THE COLOUR

Book ID/图书代码： 12100004B06279

English Summary/英文概要： A sweeping saga of love and greed set during the mid-nineteenth century gold rush in New Zealand.
Joseph and Harriet Blackstone, along with Joseph’s mother Lilian, emigrate from England in search of new beginnings and prosperity in New Zealand. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in the creek, he guiltily hides the discovery from his wife and mother, and is seized by a rapturous obsession with the voluptuous riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new gold fields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of the “colour,” are violently rushing to their destinies.
Harriet bravely decides to pursue her own journey towards an uncertain future. But nothing has prepared her for what happens when she too arrives at the gold diggings. Amid squalor and confusion, burning heat and icy flood, Harriet Blackstone comes face to face with the true cost of desire.
Hauntingly evocative and, by turns, both moving and terrifying, The Colour is the story of a quest for the impossible, an attempt to mine the complexities of love and in the process discover what it is that makes men and women happy.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Newlyweds Joseph、Harriet Blackstone和Joseph的母親Lilian一同由英國移民至紐西蘭展開新的生活，卻受限遭遇艱苦的生活條件。而無意間Joseph發現了黃金卻居然不讓他的妻子和母親知曉，他毅然決然拋棄了家人，要到阿爾卑斯山掏金。
這些黃金的發現，是他意外的收穫也是厄運的開始。

Awards/获奖情况：‘Tremain is a magnificent, buttonholing storyteller with an enormous story to tell. Throughout a narrative that starts at a spanking pace and then gathers speed, her memorable characters move – striding forward or buffeted back, meeting or narrowly missing each other by whimsical fluke, growing, suffering, enduring. They are utterly credible, each absorbed in private dreams, all subject to the unpredictable and extreme violence of the volatile climate and terrain they inhabit’---Independent on Sunday

‘It’s an engrossing novel, an adventure story with a sensitive side. Since Tremain’s writing is celebrated for its richness, its sensuousness, it’s a relief to report that the comparatively muted colours of THE COLOUR are no obstacle to her readability. If anything, they allow it to shine even more brightly.’---Observer

‘It’s a fine story, both passionate and intellectually satisfying. Tremain shows us humiliation, shame and terrible despair. But we always have faith in Harriet, the former governess turned awesome horsewoman. In Harriet, who wants to harness the wilderness, rather than subdue it, Tremain gives us a cracking feminist heroine, and, eventually, hope.’---Evening Standard

‘[The] picture of a time and place where people are returned to their elements – a psychological as well as physical frontier – is the novel’s success. Tremain conveys this world without sanctions vividly…Brilliant.’---Guardian

‘This is a writer whose breadth of imagination and supple prose transcend the genre: she is one of the finest writers in English, historical or otherwise… In this novel, lust for “the colour” (as gold was called) is weighted and measured against human, sensual lust. It is emptier, of course, but just as rapacious. Gold “is as duplicitous as a girl. It shows itself and beckons. Within its first gleam lies the promise of more, much more…” Men are prepared to die for it.’---Telegraph

‘ It is a fabulous work, bravely imaginative, deeply moving, always surprising, invigorating and satisfying.’---Independent

‘Tremain gathers a good deal of rich material into her story, creating symbolic patterns from facts and incidents and striking ironies from incidental characters and their ideas. She paints vivid Dickensian pictures of gold-rush Christchurch and of passengers on board ship, and blocks dramatic scenes full of suspense… Above all, THE COLOUR makes one feel that the journey from Parton Magna to the Land of the Long White Cloud was worthwhile’---Sunday Times

About the Author/作者介绍： Rose Tremain’s books have won many prizes including the Whitbread Novel of the Year, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Prix Femina Etranger, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Angel Literary Award and the Sunday Express Book of the Year.
2008英國柑橘文學獎得主。Rose Tremain的作品獲獎無數，包含惠特比獎年度好書(Whitbread Novel of the Year)、布萊克紀念獎(James Tait Black Memorial Prize)、費米娜外國小說獎(the Prix Femina Etranger)、迪倫湯瑪士文學獎(the Dylan Thomas Prize)、《週日快報年度選書》(Sunday Express Book of the Year)等。

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