WINTER’S TALE

Book ID/图书代码： 14320011B47338

English Summary/英文概要： New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake--orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side.
. Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter Lake, a middle-aged Irish burglar, and Beverly Penn, a young girl, who is dying. Peter Lake, a simple, uneducated man, because of a love that, at first he does not fully understand, is driven to stop time and bring back the dead. His great struggle, in a city ever alight with its own energy and besieged by unprecedented winters, is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 暮色籠罩，寒風怒吼，燈光閃爍……紐約的夜生活正式拉開帷幕。紐約是一個非凡的想像空間，是歷史上最偉大的建築，而且任何現存的事物都無法展現出它的生命力。孤兒皮特.萊科是一位大師級的技工，在一個寒冷的冬夜，他打算對一座如同曼哈頓西區那些豪宅一樣漂亮的堡壘實施搶劫。
皮特本認為房間裡空無一人，事實上這家人的女兒留在家中。接著，愛情便在中年夜賊皮特與年輕姑娘貝弗莉.佩恩之間萌生了。可惜的是貝弗莉即將不久于人世。皮特頭腦簡單，沒接收過什麼教育，他一心只想著拯救心愛之人，所以竟然瘋狂到想要中斷時間以保住貝弗莉的性命。在這樣一個靠自身力量就能熠熠發光城市，一個連續被數個史無前例的寒冬侵襲過的城市，皮特的愛情成為了美國文學史上最唯美、也最離奇的故事之一。(XMM)

Awards/获奖情况：“這本關於紐約市的史詩級著作第一次以平裝版亮相，目的就在迎接作者的新作《放在防蛀蟲盒子裡的回憶錄》”——《出版人週刊》

•Film adaptation written and directed by Akiva Goldsman and starring Will Smith, Russell Crowe, Colin Farrell, and Jennifer Connelly to be released in the US February 14, 2014

•#3 on New York Times trade paperback bestseller list for February 9, 2014

•“Is it not astonishing that a work so rooted in fantasy, filled with narrative high jinks and comic flights, stands forth centrally as a moral discourse? It is indeed…I find myself nervous, to a degree I don’t recall in my past as a reviewer, about failing the work, inadequately displaying its brilliance.” – NYTBR

•“Helprin’s book is breathtaking…Helprin is splendid, a major talent…funnier and shrewder than Thomas Wolfe and much more accurate in his poetic exuberance…Though there are suggestions of John Barth in its metaphysical, and John Irving in its anecdotal discursiveness…and, more than anything else, there is Walt Whitman and his lyrical city vision…[but] it is not quite like anything else.” – Los Angeles Times

•“This novel stretches the boundaries of contemporary literature. It is a gifted writer’s love affair with the language.” – Newsday

•“Helprin is more than a major writer; he has all the makings of a great one.” – USA Today

•“Helprin has galvanized the universe!” – Boston Globe

About the Author/作者介绍： 馬克.赫爾普林出生於1947年6月28日，是一名美國作家，記者和保守派評論員。馬克•赫爾普林（Mark Helprin）曾就讀於哈佛、普林斯頓和牛津三大名校，為以色列陸軍、空軍和英國商船隊效過力。他的作品包括《東方的鴿子短篇小說集》（A Dove of the East and Other Stories）、《試煉之火》（Refiner’s Fire）、《艾理斯島短篇小說集》（Ellis Island and Other Stories）、《冬日傳說》（Winter’s Tale）、《一戰中的士兵》（A Soldier of the Great War）、《防蟻盒子裡的回憶錄》（Memoir from Antproof Case）和《太平洋短篇小說集》（The Pacific and Other Stories.）。目前，作者住在佛吉尼亞。

Educated at Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford, MARK HELPRIN served in the Israeli army, Israeli Air Force, and British Merchant Navy. He is the author of, among other titles, A Dove of the East and Other Stories, Refiner’s Fire, Winter’s Tale, and A Soldier of the Great War. He lives in Virginia.

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