THE BEAUTIFUL INDIFFERENCE

Book ID/图书代码： 03277011B45979

English Summary/英文概要： From the heathered fells and lowlands of Cumbria with their history of smouldering violence, to the speed and heat of summer London, to an eerily still lake in the Finnish wilderness, Sarah Hall evokes landscapes with extraordinary precision and grace. The characters within these territories are real-life survivors, but whether it’s a frustrated housewife seeking extreme experience or a young woman contemplating the death of her lover, dark devices and desires rise to the surface. And the human body, too – flawed, visceral, and full of emotional conflict – provides a sensuous frame for each unfolding drama. Uniquely disturbing and deeply erotic, this collection confirms Sarah Hall as one of the greatest writers of her generation. The BEAUTIFUL INDIFFERENCE includes ‘Butcher’s Perfume’, which was short-listed for the BBC National Short Story Prize in 2010.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 英聯邦作家獎大獎（Commonwealth Writers Prize），貝蒂.卡拉斯克獎（Betty Trask Award），以及拉克蘭圖書獎（Lakeland Book prize）等多項大獎得主Sarah Hall以其清新脫俗的文筆，強烈有力的筆調，輝煌壯麗的氣勢，向讀者奉獻了一本又一本好書。

薩拉.摩爾最新推出的短篇小說故事集。
從坎布里亞郡那些滿目瘡痍的瀑布和低地，到夏日倫敦的生活節奏與日常溫度，再到芬蘭野外那些古怪寂靜的湖泊，薩拉對景物的描繪與刻畫達到了相當精確與優美的程度。生活在那些地方的人民，是真正的倖存者。無論是一個因精神受挫而尋求極端的體驗的家庭主婦，還是對著一個已故愛人頻頻歎息的少女，黑暗的手段與欲望都浮出水面，暴露無遺。人類的軀體亦是如此——缺陷繁多，粗俗不堪，充滿情感的鬥爭，為每一場即將上演的劇碼提供唯美的前奏。本書以其獨特的干擾性，深度的情色誘惑，鞏固了作者作為同時代最偉大作家之一的地位。該集中收錄了Butcher’s Perfume，該故事獲得了2010年BBC國家短篇小說獎。（兼职翻译-徐曼曼）

Awards/获奖情况：‘A writer of show-stopping genius.’ Guardian ‘Hall’s prose is raw, surprising and often quite magnificent.’ Sunday Telegraph

About the Author/作者介绍： 薩拉.霍爾1974年出生於英國坎布里亞郡,本科畢業于阿伯裡斯特維斯大學，隨後又從蘇格蘭聖安德魯斯學院獲得創作性寫作文學碩士學位。薩拉2003年發表第一步小說Haweswater便取得了巨大成功，榮獲英聯邦作家獎大獎（Commonwealth Writers Prize）貝蒂.卡拉斯克獎（Betty Trask Award），以及拉克蘭圖書獎（Lakeland Book prize）。其2004年出版的第二部小說同樣好評如潮，入選了布克獎（MAN Booker Prize），費米娜文學獎等多項文學大獎。隨後而來的第三和第四部作品精彩依舊，獲獎繁多，充分展示了女作家的創作天賦。

Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. She received a BA from Aberystwyth University, Wales, and a MLitt in Creative Writing from St Andrews, Scotland. She is the author of Haweswater, which won the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel, a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award, and a Lakeland Book of the Year prize. In 2004, her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, was short-listed for the Man Booker prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia region), and the Prix Femina Etranger, and was long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her third novel, The Carhullan Army, was published in 2007, and won the 2006/07 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tiptree Jr. Award, a Lakeland Book of the Year prize, and was short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction. Her fourth novel, How to Paint a Dead Man, was longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize and won the Portico Prize for Fiction 2010. She was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Comp 2010 for Butcher’s Perfume while Vuotjavi was longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award 2011.

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