THE FOX IN THE ATTIC
Book ID/图书代码： 00970010B42105
English Summary/英文概要： Augusten is a young man from an aristocratic family, struggling to make sense of a world devastated by the Great War. The enemy abroad may have been defeated, but when he finds himself implicated in the death of a young girl, he becomes targeted as the enemy within. Fleeing Britain, Augusten seeks refuge and solace in the remote castle of Bavarian relatives; but what he finds is a hinterland of fierce lust and terrible darkness; a paradigm of the hunger and the hatred that promises to resuscitate a ruined Germany.
The Fox in the Attic is both a haunting tale of unrequited love, and a remarkable crystallisation of a singular moment in history. Recording the moment when Germany teetered on the brink of Nazism – the pause before the thunderous fall – Hughes’prose captures both the full weight of inevitability, and the full weight of first love.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一樁冤案，逼迫他逃離家鄉
但他的庇護所卻充斥狂暴動亂的硝煙味
唯一給予他慰藉的，是一段不可能實現的愛情… 英國文學經典作家理察‧休斯(Richard Hughes)
精準捕捉時代的氛圍
將歷史上一段倏忽即逝的瞬間，凝結成雋永的文學結晶
1923年，全球仍處於一次世界大戰中的餘悸中，舊的創傷尚未平復，新的衝突卻在慢慢滋長…。
英國貴族奧古斯丁(Augusten)努力在如此混亂的局勢下求生存，卻在此時無端被捲入一場兇殺案中，他只好逃到德國尋求庇護。但當時的德國局勢非常不安定，處處充滿了黑暗狂暴的慾望、飢渴與嗔恨，在如此壓迫的狀況下，唯一能給奧古斯丁慰藉的是一段純純的愛戀，但動亂時局以及身分並無法讓他們有完美的結局…。
本書將歷史上的瞬間凝結成永恆的文學結晶，Richard Hughes記錄下德國慕尼黑政變、納粹主義逐漸壯大的歷程，並鮮明刻劃這段時期的希特勒。在他的筆下，虛構人物與真實事件交錯，初戀的種種滋味與歷史中一段暴風雨前的寧靜時刻完整的烙印在作品當中。(Chris)
Awards/获奖情况：《狼廳》曼布克獎得主 希拉蕊‧曼特爾(Hilary Mantel)
英國著名小說家 安東尼‧伯吉斯(Anthony Burgess)
讚譽推薦！ Review
“Electrifying... Hughes has Tolstoy’s vision and an imaginative reach of his own, combined with an informed, analytical intelligence; the result is historical fiction of rare integrity and distinction.”---Hilary Mantel曼布克獎得主希拉蕊‧曼特爾，著有《狼廳》
“A masterpiece…exceptionally powerful!” – Anthony Burgess 英國著名小說家、劇作家、評論家和作曲家安東尼‧伯吉斯，著有《發條橘子》等書
“An impressive and unusual historical novel.” - Michael Holroyd英國知名傳記作家米契爾‧何洛伊德
“In scope and ambition challenges War and Peace... bears the hall-mark of a masterpiece.”---Financial Times《金融時報》
“One of the great books of our times”---New York Times《紐約時報》
“[A] magnificent, authoritative, compassionate, ironic, funny, and tragic book, in which emotional and intellectual developments in private persons are seen to be now parallel to, now conditioned by, economic and political actions.”---Times Literary Supplement《泰晤士報文學增刊》
About the Author/作者介绍： Richard Hughes (1900-1976) published his first novel, A High Wind in Jamaica, in 1926. It became a bestseller in England and America, won the Prix Femina in France and has since established itself as a modern classic. Hughes’s other books include The Fox in the Attic and The Wooden Shepherdess, the first two volumes of an unfinished trilogy, “The Human Predicament” about the rise of German Fascism and the onset of World War II.
理察‧休斯(Richard Hughes) (1900-1976)是英國小說家、劇作家及詩人，同時也是英國皇家文學會會員與美國藝術文學院的榮譽會員，並於1946年獲頒大英帝國勳章。 第一次世界大戰之時，他曾上戰場為國家服務。戰爭結束後他進入牛津大學就讀，並於學生時期大展文采，成為文壇新星。當時與他往來的有葉慈(W. B. Yeats)、T. E.勞倫斯(T. E. Lawrence)等文壇巨擘。他於1926年出版第一本小說《牙買加的風》(A High Wind in Jamaica)，此書一出即登上英美兩國的暢銷排行榜，獲得法國費米那文學獎(Prix Femina)，從此奠定他成為經典作家的地位，此書日後更獲選為20世紀百大英文小說之一。他的另外一部重要著作是關於德國法西斯主義與第二次世界大戰的未完結系列作品《The Human Predicament》。此系列只有前兩集，分別是第一集《The Fox in the Attic》與第二集《The Wooden Shepherdess》。他在完成此系列作品之前就溘然長逝。
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