction"--The Times
`... intricately plotted and thick with intrigue, Savage Lands gives us an insight into an overlooked era.’ -- TLS
"Clare Clark’s story and her history ring absolutely and very sadly true." --Guardian Review

About the Author/作者介绍： 克拉爾•克拉克出生於1967年，畢業於劍橋三一學院歷史系。現著書四本：《The Great Stink》, 《The Nature of Monsters》,《Savage Lands》和《Beautiful Lies》。其中《The Great Stink》和《Savage Lands》入圍橘子獎。《The Great Stink》贏得彭德爾頓•梅的新書獎和美國優質平裝書俱樂部新人獎。她的小說已被翻成5種文字。

Clare Clark is the author of two highly acclaimed historical novels: The Great Stink (longlisted for the Orange Prize) and The Nature of Monsters. Born in 1967, she graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with a double first in History, and now lives in London with her husband and two children.

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