WHITE MAN FALLING
Book ID/图书代码： 00410310B41620
English Summary/英文概要： White Man Falling is a tale of domestic catastrophe, accidental crime-busting, deluded match-making and mystical absurdity set in a small town in South India. Police sub-inspector Swami has lost his job after suffering a stroke while beating up a Very Guilty Suspect. He can no longer talk properly, command the respect of his community, or give his six daughters the bankrupting dowries they deserve and his wife is obsessed with securing the Most Expensive Husbands in India. No wonder Swami has lost his pride and wants to kill himself using only a puncture repair kit. Surely a man in these circumstances has good reason to feel cursed when a white man falls out of the sky and lands on him in a busy street, dying in front of his eyes and making him a laughing stock. But as further strange incidents occur, Swami’s hometown starts to believe he is walking with God, and life becomes easier... Mike Stocks’s comic tour de force brilliantly exemplifies how sometimes in life meaningless events can produce meaningful effects.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一场发生在国内的灾难，充满了神秘与怪诞，地点位于南印度一个小镇。斯瓦米（Swami）探长因中风失去了工作，也痛失了将嫌犯绳之以法的机会。他无法像正常人那样说话，无法得到同僚们的平等对待，无法替女儿们备嫁妆，无法维持妻子的爱。斯瓦米失去了一切，包括他的尊严，所以他想死并不稀奇。
当然，无论是谁，大街上遇到一个白人从天而降暴毙于前，任谁都会相信这是个不好的现象。奇怪的事接二连三发生。斯瓦米家乡的人开始相信他过着正直道德的生活，生活开始变得容易…
它告诉我们有时候生活中无意义的事件也可能会产生有意义的影响。(兼职翻译-XJJ)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 麦克•斯多克斯（Mike Stocks），生于兰开夏郡，念伯明翰大学，目前居于爱丁堡。他写长篇小说、儿童故事、诗歌、翻译，还是词典编纂者及多家英国出版社编辑。他自行创诗歌杂志。这是他的第一部文学小说，于2006年9月出版，而他翻译的罗马诗歌将于07年春出版。 Mike Stocks was born in Lancashire and educated at Birmingham University, and currently lives in Edinburgh. He writes novels, children’s books, poetry and translations, and has worked both as a lexicographer and as an editor for several British publishers. He is the founder and editor of Anon, the anonymous submissions poetry magazine. His debut literary novel, White Man Falling, will be published by Alma Books in September 2006, and his translations of Roman poet Belli by Oneworld Classics in Spring 2007.
Format:电子手稿
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