SHELTER: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 12760011B45491
English Summary/英文概要： A spellbinding and wise coming-of-age story from New Face of Fiction Frances Greenslade, Shelter draws readers into the precarious world of two young sisters in search of their mother, and brings to life a breathtaking BC landscape.
Maggie may be the youngest, but she is a born worrier. Even when everything is going right for her and her sister, Jenny, for her beautiful red-haired mother, Irene, and for her dad—who loves to take Maggie into the woods around their house in Duchess Creek to teach her survival skills—she can’t help worrying.
When her dad is killed in a logging accident, it seems that Maggie was right to be anxious. But never in her wildest dreams did she imagine what happens next: one day her mom drops the girls off in Williams Lake to billet for a while with a couple who knew their dad. She says it’s only temporary and promises to come back for them soon, but weeks turn into months and then years.
When Jenny eventually gets into trouble she can’t cope with, fourteen-year-old Maggie decides that it’s up to her to find Irene and repair their fractured family. Maggie’s quest turns out to be not only finding her mother, but understanding her. And also figuring out how to forgive her.
“We did not try to look for our mother. She was gone, like a cat who goes out the back door one night and doesn’t return, and you don’t know if a coyote got her or a hawk or if she sickened somewhere and couldn’t make it home. We let time pass, we waited, trusting her, because she had always been the best of mothers. She’s the mother, that’s what we said to each other…”
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Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我們並沒有設法尋找我們的母親。她離開了，就像出門後一夜未返的貓…
「我們並沒有設法尋找我們的母親。她離開了，就像出門後一夜未返的貓，而我們並不知道牠是否被土狼或老鷹叼走，或是牠因在某處身染重病而無法回家。我們只是不斷的讓時間流逝，持續等待，因為我們信任她，她一直都是最好的母親。我們對彼此說，她是我們的母親…」
Maggie家中的小孩除了她以外還有個妹妹Jenny。她的母親Irene有一頭明亮的紅髮，而父親常帶她到森林裡學習求生技能。
而Maggie從小是個多愁善感，有點想太多及過度憂慮的小孩，就算當時她與家人一切和樂，她還是無法停止對未來或現況擔憂…
然而，就在一場奪去父親性命的伐木意外後，她擔憂已久的事似乎漸漸成真了…
母親將她們倆姊妹寄宿在父親的友人家，原本說好一週後會來接她們，但時間過一個月、一年後還是不見母親的出現…
兩姊妹心裡還是相信母親會回來帶她們的，所以一直在寄宿家庭等著。但是直到妹妹Jenny闖了大禍而14歲的姊姊實在無法處理，Maggie便決定動身去尋找母親的下落，及瞭解母親離開的原因…
Maggie最終或許未必真能找到母親，但卻讓她認清是該忘記她的時候…(Vincent)
Awards/获奖情况：“Poignant, tender and vivid, Shelter traces the relationship of two daughters with their missing mother through family stories. Greenslade’s gorgeous landscapes and loving attention to her characters make this journey through loss and survival unforgettable. I was glued to every page.”---Eden Robinson, author of Monkey Beach Since I wrote you the note below at the end of July, Mare Verlag in Germany has reprinted their hardcover edition twice and now has 10,000 copies in print.
Turkish rights to Frances Greenslade’s novel SHELTER, about two sisters looking for their lost mother, have been sold to Aspendos Yayinlari by Atilla Izgi Turgut at Akcali Copyright Agency on behalf of Denise Bukowski at The Bukowski Agency, bringing the number of territories sold to six.
INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS: FICTION
World French rights to Frances Greenslade’s 2011 novel SHELTER, about two girls in search of their missing mother, have gone to éditions Médiaspaul of Montreal, bringing the total number of territories sold to seven. The deal was done by Anna Jarota of Anna Jarota Agency on behalf of Denise Bukowski at The Bukowski Agency.
For further information, see: http://www.bukowskiagency.com/Shelter.htm
About the Author/作者介绍： Frances Greenslade，生於加拿大安大略省，畢業於溫尼伯大學University of Winnipeg英國文學系。畢業後遷居溫哥華，並在加拿大英屬哥倫比亞大學完成寫作創意的碩士學位。目前在奧肯納根大學教授英文寫作。作品曾在多本文學刊物中登載，此外著有兩部非小說類的回憶錄A Pilgrim in Ireland: A Quest for Home 及By the Secret Ladder: A Mother’s Initiation。《避難所》Shelter是她第一部小說類作品。http://www.francesgreenslade.com/
Frances Greenslade was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, where she grew up with four sisters and one brother playing among the orchards of the Niagara Peninsula. The family moved to Winnipeg when she was ten. Francie earned an English degree at University of Winnipeg before moving to Vancouver, where she completed an MFA in Creative Writing at UBC in 1992. Francie lives in Penticton, B.C., where she teaches English Literature at Okanagan College. She has published work in several literary magazines as well as two previous memoirs, A Pilgrim in Ireland: A Quest for Home and By the Secret Ladder: A Mother’s Initiation (Penguin, 2002 and 2007). Shelter is her first novel.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights sold:
US: Free Press, Summer 2012
Canada: Knopf
UK: Virago
Holland: Orlando
Germany: Mare Verlag
German Paperback: Suhrkamp
Italy: Keller Editore
Shortlisted for the B.C. Book Prize for Fiction
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