THE ORPHANS OF RACE POINT
Book ID/图书代码： 06840010B42833
English Summary/英文概要： A passionate, heartrending saga with an unsolved murder that consumes three lives and keeps you turning the pages, THE ORPHANS OF RACE POINT is a novel of suspense, betrayal, and the different ways we find transcendence and meaning in our lives. Nineyearold Hallie Costa is growing up on Cape Cod in Provincetown, Massachusetts, when a crime shakes her close knit Portuguese community.
Codfish Silva, the captain of the town’s most prolific fishing boat has strangled his wife, leaving behind a solitary witness: his son, Gus. The traumatized boy remains mute until Hallie, the daughter of the local doctor, shows up with her version of a cure: two fish Gus must keep alive, and a copy of David Copperfield. Hallie returns every day to read aloud until Gus is finally coaxed back to speech.
Hallie and Gus fall in love at age sixteen. But when a friend makes an aggressive pass at Hallie on prom night, which ends in Hallie suffering a lifethreatening injury, Gus’s guilt leads to a choice that shocks all those who think they know him: He enters the seminary. Hallie is heartbroken and angry, but upon her recovery, she knows she must move on, and she follows her father into medicine.
Gus’s solitary life is disrupted when Ava Cilento appears at his rectory with injuries that are eerily similar to his mother’s. In an effort to save her family from his family’s fate, he becomes more personally involved than he should; and when Ava disappears, leaving a horrifically bloody crime scene, Gus is charged with murder. Fate brings Hallie and Gus together again: this time at Gus’s trial.
Though it is clear their passion for one another is still strong, it seems that fate has determined they are not meant to be together. Little do they know, however, that Ava’s daughter Mila may hold the key to the truth, and to Gus’s freedom.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一个激昂但悲伤的故事，一桩负载着三条人命的杀人案始终牵动着你的心。这是一部关于换衣、背叛和寻找生命升华的小说。
9岁的哈莉•科斯塔居住在马萨诸塞州普罗文斯顿的鳕鱼角，一桩凶杀案打破了这个葡萄牙语社区的平静生活。
鳕鱼•席尔瓦是这上最牛的渔船的船长，他掐死了他的妻子，但留下了一个目击证人：他的儿子古斯。受到精神打击的男孩一直保持沉默，知道哈莉的出现。哈莉是当地一个医生的女儿，她以独特的方式抚慰了古斯受伤的心灵：两条请古斯一定养育好的鱼和一本《大卫•科波菲尔》、哈莉每天都为古斯朗读这本书，最后古斯终于开口说话了。
哈莉和古斯在16岁的时候相爱了。但在一次舞会上，他们的一个朋友的激进行动让哈莉受到了几乎致命的伤害，内疚的古斯最后选择了所有人都没有想到的路：进入了神学院。伤心又愤怒的哈莉终于明白她必须继续自己的人生，于是跟随父亲学医。
古斯平静的生活被阿瓦•奇伦托的出现打破了。她带伤来到他的住所里，而且那伤口很像他的母亲的。他将自己对家庭的情感带入到帮助阿瓦的事情中，而当阿瓦消失后却留下了一个可怕的凶案现场。古斯被控谋杀。命运再次将古斯和哈莉联系到了一起。他们相逢在古斯的庭审会上。
虽然他们仍然爱着对方，但是注定他们是无法在一起的。他们并不知道阿瓦的女儿米拉手中握着打开真相之门的钥匙，这把钥匙也能然古斯通向自由之路。(兼职翻译-LN)
Awards/获奖情况：“Set against the rocky coast of Province town, Patry’s fierce, ravishing epic cuts deep to the bone about how love binds us together and breaks us apart, and how the past’s thumbprint rests on the present. Tender, violent, and alive, it’s also unforgettable.” --Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You“In THE ORPHANS OF RACE POINT, Patry Francis has poured a lifetime of wisdom into a thrilling, twisting plot, which holds up the human heart as a prism, turning it to show its many facets, its shadows and light. Each time you think you know where the story’s headed, Patry surprises. And just when you think you’ve plunged into the endless dark, she lets the light flood in. The story is at once intimate and far-reaching. This is a book that satisfies right down to the last perfect lines which raised the hair on my arms. Profound, liberating, and unforgettable!” --Susan Henderson, author of Up from the Blue
About the Author/作者介绍： 帕特里•弗朗西斯曾出版过小说《说谎者日记》。这部小说曾获选独立书商协会瞩目好书并在十个国家内均有销售。弗朗西斯的小说曾被超过五十家报刊杂志上，其中包括《安提阿评论》、《安大略湖评论》、《科罗拉多评论》和《坦帕评论》等。她曾两次获得小推车奖提名，并在2002年获得马萨诸塞州艺术委员会小说大奖。
Patry Francis is the author of THE LIAR’S DIARY, (Dutton 2007, Plume 2008). The novel received was chosen as a Booksense notable book and a Target pick and has sold in ten countries. Francis’s fiction has appeared in more than fifty journals, including The Antioch Review, The Ontario Review, The Colorado Review, and Tampa Review. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and in 2002 received the Massachusetts Arts Council Grant for Fiction.
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