BEREFT
Book ID/图书代码： 11980510B37720
English Summary/英文概要： The year is 1919 and the Great War has ended. Sergeant Quinn Walker--with a damaged body and soul from his wartime experiences--decides to return home to the small and desolate town of Flint, Australia, to set right the past. Ten years earlier, he had fled following the horrific rape and murder of his beloved younger sister Sarah--a crime that everyone, including his family, believed Quinn committed.
When he arrives on the outskirts of Flint, Quinn learns the town has not escaped the deadly flu epidemic sweeping the globe. And though he is in danger of being hanged if his identity is discovered, Quinn feels compelled to convince his mother (dying of the flu) of his innocence. As he hides out, working up the courage to confront the tragedy that shattered his life, Quinn meets a mysterious orphan girl, Sadie Fox, whose powers verge on magical and who seems to know more about the evil that lives in Flint than any child should.
In gorgeously spare, poetic language, Bereft tells a powerful story about love and loss in a world ravaged by war and disease.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 從戰場歷劫歸鄉的昆恩沃克，十年前被控犯下一樁慘無人道的謀殺案，受害者正是親妹妹莎拉。昆恩因此被迫離開故鄉，投入戰場。如今他好不容易平安返鄉，儘管知道鎮上很多人處心積慮想用私刑把他處死，甚至自己的父親和舅舅也恨他入骨，但昆恩還是不顧一切，執意要向大家說明殺害妹妹的真兇另有其人，但沒有人願意相信他...
為了揭開真相，獨自追查線索但走在鎮上到哪裡都處處碰壁，昆恩只能在小鎮邊緣的荒野，窺伺家人和鎮上各種活動。回到家鄉，這才發現他的母親已經病危，然而昆恩卻沒有勇氣告訴母親，殺死妹妹的真兇到底是誰。無法訴說真相，昆恩心中備受折磨，但一位神秘女孩莎蒂福斯的出現，使所有問題有所轉折。
對昆恩來說莎蒂是一位謎樣女孩，但她似乎知道昆恩的所有祕密，甚至當年他妹妹慘案的各種細節...在真相逐漸明朗之際，昆恩該如何讓所有人知道整件懸案的謎團兇手究竟是誰? 他該如何為自己辯護...?
Awards/获奖情况：入圍英國犯罪小說作家協會（CWA）金匕首獎shortlistThe shortlist for the UK Dagger Awards was announced yesterday and BEREFT is one of the four selected titles. More info can be found here: http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/2012/gold.html
本書由榮獲澳洲奈德‧凱利獎得主Chris Womersley的新作《BEREFT》，英國版本由Quercus 出版社出版
入圍英國犯罪小說協會金匕首獎，英國水石書店年度選書之一，在法國也創下銷售佳績。
http://www.thecwa.co.uk/index.php
http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/pages/waterstones-book-club/2403/
http://www.albin-michel.fr/Les-Affliges-EAN=9782226241467
2011 澳洲書業獎小說年度選書
媲美戈馬克．麥卡錫和威廉福克納的澳洲作家
-Chris Womersley-
版權已售:
German to DVA, an imprint of Random House
Croatian rights to Fraktura
UK to Quercus
US to SilverOak
France to Albin Michel
Turkish to Aspendos Yayincilik.
“《空虚》是一部关于战争、家族秘密和寻求正义的黑暗血腥故事。克里斯•沃默斯利知道如何让阳光照进澳大利亚农村最黑暗的角落。”——迈克尔•罗伯萨曼
《空虚》是一个美丽的小说，透视了痛苦的心灵深处，超越人类互相造成的痛苦直到一个充满尊严、忠诚甚至饱含情感的地方。克里斯•沃默斯利用如此引人入胜的力量创作，让我欲罢不能。”——戴比拉•阿德莱德
“充满爱、失去、冲突和拯救的故事，扣人心弦。。。。。。很少有书能像这样让我产生立即再读一遍的冲动。”——澳大利亚书商及出版商(4.5星)(兼职翻译-JDM)
1.won the 2011 Indie Award for Best Fiction。 （The Indie Awards recognize the best Australian writing of 2010 as chosen by Australian independent booksellers. ）
2.longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award （‘The Miles Franklin Literary Award is Australia’s oldest and most prestigious literary prize in its category. It is awarded to the novel of the year which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases.’ The shortlist will be announced on 19 April and the winner in June.）
About the Author/作者介绍： Chris Womersley is a writer of considerable power whose first book, The Low Road, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Fiction. Before its publication, the manuscript was shortlisted for Victorian Premiers’ Award for Unpublished Manuscript. His second novel, Bereft, won the Indie Award for best Australian novel and Book of the Year from the ABIA. It was also the runner-up for the prestigious Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the ASL Gold Medal for Literature, the Ned Kelly Award for Fiction, and the Age Book of the Year award. Australian native Womersley is a print and radio journalist and lives in Sydney.
Chris Womersley是澳洲得獎作家，著有The Low Road，以及無數短篇故事、書評和論文。近期榮獲澳洲獨立書商小說獎 (Australian India Award for Fiction 2011，和許多富有盛名的澳洲作家並駕齊驅，包括 Kim Scott，Roger McDonald 及 Fiona McGregor。
Format:TRADE PAPERBACK
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