THIS GLITTERING WORLD: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 14780010B38704
English Summary/英文概要： T. Greenwood, acclaimed author of Two Rivers and The Hungry Season, crafts a moving, lyrical story of loss, atonement, and promises kept.
One November morning, Ben Bailey walks out of his Flagstaff, Arizona, home to retrieve the paper. Instead, he finds Ricky Begay, a young Navajo man, beaten and dying in the newly fallen snow.
Unable to forget the incident, especially once he meets Ricky’s sister, Shadi, Ben begins to question everything, from his job as a part-time history professor to his fiancée, Sara. When Ben first met Sara, he was mesmerized by her optimism and easy confidence. These days, their relationship only reinforces a loneliness that stretches back to his fractured childhood.
Ben decides to discover the truth about Ricky’s death, both for Shadi’s sake and in hopes of filling in the cracks in his own life. Yet the answers leave him torn—between responsibility and happiness, between his once-certain future and the choices that could liberate him from a delicate web of lies he has spun.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 十一月的一個早晨，Ben Bailey（本•貝利）走出了他的Flagstaff，亞利桑那州的家去取報紙。他發現了Ricky Begay（瑞奇•貝格），一個年輕的納瓦霍族人（美國最大的印地安部落），被打死在剛下雪的地上。對於這件事件他無法釋懷，尤其是當他遇見了瑞奇的妹妹，Shadi（沙迪），本開始懷疑一切，從他的歷史系教授工作到他與未婚妻Sara（薩拉）的關係。本決定查找瑞奇死因的真相，希望能填補他生活中缺失的部分。然而查找的真相讓他在愛與責任間徘徊，在他曾一度確信的將來徘徊，对他来说自由的选择是有代价的。“This Glittering World/這個閃亮的世界”是T.格林伍德粉絲們和評論家一直翹盼的小說 — 結合了她當今最具雄辯的才能和令人印象深刻的稟賦的聲望。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：在這部格林伍德最新的輕鬆小說（繼The Hungry Season/荒年歲月，之後）裡，作者描述了一個平凡人追求正義的目標。當Ben Bailey（本•貝利），歷史系教授的助手和一位對現實生活不滿的兼職酒保，倉促地和潑辣的Sara（薩拉）訂婚的一個小人物，發現一個年輕的，被打死致死的美國原著民躺在自家門前的草坪上，他被驅使著要去一探究竟。如果不是這個年輕人一度死亡或如果沒有被發覺，他是不會被捲入這場新的紛爭中。本不久與受害者的姐姐沙迪會面了，為了當時發生的事件而投入到這場調查中，而此時他也正在試圖取消婚約，未婚妻薩拉的懷孕，使得本左右為難，那是他心中原先的計畫和他想要的更富於冒險的調查。格林伍德的旗杆市，美國亞利桑那州，是一個令人信服的故事，比處於被動狀態下的本，因沙迪的痛失親友而感到悲傷更為讓人感到可信，雖然故事的情節在設置上有一些讓人感到詫異，本作為一個正在處事的男人，有些太過於優柔寡斷。
From Publishers WeeklyA lackluster guy finds purpose in the pursuit of justice in Greenwood’s slack latest (after The Hungry Season). When Ben Bailey, an adjunct history professor and part-time bartender mildly dissatisfied with his life and engagement to occasionally shrewish Sara, finds the badly beaten body of a young Native American on his lawn, he’s driven to find out what happened. His quest takes on a new dimension once the young man dies and his death goes all but unnoticed. Ben soon meets the victim’s sister, Shadi, and falls for her while they investigate her brother’s murder, but by the time he tries to call off his engagement, Sara is pregnant and Ben is torn between the life that’s being planned for him and the more adventurous one that he thinks he wants. Greenwood’s Flagstaff, Ariz., is a convincing one, more so than the forced premise of Ben’s sorrow binding him to Shadi, and while the plot manages a few surprises, Ben’s too passive for a man on a mission.
About the Author/作者介绍： T. Greenwood（T.格林伍德）是六部小說的作者。她曾被授予Sherwood Anderson Foundation （舍伍德 安德森基金會），（美國）全國藝術基金會的嘉獎，近期又受到馬里蘭國家藝術理事會的嘉獎。《Two Rivers/兩河平原》在去年的聖地牙哥圖書獎被譽為最佳通俗小說。她的另四部小說一直是BookSense （書商協會）76/獨立協會的首選；《THIS GLITTERING WORLD/這個明亮的世界》是2011年1月的選集，她的第七部小說《GRACE/格蕾絲》將在2012年四月出版發行。
她同時在加利福尼亞聖地牙哥分校的推廣計畫部和流行聲樂部教授創意寫作。她和丈夫，Patrick（派翠克），以及兩個女兒住在加州聖地牙哥。她還是個攝影愛好者。
你可以在她的個人網站上瞭解關於T. Greenwood（T.格林伍德）的更多資訊：http://www.tgreenwood.com 和她的個人博客：
http://www.mermama.blogspot.com & http://www.ephemerafiles.blogspot.com
T. Greenwood is the author of Breathing Water, Nearer Than the Sky, and Undressing the Moon, the latter two both Booksense 76 picks. She has received grants from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation and, most recently, the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches creative writing at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland. She lives with her husband and their two daughters in the D.C. area, where she is also an aspiring fine arts photographer.
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