SHANGHAI DANCING

Book ID/图书代码： 05139010B35517

English Summary/英文概要： Shanghai Dancing marks the U.S. debut of the major Australian literary figure, Brian Castro. A "fictional autobiography," Shanghai Dancing is a dazzling meditation on identity, language and disorientation by a writer who has been compared to W.G. Sebald. The book follows narrator Antonio Castro from Australia to his Hong Kong birthplace. The trip occasions an exploration of family myths and secrets that encompass Jewish, Portuguese, Chinese and English forebears and that extends from religious persecution in the Inquisition to the frenzied decadence that preceded Japan"s invasion of Shanghai to the 1999 handover of Hong Kong to contemporary Australia. One of Castro"s forefathers is burned at the stake; another smuggles the bones of Christian martyrs from Japan. His grandparents include a red-haired, green-eyed Jewess, a Chinese surgeon with a fetish for bound feet, and a Lilipudlian missionary. In Shanghai Dancing, Castro employs a sophisticated, sensual prose as well as maps, photographs, documents and letters to explore the evanescence of a shifting, polyglot world. Awarded some of Australia"s most prestigious literary prizes, the book has been called, "impressive as history, as fiction, as a book which stretches the literary form and which speaks to the universality of the human experience."

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 小说作者为曾屡获文学奖的布赖恩·卡斯特罗。该书为“自传类小说”，以1930年至1960年间作者一家在上海、香港和澳门的生活为背景展开。小说通过巧妙穿插的回忆、故事、照片、家族传说和秘密，生动地勾画出不同背景的各色人物，以及他们面对各自的不幸、灾病和在旧有生活面临毁灭威胁之时所表现出来的尊严、幽默和对风格的执著。本书荣获新南威尔士州及维多利亚州长奖小说类大奖。

Awards/获奖情况：Winner 2004 NSW Premier’s Award for Fiction and Book of the Year Award

Winner 2003 Vance Palmer Award for Fiction

‘a gorgeous meditation on the interaction of past and present’---Michael Sharkey, The Australian

‘one of the most intelligent and original of Australian writers is again brought to mind’---Peter Pierce, The Bulletin

‘Castro’s eighth novel and in many ways the summa of all his work’---Laurie Clancy, The Age

‘a marvellous mingling of fiction, memoir and travel writing…one of the best Australian books - or books from anywhere if it comes to that - I’ve read for a long time’---Andrew Riemer, Sydney Morning Herald

About the Author/作者介绍： Brian Castro was born in Hong Kong in 1950, and arrived in Australia in 1961. His novels include Birds of Passage (1983), which shared the Australian/Vogel Literary Award; Double-Wolf (1991), winner of the Age Fiction Prize and the Victorian Premier’s Award for Fiction; After China (1992), which also won the Victorian Premier’s Award; and Stepper (1997), for which he received the National Book Council Banjo Award. He currently resides in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne.

Format:HARDCOVER

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