RED PLENTY
Book ID/图书代码： 04560010B38796
English Summary/英文概要： Once upon a time in the Soviet Union... Strange as it may seem, the grey, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairytale. It was built on the 20th-century magic called ‘the planned economy’, which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working.
Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan, and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. It’s about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending. It’s history, it’s fiction. It’s a comedy of ideas, and a novel about the cost of ideas.
By the award-winning (and famously unpredictable) author of The Child That Books Built and Backroom Boys, Red Plenty is as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant - and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 很久以前，在苏联。。。 正如看上去一样奇怪，灰色，压迫性的苏联建立在一个童话之上。正是在神奇的20世纪建立了所谓的“计划经济”，涌出了大量的好东西是资本主义的土地永远无法比拟的。而只是这一小会儿，在狂热的20世纪50年代末的里，魔术似乎起作用了。
《多样的红色》正是关于那一历史时期，何去何从，在赫鲁晓夫短暂的领导下，苏联期待着一个共产主义者富有而资本家嫉妒的未来，莫斯科将耀眼过曼哈顿，每辆拉达都会装上比比保时捷更好的引擎。本书是关于那些尽最大努力让梦想成为现实的科学家们，给寡头们一个圆满的结局。这是历史，是小说。这是想法汇集的喜剧，是一个故事——关于想法的代价。
由获奖图书《书籍打造的孩童》和《仓库男孩》的(著名的不可预测)作者创作，《多样的红色》如同人造卫星一样雄心勃勃，像俄罗斯国际航空公司乘务员一样不妥协——与你所期待的一杯苏联香槟完全不同。(兼职翻译-JDM)
Awards/获奖情况：虚构和历史的混合体，《多样的红色》重塑了那一时期的前苏联，当时赫鲁晓夫曾试图以取消现行政治制度和缓解冷战带来的敌对情绪。本书一点也不沉闷，斯普夫德甚至就一些不可能的话题，如前苏联的化纤生产、特殊机床工具和伏尔加汽车设计等向读者传达丰富的讯息。对计划经济下拘泥形式的生活的描述有着惊人的吸引力，是读者在阅读同时，随着书中真实或创造的人民英雄一起。作为滑稽、科技和致命的真诚的结合体，《多样的红色》可以列为描写前苏联最为怪异的图书之一。从开始到结束，这本书有着古怪的喜悦、引人入胜、令人愉快地不着边际，文字一流。”——伊恩•汤姆森，《金融时报》
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c3d8d908-a668-11df-8767-00144feabdc0.html
“虽然斯普夫德说他知道没有俄罗斯的话，几乎没有人能想到的最近的一本书，如此恰如其分地传达生活在苏联的点点滴滴。这是一个令人激动的书，所有对大国的热衷者都应该阅读。”——迈克尔•伯利，《星期日电讯报》
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7938708/Red-Plenty-by-Francis-Spufford-review.html
“弗朗西斯•斯普夫德奇迹般的新书...在阅读之前，我从不认为有人可以声称一部关于影子价格和一个中央计划经济下一般均衡模型和市场经济的作品会是如此扣人心弦。但这就是了，我本其中好几个章节所深深吸引。”——黛安科伊尔，enlightenedeconomics.com
http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/8/16/4605923
“弗朗西斯•斯普夫德的半小说/半历史的《多样的红色》是迄今为止我所读过的最好的关于苏联的乌托邦式的实验的作品——我读了不少。本书构思整齐、精彩呈现，是一本极具愉悦和启发性的书。文字大气完整而优美，人物刻画专业，内容可信度高，纯熟地组合了事实和虚拟。大量对30年代后期，到20世纪60年代后期苏联日常生活的研究呈现在这里。本书有血有肉地有机结合了各个分散、看似独立的章节：人物、地点和时间，集中于真实和虚构的人物刻画。厚积而薄发。”——亚当•罗伯茨，Strangehorizons.com
http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2010/08/red_plenty_by_f.shtml
本书已售往爱沙尼亚Tanapaev和俄罗斯AST/从利兹/凯特/2010年9月8日
版权售出：爱沙尼亚(Tanapaev)，俄罗斯(语料库)；荷兰(新阿姆斯特丹)，德国(罗沃尔特)，西班牙(特纳Libros)，土耳其(多明戈)
Rights sales for Red Plenty: Estonia (Tanapaev), Germany (Rowohlt), Holland (Nieuw Amsterdam), Italy (Bollati Boringhieri), Poland (Muza), Russia (Corpus), Spain (Turner), Turkey (Domingo). Published in the US by Graywolf Press.
About the Author/作者介绍： 弗朗西斯•斯普夫德，前《星期日泰晤士报》年度青年作家(1977年)，编辑过两本著名文学汇编和技术历史散文集。他的第一本书，《某时可能我会：冰和英文想象》1996年被授予作家协会最佳非小说类图书奖和毛姆奖，也启发了法兰克福芭蕾舞团的一部作品以及2001年在爱丁堡节上的小丑表演。他的第二本书，《书籍打造的孩童》被《新政治家》形容为“诙谐、引人入胜而优雅”。他的第三本书，《仓库里的孩子们》被《每日电讯报》称为“优美的书”，并入围安万特奖和塞缪尔约翰逊奖。弗朗西斯•斯普夫德目前住在剑桥。 Francis Spufford, a former Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (1977), has edited two acclaimed literary anthologies and a collection of essays on the history of technology. His first book, I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination, was awarded the Writers Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 1996 and a Somerset Maugham Award, and also inspired a Frankfurt Ballet production and a clown show at the Edinburgh Festival 2001. His second, The Child that Books Built, was described as ’witty, compelling and elegant’ by the New Statesman. His third, Backroom Boys, was called a ’beautifully written book’ by the Daily Telegraph and was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize and longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Francis Spufford lives in Cambridge.
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