INDELIBLE INK
Book ID/图书代码： 03541010B35692
English Summary/英文概要： Marie King is fifty-nine, recently divorced, and has lived a rather conventional life on Sydney’s affluent north shore. Now her three children have moved out, the family home is to be sold, and with it will go her beloved garden.
On a drunken whim, Marie gets a tattoo — an act that gives way to an unexpected friendship with her tattoo artist, Rhys. Before long, Rhys has introduced Marie to a side of the city that clashes with her staid north-shore milieu. Her children are mortified by their mother’s transformation, but have their own challenges to deal with: workplace politics; love affairs old and new; and, of course, the real-estate market.
Written with Fiona McGregor’s customary savage wit and keen eye, Indelible Ink uses one family as a microcosm for the changes operating in society at large. In its piercing examination of the way we live now, it is truly a novel for our times.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 瑪麗金，這個老年失婚的女人，從她跑去刺了人生中第一個刺青後... 五十九歲的瑪麗.金居住在雪梨北部的海濱，那是個怡人且富饒的地方，雖然老年失婚，但瑪麗卻一直享受著自己普通平凡的生活。
如今，三個孩子皆已離開了自己的身邊，瑪麗正準備賣掉房子，當然，連同其一並售出的，還有她那心愛的小花園。
一次偶然的機會，瑪麗靠著酒勁竟然跑去紋了身，也因此機緣巧合地結識了刺青師萊斯，而且兩人竟頗為投緣。很快地，在萊斯的引薦下，瑪麗開始逐漸接觸到雪梨另一邊的生活，而那裏的人文環境明顯與她久居的北海岸格格不入。
終於，瑪麗的改變引來了孩子們的注意，雖然憤憤不平，但顯然眼下的他們都各自麻煩纏身，職場加上情場上的不順，令得他們更是焦頭爛額、自顧不暇，而其中最為重要的一點，還要算是房子問題…
本書作者菲奧納.麥格雷憑藉其敏銳的觀察和犀利的筆鋒，通過一個普通的家庭故事展現了一個平凡家庭生活可能發生的巨大變化，進而看出當前社會正在經歷的改變，更讓瑪麗金注定將成為澳洲文學史上最讓讀者難忘的小說人物。(Andy & Kate Cheng)
Awards/获奖情况：瑪麗金，這個老年失婚的女人，從她跑去刺了人生中第一個刺青後，無疑將成為澳洲文學史上最讓讀者難以忘懷的小說人物…菲奧納.麥格雷果真是我們當代最棒的澳洲作家之ㄧ！---Christos Tsiolkas 2009英聯邦作家獎最佳圖書獎得主 REVIEWS
’For a long time now, when people ask me a favourite Australian author, invariably I think and say Fiona McGregor. There is a gutsiness, a splendour and command of language and expression in her writing that thrills me every time I read her. Indelible Ink is a stunning book, a novel that addresses our world and our time with an acute and ferocious acumen. There is also tenderness here and there is wisdom. Marie King, the grandmother who begins to understand living and courage with her first tattoo, is destined to become one of the great characters of Australian literature. This is a superb book by — undeniably now — one of our finest writers. Thanks for publishing this book. It’s f**king gold.’---Christos Tsiolkas 2009英聯邦作家獎最佳圖書獎得主
’Indelible Ink portrays the creative fluidity in living, even when life itself is ebbing away ... It is an exceptional novel: complex, confronting, richly imagined and beautifully wrought.’---Debra Adelaide澳洲知名女作家、圖書評論家、編輯和學者。曾獲雪梨大學博士學位，現任雪梨科技大學高級講師，人文及社會科學學院的副教授，教創意寫作課程
About the Author/作者介绍： 菲奧納.麥格雷 (Fiona McGregor)，曾憑"Au Pair"一書入圍澳洲國家文學獎 (Australian/Vogel Award)；"Suck My Toes"則為她贏得了斯特爾·拉特文學獎(Steele Rudd Award);另又以"Chemical Palace"入圍新南威爾斯總理文學獎(NSW Premier’s Award).
1997年，她被雪梨先驅晨報(Sydney Morning Herald)評為當代最佳年輕小說家之一。
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