THE MISOGYNIST

Book ID/图书代码： 00200010B37491

English Summary/英文概要： Jomier broods. He broods about the present, He broods about the past. He types his gloomy thoughts onto his computer screen - a digital journal. When he has nothing more to say about the present, he returns to the past, copying entries from old notebooks onto his computer. Jomier has reached the age of retirement. His children have grown up. He lives alone in London, embittered and humiliated after his wife, Tilly, had an affair and left him for Max, an uninhibited international banker. Years later he still mourns the death of his marriage, often trying to pinpoint when, and why, it all went wrong. With little now left to fill his time other than formulaic middle-class dinner parties, Jomier seeks refuge in his journals, recalling those years when he had expectations and when he was still loved by his wife. Then Jomier falls for Judith and life starts to improve as, cautiously, they start an affair. But old habits die hard and patterns repeat themselves. It is only when Jomier’s daughter falls ill with a rare blood disorder that Jomier finally begins to reassess his feelings towards those he loves and his ability to forgive. Darkly humorous, ruthlessly satirical and at times surprisingly moving, "The Misogynist" is a perceptive exploration of the ways in which we can unintentionally let past disappointments affect our present, and how difficult it can be to move forward.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 乔摩尔时不时会陷于沉思，苍茫且飘渺。这个男人怏怏地思忖着自己的现在，还有那些过去。
此时的他，正颓然地注视着眼前的屏幕，指尖在键盘上无力地游走，眼前的日记俨然已成为了他倾诉郁郁的唯一工具。这就像是一道时间的大门，不是通往未来，而是连着过去。因为当现状每每令得乔摩尔身心俱疲、无言以对之时，他便会不由自主地想到逃避；他会去转而翻出那些陈年的日记，并将其一段段地录入到计算机之中，藉由这个过程，他一边重温着过去，一边麻醉着自己。
现今的乔摩尔已迈入了退休年龄，独居于伦敦的他目睹着自己孩子们相继地长大自立，这令得其甚为宽慰。不过迄今为止，只要一想到妻子蒂莉的出轨与不忠，乔摩尔仍然会显得是愠怒不已。他无法理解的是，为何自己的爱妻会选择抛弃他，同一个不修边幅的银行家一道远走高飞。
虽然时隔多年，但这场突如其来的婚姻变故却始终久久萦绕于乔摩尔心头，令其耿耿于怀。他总是会不停地追问自己，究竟是哪里出了问题？
眼下，除去一些乏善可陈的社交应酬之外，乔摩尔几乎找不到什么足以打法时间的方法，所以日记便逐渐成为了他追忆往昔的一种寄托：因为那里有着他和蒂莉一同度过的岁月，那时的他也曾对生活充满了期许。
直到朱迪思的出现，乔摩尔的生活才发生了转机。他渐渐被后者所吸引，两人遂即开始一段新的恋情。
但是这并不表示乔摩尔就此与过去彻底分道扬镳，相反地，这样的状况仍在继续着，它就像是一层无法抹去的阴霾，牢牢依附于他的世界上空，凝重而纠结。就在此时，女儿忽然不幸身染重病。面对着爱女的病痛以及感情的纠葛，焦头烂额的乔摩尔终于开始回过头来重新审视起自己的内心，并尝试去学会宽容和释怀。
本书讲述了一段黑色幽默式的故事，夹杂着辛讽，却又不时令人动容。它揭示出人性中纤弱的一面：愈是沉溺于昔殇的羁绊，人们便活的愈是挣扎；但若想真正与过去决绝，又是多么地举步维艰...(ANDY)

Awards/获奖情况：’Piers Paul Read is one of Britain’s most intelligent and disturbing writers’ New York Times Book Review ’Marvellously comic, superbly inventive ... one of the most arresting British novelists to have appeared in years’ The Times ’Undoubtedly one of the most talented novelists of his generation’ Francis King, Sunday Telegraph ’A storyteller of the first order, as refreshing as it is rare among the bedraggled ranks of contemporary novelists’ Joseph Pearce, author of The Quest for Shakespeare

About the Author/作者介绍： Piers Paul Read was born in Buckinghamshire and studied History at Cambridge University. His books include the novel Monk Dawson, for which he won a Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award, and A Married Man which was dramatised for television in 1984 with Anthony Hopkins in the title role. A work of non-fiction, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, documented the story of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 and was adapted into the 1993 film Alive. In 1988 he was awarded a James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel, A Season in the West. Piers Paul Read lives in London.

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