THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 05380010B42224
English Summary/英文概要： ONE OF 15 TITLES SELECTED FOR BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PROGRAMTHE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN’S AUGUST BOOK CLUB PICK
Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has escaped the council estate where he was raised and now works in a care home for the elderly in Cambridge. His conversations with the home’s most ill-tempered but fascinating resident, former professor Dr Bram Paulsen, are the closest he comes to the academic life all around him.
But when he falls in love with Iris Bellwether, a beautiful and enigmatic student at King’s College, he is seduced into her world of scholarship and privilege, and soon becomes embroiled in the strange machinations of her brilliant but troubled brother Eden.
Eden is a gifted musician and polymath and believes that he is destined for greatness. He is convinced that he can heal people through music and Oscar finds himself involved in a series of disturbing experiments with Eden, Iris and their other friends that convince him that Eden himself needs help – but Oscar’s recognition of the danger that faces them all comes too late...
THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS has been shortlisted for the inaugural Dylan Thomas Prize ‘Sony Reader Award’ for best unpublished novel.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 優雅縹緲 神秘懸疑 一如莎拉‧華特絲(Sarah Waters)、唐娜‧塔特(Donna Tartt)如催眠般讓人如痴如醉，失去自我的愛情
充滿致命誘惑的財富
佔領腦海深處的音樂魔力
Oscar Lowe聰明、求知若渴但出身貧寒，好不容易逃離貧窮嘈雜的出生地，來到劍橋大學附近的老人安養院裡擔任伴護。雖然無法進入學術殿堂求學，但浸淫在充滿學術氣氛的鄉間空氣裡，對他而言也是實現了夢想。
Oscar的平靜生活卻被一段邂逅所打亂。從壯觀的劍橋國王學院(King’s College)禮拜堂流洩而出的管風琴聲深深吸引他，在此他邂逅美麗又如謎一般的醫學院學生Iris Bellwether，就此墜入愛河，終於得以一窺他非常嚮往卻不得其門而入的劍橋大學生活，也認識Iris的哥哥Eden。Eden就是當天在禮拜堂裡彈奏管風琴的樂手，擁有驚人的音樂天賦，他相信自己擁有運用音樂治療疾病的天賦，而身邊所有人卻也對此深信不疑。
隨著與Bellwether兄妹的往來越久，Oscar憧憬的大學夢就此急轉而下，大學生活頹靡瘋狂、黑暗糾葛的一面也漸漸揭開。當天才與瘋狂的界線模糊之際，Eden展開一連串駭人的實驗，一切都走向無法回頭的毀滅後果中，旁觀者Oscar雖然察覺，但似乎已太遲了…。
完美結合心理懸疑、情緒共鳴的故事，如魔咒般鎮住讀者，直到最後的結局…。(Eva)
Awards/获奖情况：shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book PrizeWaverton Good Read Award shortlists
shortlisted for the 2012 Costa First Novel Awards (柯斯達文學新作獎)
Shortlisted for the inaugural Sony Reader Award, part of the Dylan Thomas Prize (迪倫湯瑪士文學獎) 2011
Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2012
Rights sold: UK (Simon & Schuster), US (Viking), Canada (McClelland & Stewart), Israel (Penn Publishing House)
Review: http://www.thebookseller.com/profile/benjamin-wood.html
’A stunningly good debut novel … Wood writes with vigour, precision and intensity, with a story that will keep readers up all night’ -Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo
’The Bellwether Revivals renders the cruelties and frailties of genius with acuity and tenderness, exploring the naive sophistication of bright young minds, the moral immunity granted to coteries of privilege, and the true nature of mastery in art. Seductive, resonant, and disquieting, Benjamin Wood’s novel captures strains and cadences, qualities of music that are rarely rendered except in sound’ - Eleanor Catton, award-winning author of The Rehearsal
`Following a nursing home assistant in Cambridge it is "a powerful read that explores the conflicts that arise between logic, religion and blind faith"-according to The Bookseller’ Independent on Sunday
“From the moment young Oscar follows the organ music into King’s College chapel, I was ready to follow the talented Benjamin Wood anywhere. Wood writes beautifully about music, hypnotism, old people and the lush landscapes of Cambridge. And his intricate plot carries both Oscar and the reader to a place where the stakes, finally, are nothing less than life and death. In the tradition of The Secret History, The Bellwether Revivals explores the world of privileged youth to wonderful effect.” -Margot Livesey, author of the New York Times bestselling The Flight of Gemma Hardy
“Oh, how I loved this novel! I was drawn in from the very first sentence and pretty much didn’t put it down until I reached the last. This is the kind of story that makes you want to hole up under the covers—with a box of cookies and a mug of tea—and not come out until you’ve uncovered the mysteries at its heart. And those mysteries that stay with you long after you reluctantly emerge from bed. I find myself constantly thinking of Wood’s characters—wonderful, surprising Oscar Lowe and those beautiful, doomed Bellwethers. It reminded me, more than anything, of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, another novel that utterly consumed me, body and soul.”-Joanna Smith Rakoff, author of the New York Times bestselling A Fortunate Age
"In prose that’s unfussy but effortlessly vivid, filled with nice descriptive flourishes ... Wood’s confident, sometimes creepy debut novel draws you in – like the faintly heard strain from that hauntingly played pipe-organ – and then, once you’re inside, holds on, ever tightening its grip." -Daniel Hahn, Independent on Sunday
"A cogent and timely examination of the conflict between religion and scepticism." Barry Forshaw,Independent
About the Author/作者介绍： Benjamin Wood於1981年出生，在英國西北部長大。2004年時他獲得聯邦獎學金(Commonwealth Scholarship)補助，到加拿大英屬哥倫比亞大學(University of British Columbia, Canada)攻讀創意寫作藝術碩士。他曾在加拿大文學期刊(Canadian literary journal)以及PRISM international擔任小說編輯，任職期間為刊物贏得Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize的肯定。
Benjamin Wood的短篇小說曾刊登於國際期刊雜誌上，《The Bellwether Revivals》更打進多項文學獎項決選名單，Benjamin現任職於倫敦大學柏貝克學院(Birkbeck, University of London)擔任創意寫作講師。
Benjamin Wood was born in 1981 and grew up in northwest England. In 2004, he was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend the MFA Creative Writing programme at the University of British Columbia, Canada. During his tenure as fiction editor of Canadian literary journal, PRISM international, the publication was awarded the Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Benjamin’s short fiction has appeared in several international journals, and his novel The Bellwether Revivals is currently shortlisted for the inaugural Dylan Thomas Prize Sony Reader Award. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, where he teaches and develops undergraduate programmes.
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