PAINTER OF SILENCE
Book ID/图书代码： 02000010B43433
English Summary/英文概要： The setting is Romania both before and after the Second World War. Georgina imaginatively conjures up a country ravaged by fighting and political struggle through the post-war lives of two characters born six months apart, Safta a privileged daughter of a land owner and Augustin, the son of a cook at the manor house where they both grow up. Their paths cross when Safta, now a nurse, hears about an injured soldier, a deaf mute. Safta realises that this must be Augustin and sets out to remove him from his current predicament. As they piece together their lives Augustin tells Safta the story of what happened at the manor house after she left the only way he is able to, through a series of beautifully detailed drawings. The house of their childhood is central to the lives of both characters and draws them back. Georgina conjures up brilliantly the fall of the house to the boarded up and derelict property of the state as it now stands. It is a very tender novel about the human cost of war, a different kind of love story. Although incredibly moving it is ultimately uplifting.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事的背景是二战前后的罗马尼亚。乔吉娜非常有想象力地通过两个战争后相差六个月大的人物来描写一个国家被战争和政治斗争所蹂躏的故事。赛弗塔是庄园主的掌上明珠，奥古斯丁，是庄园里厨师的儿子，他们两人都在庄园里长大。赛弗塔后来成了一名护士，她听说了一名受伤士兵的故事，听说那名士兵听不到声音。赛弗塔马上意识到那可能是奥古斯丁，所以就将他从困境中解救出来。奥古斯丁告诉赛弗塔，在她离开以后，他只有通过作画来表达对赛弗塔的思念。那座庄园是他们俩生命的中心，并且不断召唤他们回家。乔吉娜非常聪明地描写了一座原本私有却被征为国有的房子里故事。这是一部柔美的小说，讲述了人类因为战争而付出的代价，与一般的爱情小说不同。但是确实非常的感人至深。(兼职翻译-LN)
Awards/获奖情况：Rights have sold to the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy and Norway. shortlisted for the Orange Prize—the judges praised it as a ‘deceptively quiet book, which grows in effect and strength as it goes on, portraying a deep understanding of unconventional ways of self-expression, and of relationships. The writing is beautiful.”
About the Author/作者介绍： 乔吉娜•哈丁，出版过《The Solitude of Thomas Cave》和另两部非小说作品《Tranquebar》和《In Another Europe》。她居住在伦敦和埃塞克斯的斯陶尔山谷。 Georgina Harding is the author of the novel The Solitude of Thomas Cave and two works of non-fiction: Tranquebar and In Another Europe. She lives in London and the Stour Valley, Essex.
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