TROUBLES
Book ID/图书代码： 11701210B36805
English Summary/英文概要： 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is indeed still engaged to Angela Spencer, the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon’s leave three years ago, and whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough. But Angela is strangely altered and her family’s fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel’s hundreds of rooms are disintegrating on a grand scale; its few remaining guests; gently decaying old ladies thrive on rumours and games of whist; herds of cats have taken over the Imperial Bar and the upper stories; bamboo shoots threaten the foundations; and piglets frolic in the squash court. Meanwhile, the Major is captivated by the beautiful and bitter Sarah Devlin. As housekeeping disasters force him from room to room, outside the order of the British Empire also totters: there is unrest in the East, and in Ireland itself the struggle for independence and the mounting violence of "the troubles" is about to explode with brutal force
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1919年，在度过了第一次世界大战的阴霾之后，布兰登少校又一次踏上了爱尔兰的土地，虽然三年前立下的婚约实属仓促，但他仍一心希望能够再次见到未婚妻安吉拉并与其完婚。说起安吉拉，她的家族在当地可谓是名声显赫，他们旗下甚至还拥有一家堪称奢华的大酒店。
尽管过去年间两人彼此书信不断，但安吉拉对于布兰登而言却始终保持着若即若离的感觉。出乎预料的是，当他最终与对方见面之际，迎接少校的却是一副衰败的场景。
现如今，安吉拉家族的财力早已是江河日下，而婚约最终也沦为了一纸空文；就连那座象征性的酒店亦无法幸免，伴随着昔日光环的最终褪去，当年的纸醉金迷与繁华光耀早已成为了过眼云烟，唯剩下野猫们肆无忌惮地穿梭于残破不堪的楼阁之间。
不过，眼前的不适与破旧并未驱使少校转身离开，相反他却选选择在此处驻足，并度过了之后的一整个夏天。在那些破旧的客房之间，布兰登不断辗转留恋、追忆其往昔的奢华，但他所浑然不知的是，此刻外面的世界即将迎来一场腥风血雨。
因为1919年的爱尔兰，正准备为她的独立而战...(AW)
Awards/获奖情况：The Lost Booker Prize 2010
Review
’But if I had to pick one, it would be Troubles. It’s funny, sad and beautifully written; it’s prescient, wise, original and unexpectedly eccentric. Vote JG, I say. Or even better, just read him.’ ---Rachel Cooke OBSERVER
’Troubles has everything: great story, compelling characters, believable dialogue and big ideas. It’s a book good enough to win the Booker in any year. Not just 1970.’ ---John Crace GUARDIAN
’Like Fawlty Towers written by Evelyn Waugh’ --- Rachel Cooke Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, 2010
’I can’t praise this book enough. It’s a good rule that reviewers should be forbidden from using the word "genius"...But it’s hard to know what else to say when faced with a book like Troubles. There’s no avoiding it. JG Farrell was a genius.’ --- Sam Jordison GUARDIAN BOOKS BLOG
’No finer work has ever been written about this transitional period in Irish history: it remains a landmark in 20th-century Irish literature, and one that deserves to win The One And Only Great Retrospective Booker.’ --- Kevin Myers IRISH INDEPENDENT
About the Author/作者介绍： J G Farrell was born in Liverpool in January 1935. In 1956 he went to study at Brasenose College, Oxford; while there he contracted polio. He drew heavily on his experience for his second novel, THE LUNG (1965). He spent a good deal of his life abroad, including periods in France, America and the Far East. His novel, TROUBLES (1970), the first in the Empire Trilogy, won the Faber Memorial Prize in 1971 and was made in to a film for television in 1988. The second in the trilogy, THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR won the Booker Prize in 1973, and was followed by THE SINGAPORE GRIP (1978). In April 1979, he went to live in County Cork, where, only four months later, he was drowned in a fishing accident.
J.G.法瑞尔(J.G. FARRELL)1935年1月出生于英国利物浦。1956年他进入英国著名的牛津大学布雷齐诺斯学院深造学习，期间却不幸染上了脊髓灰质炎。不过，正是这段特殊的人生经历，为其今后的文学创作带来了巨大的影响，事实上法瑞尔于1965年所推出的第二部小说作品《肺》(THE LUNG)，便是取材于此。
作为其代表性的小说系列“帝国三部曲”的第一部，《烦事重重》(TROUBLES)一书为他于1971年赢得了「法伯尔纪念奖」(Faber Memorial Prize) 以及本年度的「失落的布克奖」(Lost Man Booker Prize)，而在上世纪八十年代，该书则被成功改编成电影作品而搬上了荧幕；三部曲中的第二部作品《包围克里希纳普》(The Siege of Krishnapur)，以1857年印第安反叛作为背景，更是赢得了1973年度的布克文学大奖(Booker Prize)；而紧随其后于1978年问世的系列第三部《新加坡风云》(THE SINGAPORE GRIP)同样深受读者的好评。
法瑞尔一生当中的绝大多数时间都漂泊于海外，他的足迹遍布法国、美国以及远东等地区。1979年四月间，法瑞尔移居至英国科克郡，不幸的是，四个月之后，他便在一次事故当中溺水身亡，享年44岁。
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