SMOKE PORTRAIT
Book ID/图书代码： 00410310B41611
English Summary/英文概要： Set in 1936 in Belgium and Ceylon, Smoke Portrait traces the development of an unlikely friendship between a young Belgian teenager, Marten Kuypers, and Glen Phayre, an English woman in her twenties. Glen has left England to live with her aunt, who runs a tea plantation in Ceylon and fills her days with good works, among them the task of writing letters to a Belgian prisoner. But the letters go astray, and are received instead by Marten, eager to discover the wide world outside his small village, and desperately missing his older brother Krelis, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Marten decides to reply to Glen in the guise of the grown-up prisoner she is expecting to hear from, and as their correspondence evolves, they both assume identities that, while false in many respects, remain true to their own selves in other ways. Gradually they come to depend on each other, and their pen friendship proves to be crucial when events in their real lives take on a darker, more threatening significance in the shadow of the impending world war.
Chinese Summary/中文概要：
少年版《根西島文學與土豆皮餡餅俱樂部》
——戰時平民心靈的袒露最反映真相，體現人性
故事背景设于1936年的比利时和斯里兰卡，讲述的是一位比利时少年马丁•库伯斯（Marten Kuypers）和风华正茂的英国女人格雷恩•法尔（Glen Phayre）之间阴差阳错的友情。 格雷恩远赴斯里兰卡投奔拥有自己的茶叶种植园的姑姑，每天除了工作，就是给一位比利时囚徒写信。可是，因缘际会这些信到了马丁的手里。因为极度渴望了解外面的世界以及思念了无音讯的哥哥的心情，马丁决定假冒囚徒之名和格雷恩保持通信。一来二往，虽然彼此的身份是假，可是信中的交流不知不觉真情流露。他们互相依赖，尤其生活在世界大战的阴影下，他们对彼此的意义尤为重要。(Celia)
Awards/获奖情况：版权已售：The House of Books （荷兰） Here is the link to the news: http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1076057/trilby-kent-s-stones-for-my-father-awarded-td-canadian-children-s-literature-award
About the Author/作者介绍： Trilby Kent是2012年加拿大童書獎，已經出版了《Smoke Portrait》和兩本兒童書《Medina Hill》和《Stones for My Father》。Trilby在多倫多、邁阿密和倫敦都 生活過，在布魯塞爾工作過一年。她在牛津大學完成歷史系學習，在倫敦財經大學人類學院獲得了社會學碩士學位，隨後在Bonhams的古籍圖書部門工作，現在正在愛克賽特大學攻讀創意寫作博士學位。她目前住在倫敦。2010年，她入圍《衛報》國際新聞發展比賽決選。 Trilby Kent studied at Oxford and the LSE and worked for a time in the rare books department of a London auction house. She has written for the Canadian and British national press and in 2010 was shortlisted in the Guardian’s International Development Journalism Competition. She is the author of two novels for children and is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at Exeter University. She lives in London.
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