AMONG THE MISSING (UK TITLE: ACROSS THE BRIDGE)

Book ID/图书代码： 04300010B37684

English Summary/英文概要： ’’Whenever an accident or natural disaster occurs from which bodies may never be recovered, there is always somebody for whom it becomes a chance to disappear. There is always somebody who, believing that vanishing from one life is the way to enter a better one, will choose to be presumed among the missing; somebody who would rather be thought dead than have to say ’I’m leaving you’.

A pregnant woman, believed killed in a bridge accident in the Scottish Highlands, seizes her chance to disappear from her uncaring husband. Determined to safeguard her baby’s future and reinvent herself, she befriends illegal immigrant Silva, whose husband Stefan and daughter Anna, as she alone knows, have died in her place. As the bridge is rebuilt, the two women build a precarious existence in a makeshift home by the river. While Silva waits for Stefan and Anna’s return and the pregnant woman awaits the birth of her child, they are helped by the boatman, Ron, whose devotion to them masks his guilt for a past disaster for which he must atone.

Each of them having crossed some bridge in retreat from the world, each seeking an ever-elusive peace of mind and struggling with displacement and grief, together the three exiles conjure an unstable mix of trust and distrust, compounded by love and jealousy, both parental and sexual. With the discovery of Stefan’s and Anna’s bodies in the river, the tension in their uneasy triangle mounts inexorably and unbearably. With the birth of the new baby only days, then hours away, it finally breaks. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 每當有意外事故或自然災害發生而遇難者屍體下落不明時，對於一些人來說這總會是一個消失的好時機。有的人認為從一個人的世界中消失就會進入另外一個美好的世界，而有的人寧願被認為已經死去也不願去說“我要離開你”。

一位孕婦，被認為在蘇格蘭高地的一次橋樑事故中喪生，抓住這個機會從不關注自己的丈夫的生活中消失了。為了保護寶寶的未來和徹底改造自己，她像對待朋友一樣對待非法移民席爾瓦，只有席爾瓦自己知道，她的丈夫斯蒂芬和女兒安娜死在她自己的家裡。當橋樑重建的時候，兩位女人在河邊臨時搭建了住所，席爾瓦等待著丈夫和女兒的歸來，而孕婦等待著寶寶的誕生，她們在船夫羅恩的幫助下艱難度日，羅恩對她們全心全意的幫助卻是為了掩飾內心的自責，為自己曾經犯下的錯誤的贖罪。

他們都在尋找內心無法捕捉的平靜，並且尋找替代物來掩蓋心中的傷痛，以及三人之間不穩定的信任、猜忌還有複合…直到席爾瓦丈夫和女兒的屍體從河中發現，三人之間的緊張關係增長到了極限，當嬰兒誕生，他們最終走向了破裂…(CLAIRE)

Awards/获奖情况：“A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and the chances we miss, it’s a psychological dazzler. Truly, one of my favorite books of this year—or any year.”—Caroline Leavitt (New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You)

“Morag Joss is a writer who knows the old truth that genuine suspense comes not from car chases or gunplay, but from the clash of conflicting hearts. Her latest novel, Among the Missing, is evidence not of a rising talent, but of one already fully formed.”—Thomas H. Cook

“The harrowing collapse of a Scottish bridge links three lost souls as they lurch toward an even more horrifying finale….Joss builds the relationships among her sad trio slowly, through excruciatingly subtle modulations of tone. But the ending fully justifies every intimation of imminent doom.” —Kirkus

About the Author/作者介绍： MORAG JOSS，成長於蘇格蘭,首部作品Funeral Music即被Independent Mystery書商協會提名為年度最受歡迎小說,第四部作品一舉奪得2003年銀匕首獎的至高殊榮

MORAG JOSS grew up on the west coast of Scotland. She read English at St. Andrews University and then studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. Her first Sara Selkirk novel, Funeral Music, was nominated by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association for the Dilys Award for the year’s favorite mystery. Her fourth novel, Half Broken Things, won the 2003 CWA Silver Dagger Award. She lives in the country outside the city of Bath and in London.--This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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