MEMOIR FROM ANTPROOF CASE: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 14320011B47339

English Summary/英文概要： An old American who lives in Brazil is writing his memoirs. An English teacher at the naval academy, he is married to a woman young enough to be his daughter and has a little son whom he loves. He sits in a mountain garden in Niterói, overlooking the ocean.
As he reminisces and writes, placing the pages carefully in his antproof case, we learn that he was a World War II ace who was shot down twice, an investment banker who met with popes and presidents, and a man who was never not in love. He was the thief of the century, a murderer, and a protector of the innocent. And all his life he waged a valiant, losing, one-man battle against the world’s most insidious enslaver: coffee. Mark Helprin combines adventure, satire, flights of transcendence, and high comedy in this "memoir" of a man whose life reads like the song of the twentieth century.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一位住在巴西的美國老人正在撰寫一部回憶錄。海軍學院的一位英文教師娶了一個足矣做他女兒的年輕妻子，他還有一個疼愛有加的小兒子。他坐在尼泰羅依一個山間花園裡，俯瞰著大海。
他一邊回憶，一邊記錄，並把已完成的紙張小心翼翼地放進一個能防蛀蟲的盒子裡。我們知道他曾參加過二戰，並且兩次被槍擊倒；他做過投資銀行家，見到的都是教皇，總統之類的人物；當然他的情感生活從來不缺少風花雪月。他世紀神偷，一個謀殺犯，一個無辜者的保護人。終其一生，他一直孤獨地與世界上最陰險的敵人—咖啡—作鬥爭，結果卻徒勞無功。
在這部回憶錄當中，馬克.赫爾普林將冒險，諷刺，超驗精神，以及高雅喜劇等創作元素結合在一起，讀起來就如同欣賞一隻21世紀的歌曲。(兼职翻译-XMM)

Awards/获奖情况："A prize performance . . . A funny, extravagant, prodigal piece of writing . . . rapturous and melancholy . . . its power never flags."---THE NEW YORK TIMES
“一部可以得獎的作品……情節有趣，誇張……令讀者時而歡喜，時而憂鬱……本書的魅力將經久不息。”—《紐約時報》

"Splendidly entertaining . . . Joyce and Nabokov could produce verbal astonishments as readily. Not many others come to mind."---TIME
“華麗壯觀，令人愉快……除了喬伊絲和納博科夫，我再也想不到其他能夠表達如此流暢的人。”—《時代》

About the Author/作者介绍： 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.
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。

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