THE GARDEN BOOK

Book ID/图书代码： 05139010B35518

English Summary/英文概要： Brian Castro’s new novel is set in the Dandenong Ranges in the years between the Depression and the Second World War.

The story revolves around Swan Hay, born Shuang He, daughter of a country schoolteacher, her marriage to the passionate and brutal Darcy Damon, and her love affair with the aviator and architect Jasper Zenlin. Fifty years after her disappearance, Norman Shih, a rare book librarian, pieces together Swan’s chaotic life from clues found in guest house libraries, antiquarian bookshops and her own elusive writings. But what exactly is his relationship to her?

The Garden Book is about loneliness, addiction, exploitation; it is about the precarious nature of Australian lives, when gripped by fear and racial prejudice. Yet underlying the story, and commanding it, there is the assured beat of Castro’s prose, evoking an ideal world beyond these fears, full of richness and power.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书为卡斯特罗的第六部小说。小说主人公斯旺1海生于双河，是一站和大萧条期间澳大利亚维多利亚州丹迪农牧区一个乡村教师的女儿。小说追溯了女主人公平生所遭遇的狂乱的婚姻和执著于在植物叶上写诗的非凡经历，记述了那个特殊时期的恐惧、种族歧视和隔离状态，以及中国澳洲移民成为作家的艰辛历程。本书获得澳大利亚昆士兰州州长奖小说类大奖。

Awards/获奖情况：Winner 2006 Queensland Premier’s Award for Fiction

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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