THE SHIELING
Book ID/图书代码： 03240310B42975
English Summary/英文概要： Driven to abscond from the pressures of everyday life, the characters in this collection turn to strange ideas, distant places, and private languages in search of escape. At times the characters appear absurd, like the vicar who strikes up a conversation with the devil, and at other times they seem unreachably lonely, like the man drowned in the black waters of the Irwell, but each is presented with such compassion that it is impossible not to completely enter these peculiar fates. Through the stunning use of imagery and landscape and the descent through the strata of different lives, readers are offered an arms-length view of the forces of hope and redemption at work amidst desolate survival tactics of ordinary life.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： David Constantine 非凡的第三部故事集中的人物没有强烈的欲望，他们因无法忍受正常生活中的压力而避世，萌生出一种奇怪的想法，政治理由，甚至是自已独有的一种语言。用局外人的角度来看，这些人有时显得荒诞可笑 — 如同教区牧师的妻子离他而去时，这位牧师开始与魔鬼交谈一般 — 时而是一场悲剧 — 像一幅从艾尔韦尔河里捞起的一名自杀者的景象。这便是Constantine的怜悯之心，然而，我们也无法自拔地同故事中的每一个人物一样深入至荒山野岭。而随着我们进一步地深入，透过每个人的历史层面，不断变化的风景也顿时涌向他们，更为惊人的发现，在最后一层，永恒的救赎之光正在那里等候。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：來自2010英國BBC國家短篇小說獎，和2009年入圍弗蘭克•奧康納獎短篇小說類非美籍作者。“如果浪漫的存在主義可能存在的話，David Constantine是...不過請主意：這種理解力只有Constantine才能去很好地去詮釋，超越了其他種類的當代小說的一些脆弱而空洞的感覺。”
—— 《英國衛報》
By the winner of the 2010 BBC National Short Story Award, and the only non-US author shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O’Connor Prize for Short Fiction.
‘If it’s possible to be a romantic existentialist, David Constantine is... But beware: this understanding, and Constantine’s way with it, can leave some other kinds of contemporary fiction feeling brittle and empty.’ – The Guardian
About the Author/作者介绍： David Constantine（大衛康斯坦丁）是一位獲獎詩人和譯者。他的是個選集包括《Madder/狂歡》，《Watching for Dolphins/看海豚》，《Caspar Hauser/卡斯帕爾•豪澤爾》，《The Pelt of Wasps/捅馬蜂窩》，《Something for the Ghosts/一些鬼魂》（入圍惠特布萊德詩歌獎），詩歌集和最近的一部新作《Nine Fathom Deep/九英尋深》。他是德林，布萊希特，歌德，克萊斯特，米肖和雅科泰特作品的譯者。2003年他翻譯了德國作家安森柏格的《Lighter than Air/薄如空氣》，獲得了歐洲詩歌翻譯Corneliu M Popescu獎。他還是小說《Davies/大衛斯》，《Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton/星火燎原》的作者。他的第三部短篇小說集《The Shieling/茅屋》，以及後來的回歸作品《Spike》和備受讚譽的《Under the Dam/大壩之下》。他與妻子Helen（海倫）住在牛津，在那裡他可以潛心在翻譯中編輯現代詩歌。David Constantine is an award-winning poet and a translator. He is the author of Caspar Hauser, Madder, Nine Fathom Deep, The Pelt of Wasps, Something for the Ghosts, and Watching for Dolphins, and an editor for Modern Poetry in Translation.
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