THE RED HOUSE
Book ID/图书代码： 00200011B46200
English Summary/英文概要： The set-up of Mark Haddon’s brilliant new novel is simple: Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Richard has just re-married and inherited a willful stepdaughter in the process; Angela has a feckless husband and three children who sometimes seem alien to her. The stage is set for seven days of resentment and guilt, a staple of family gatherings the world over. But because of Haddon’s extraordinary narrative technique, the stories of these eight people are anything but simple. Told through the alternating viewpoints of each character, The Red House becomes a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes, tightly-guarded secrets and illicit desires, all adding up to a portrait of contemporary family life that is bittersweet, comic, and deeply felt. As we come to know each character they become profoundly real to us. We understand them, even as we come to realize they will never fully understand each other, which is the tragicomedy of every family.
The Red House is a literary tour-de-force that illuminates the puzzle of family in a profoundly empathetic manner -- a novel sure to entrance the millions of readers of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一部讲述当代家庭故事的惊世之作，独具匠心，耀眼炫目……
由《深夜小狗神秘习题》的作者马克.海登亲情奉献！
马克.海登这本杰出新作的背景设置十分简单：理查德是一名身家富裕的医生，他邀请与他日益疏远的妹妹一家到英国一个乡村地区度假旅行一周，以增进感情。理查德最近刚刚再婚，并且碰上了一个对他怀有敌意的继女。安吉拉的丈夫软弱无能，三个孩子与她也不大亲近。由此，本书以这七天为创作背景，以家庭相聚为主题，讲述了一段关于怨恨与罪恶的故事。 由于海登出色的超凡脱俗的叙述技巧，所以发生在这八个人之间的故事绝不简单。作者从每个角色的独特视角出发，把“红房子”变成了一首关于长久的怨恨、逝去的梦想、升起的希望、紧守的秘密以及非分之想的交响曲。所有者一切呈现出了一幅当代家庭生活画面：苦甜参半，滑稽可笑，感受深刻。随着我们开始了解每一个角色，他们变得如此真实可信。我们可以理解他们，我们甚至意识到他们永远不会完全了解彼此，而这就是每个家庭的悲喜剧。
《红房子》是一本文学力作，以一种深刻有力的移情方式向我们解释了当代家庭的困惑——相信这部作品一定会深深吸引住数以百万计的读者。(XMM)
Awards/获奖情况：版权已售：英国，美国，加拿大，以色列，法国，德国，荷兰，意大利，挪威，西班牙 Rights sold: UK: Cape (Editor Dan Franklin) , US & Canada: Doubleday (Editor Bill Thomas) , France: Laffont , Germany: Verlagsgruppe Random House
Hebrew: Kinneret , Holland: Contact ,Italy: Einaudi ,Norway: Gyldendal ,Spain: Salamandra
A hugely enjoyable, sympathetic novel...a tremendous pleasure...we have been absorbed, entertained and moved ---Observer
Haddon has a true understanding of the human heart. Whether he is writing about the teenagers...or the adults and their misjudgements, he never puts a foot wrong. The Red House shows that Haddon is much more than a one-hit wonder: he is a real novelist, and he is here to stay. ---Spectator
Haddon achieves a remarkable mélange of streams of consciousness, snatches of books, music, TV, private thoughts, lists, letters, all intertwined with sharply observed vignettes of everyday banality, soaring flights of description ---Guardian
About the Author/作者介绍： 马克•海登，作家、插图家与剧作家，著有15本童书，并曾两度荣获英国电视艺术学院（BAFTA）颁奖。
马克.海登是国际畅销作品《深夜小狗神秘习题》（The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time）和《纽约时报》畅销作品《黄昏老爸的烦恼习题》的作者。此外，《深夜小狗神秘习题》获得了《洛杉矶时报》最佳新人作品奖以及惠特布莱德年度图书奖。除了小说《说话的马》、《悲伤的女孩》《海底的村庄》和一本诗集之外，海登还创作了不计其数的获奖儿童文学书籍和电视剧本。
MARK HADDON is the author of the international bestseller, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and the Whitbread Book of the Year award; and the New York Times bestseller A Spot of Bother. In addition to The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, a collection of poetry, Haddon has also written and illustrated numerous award-winning children’s books and television screenplays.
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