THE LAND OF DECORATION

Book ID/图书代码： 00200010B43918

English Summary/英文概要： The Land of Decoration tells the story of a ten year old girl raised by her father, who belongs to a small religious movement in a typical industrial town. Horribly bullied at school as a misfit, the heroine, Judith, creates a model world in her room made from things nobody else wanted: little people made from pipe cleaners and stuck together; a zebra crossing made out of a supermarket bar code, a hair slide that was once a used staple. One day she creates a snow storm in her tiny world and then it snows outside. Judith believes that she can make miracles, but each miracle only seems to make things worse.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 奇蹟常在每一個人的身邊顯現，但多數的人都選擇視而不見!!
十歲的茱迪絲從小失去母親，一直以來與父親相依為命，過著比一般小孩更為辛苦的日子。被父親帶大的她性格非常地與眾不同，兩人就這樣生活在寧靜且信仰虔誠的小鎮。
天真有主見的茱迪絲，在學校裡卻無法融入集體環境，經常被同年齡的小男生欺負，但只要在自己的房間裡，她總是會重拾自信，因為她相信自己親手設計的房間有著奇幻的魔力。
茱迪絲在房間裡，利用別人不要的器材，創造出了一個栩栩如生的『模型世界』，她把管子黏在一起做成小人，用超市條碼做成人行道，舊的訂書針做成小髮夾，還有更多她獨特的發明，使得房間裡每樣小東西都和真的一樣….有一天她竟然在自己的小屋裡，創造出了一場白茫茫的大雪，而令她驚奇的是屋外竟也飄起了雪花。茱迪絲開始相信她能夠創造奇蹟，但每一個奇蹟似乎只把所有事情搞得更糟糕……(Claire & Chris)

Awards/获奖情况：THE LAND OF DECORATION has been awarded the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction! Grace beat off stiff competition from Patrick McGuiness and Rachel Joyce to be crowned the winner!

英國文壇新銳作家即將締造文壇奇蹟
查特與溫達斯（Chatto & Windus）出版社破天荒在審稿48小時就立即簽下版權
2012春季出版-版權已售11國
被譽為媲美愛瑪．唐納修《房間》及馬克．海登《深夜小狗神秘習題》的故事寫手

版權已售:
Contact in Holland
DVA in Germany
Laffont in France
Einaudi in Italy
Salamandra in Spain
Gyldendal Norsk in Norway
Nova Fronteira in Brazil
Gyldendal in Denmark
Kinneret in Israel
Otava in Finland
Forum in Sweden

THE LAND OF DECORATION was picked out as one of the top four fiction books of 2012 by the Literary Editor of The Sunday Times

Reviews
Clara Farmer, Editorial Director, Chatto & Windus says: ‘The Land of Decoration is one of those novels: the as-rare-as-hen’s-teeth debut that arrives fully formed, and is blissfully inventive, brilliantly written, with a huge heart, and a tense, pulsing plot -- and which through the eyes of its ten-year-old heroine, Judith, changes the way we see the world. It’s also a devastatingly real portrait of a father, locked in by grief, who has yet to show his daughter that he loves her. It’s a book to revel in, and adore, and cry over copiously (as my tear-streaked colleagues can testify). But more than that, this is a novel that makes you want to rush out into the street, pin passers-by to the ground, and insist that they read it. Grace McCleen’s voice is as exciting and explosive as Jeanette Winterson’s in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Everyone at Chatto is turning cartwheels at the news that we will be publishing her.

Stephen Rubin, President and Publisher of Holt says: ‘There is a wonderful legacy of books narrated by singular young people—Room and The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime come immediately to mind—and The Land of Decoration is very much in this grand tradition. But Judith, the narrator, is not like anybody I have ever encountered. Your heart goes out to her because everything she does is fueled by faith, yet she is both naive and precocious. Her voice is thrillingly original and affecting.’

“The Land of Decoration is a novel that can move the reader from sadness to laughter with alarming suddenness. Grace McCleen’s voice sparkles with imagery and ideas, and she uses it to tell a story that is simultaneously multi-layered and absolutely compelling”- Sam Llewellyn, Chair of Desmond Elliott Judges

“The Land of Decoration is a novel that can move the reader from sadness to laughter with alarming suddenness. Grace McCleen’s voice sparkles with imagery and ideas, and she uses it to tell a story that is simultaneously multi-layered and absolutely compelling”

About the Author/作者介绍： Grace McCleen was raised in a fundamentalist religion herself, and didn’t have much contact with the outside world as a child. She says: ‘My parents were eccentric so we didn’t have much contact with other believers. We lived in an industrial town until I was ten then moved to Ireland where I was taken out of school. In the country I began to ask questions about how we knew things, about faith and reality, about what was natural, about sin and redemption. When we came back to Britain my English teacher suggested I apply to Oxford. Association with unbelievers was viewed as dangerous and further education even more so, so it was the biggest (but best) decision of my life.’
Within days have now sold US rights to Stephen Rubin and Sarah Bowlin at Holt, to Iris Tupholme at Harper Collins in Canada, to Mizzi van der Pluijm at Contact in Holland: Maggie Doyle at Laffont in France; Sigrid Kraus at Salamandra in Spain; Andrea Canobbio at Einaudi in Italy and to Marion Kohler at DVA in Germany.
作者格蕾絲從小就是一個信奉正派基督教的人，孩提時代的她與外界並沒有過多的接觸。父母行為古怪，即使與別的信奉者，他們也沒有過多聯繫。格蕾絲十歲時到愛爾蘭，開始上學。之後回到英國，她的英語老師建議她申請牛津大學，但是這意味著格蕾絲將會與非教派的人有接觸，這被認為是一個無比危險的事情，因此這對當時的她來說是一個重大的決定。
格蕾絲認為一個新人的作品投向市場，僅靠雄心壯志和市場的喧囂的是不夠的，必須能夠選擇那些既對好的作品有回饋，同時又樂意將新銳作家的首部作品推向世界的出版社。之後，格蕾絲與負責翻譯版權的同學薩利.萊利合作，僅在很短的時間內就將版權售至了十餘個國家。

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