CLOSE YOUR EYES

Book ID/图书代码： 11320011B48511

English Summary/英文概要： A lyrical and moving new novel about the ties of maternal love.

In 1981 Jenna abandoned her child and drove into the night, never to return. Jenna had been a folk singer, a hippie and radical anti-nuclear activist, who had lived for twenty years in a commune in the remote highlands of Scotland. Her disappearance was reported in the press as a fatal road accident. Her body was never found.

Thirty years later her daughter Rowan, suffering from post-natal depression, becomes convinced that she cannot be a real mother unless she discovers what really happened to Jenna. She leaves her baby, her husband and her life in London to take up the search, returning to her childhood home. But times have changed. The commune is shrouded in secrecy, and Rowan is forced to hide her identity in order to seek out the truth. The longer she stays in the commune, the more difficult she finds it to return, and she must battle to stop her future becoming a repeat of her lost mother’s past.

Close Your Eyes is an intensely moving novel about the enduring bonds of maternal love and the changing role of women since the radical experiments of the 1960s. It tells the secret history of a revolutionary social experiment, and, with unflinching honesty, depicts the impacts, both good and bad, that it had on its children. Evoking the folk songs of the 60s and 70s, Close your Eyes summons back that era and is touched by a gentle, lyrical passion.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《CLOSE YOUR EYES》這本傑出的小說探討了母女間永恆的紐帶關係。傳承60年代和70年代的社會風潮的變化，描述了社會的實驗性變革。作者誠實地刻畫了這種變革對孩子的影響。作者不顧影響的好壞都坦誠地展現給讀者。

1981年，在一片嬉皮士風行的社區里，一位母親獨自照顧了那些嬉皮士們拋棄的孩子數年後離開了這片土地，甚至拋棄了自己的孩子，驅車駛入夜色中，一去不回。第二天媒體報導說這位母親死於車禍，但誰都沒有找到母親的屍體。30年後，曾被母親拋棄的Rowan自己要做母親了。幼年被棄的傷痕無法磨滅，她一直覺得自己會傷害女兒，除非能查清過去的掩藏在蘇格蘭郊外高地中的迷案。她離開剛在倫敦建起的小家庭，只身回到兒時的宅子，找到那個迷霧密佈的“失樂園”。那裡有一個狂熱的邪教領導者，在各種儀式和圣禮中，一張母親去世后一周寄來的明信片出現在Rowan面前。當真相慢慢浮現的時候，Rowan也越來越恐懼，她會不會迷失了自己？ （Celia）

Awards/获奖情况：中總會有這樣的聲音：若現代社會的一切都是垃圾，那麼我們就該尋找一種與現在行為全然相反的生活方式，以感受將來的滋味。在這本Ewan Morrison典雅緊迫的故事中，Eva，故事迷人的核心人物說‘真相像是一種聲音飄向我，在我耳邊暗暗細語，離開喧鬧世事，找到另一個我，然後不再寂寞……’每個想讀對另一種生活方式睿智、濃厚感情的描寫，另一種存在的壓力和諂媚都會喜歡這本書。”——英國《獨立報》

“作者成功刻畫了一為女性描述者，讀者都忘記了作者是為男士。但Rowan 不只是一個女人，代表的是每個人，每個在壓力、失望、被棄和破滅的夢想中掙扎痛苦的人。除此之外，此書的亮點還有引人入勝的情節、Morrison對人物和對話的精妙描寫還有他對文體技巧自信的掌控。” ——《星期日蘇格蘭報》

“Morrison 巧妙地隱藏在女性人物中觀察描寫這個世界。他尖銳地刻畫了一個社區從嬉皮士風行的地區變成資本主義自助商業社會。故事震撼、情節緊迫。”——《觀察者報》

“Beautiful. Haunting. If Ewan Morrison was a woman, Close Your Eyes would be destined for the Orange Prize shortlist” -Helen Walsh

“Close Your Eyes is an astonishing book. It manages to be both clear-eyed and harsh, compassionate and just. It takes us right to the heart of the turbulent social changes that defined our last quarter century and it is a revealing, honest, searing novel about mothers and children, about what it means to be part of a family. The story, the writing, the moral intelligence: all of it is a knock out” -Christos Tsiolkos, Author of The Slap

“A novel that deals with post-natal depression that is both sensitive and unflinchingly honest, Morrison’s story explores the bond and limits of motherhood.” -STYLIST Magazine

“Morrison inhabits his female characters with impressive skill, and his sharp portrayal of the commune’s evolution from hippy enclave to capitalist self-help business makes what is a potentially depressing novel a riveting read.” – THE OBSERVER

“One of the successes of the book is Morrison’s convincing use of a female narrator... the reader forgets the author is male... Yet Rowan is not just a woman, she is everyman, anyone who has struggled with depression, disappointment, abandonment and disillusion. Highlights include the page-turning pleasure of a well-turned plot, Morrison’s skilful crafting of character and dialogue and his confident handling of stylistic techniques” – SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

“For those with revolutionary yearnings, it’s one of the more seductive whispers in our hearts: if all modern life is rubbish, then we must commit to a form of existence that challenges all existing behaviours, that lets us taste the future. In the manifesto of Eva, the charismatic but controlling guru at the heart of Ewan Morrison’s elegant and urgent novel, this truth "came to me like a voice... whispering to me, to leave the world of noisy clamour, to find others like me and no longer be alone.... Anyone wanting to read a wise, emotionally literate gauge of the burdens - and blarney - of alternative living should buy it immediately.” – THE INDEPENDENT

“Beautiful. Haunting. If Ewan Morrison was a woman, Close Your Eyes would be destined for the Orange Prize shortlist” -Helen Walsh

“Close Your Eyes is an astonishing book. It manages to be both clear-eyed and harsh, compassionate and just. It takes us right to the heart of the turbulent social changes that defined our last quarter century and it is a revealing, honest, searing novel about mothers and children, about what it means to be part of a family. The story, the writing, the moral intelligence: all of it is a knock out”-Christos Tsiolkos, Author of The Slap

About the Author/作者介绍： “對於那些想要變革的人，心Ewan Morrison著有五本書《SWUNG》、《MENAGE》、《DISTANCE》和短篇故事集《THE LAST BOOK YOU READ》，以及最近新書《Close your eyes》和《Tales from the Mall》。他的第一本小說《SWUNG》已出售電影版權，并定於2012年開拍。Ewan擔任電視電影導演和劇作家有十年之久，獲得過電影和電視藝術學院獎。他的動畫片和網上作品也獲得好評。

Ewan Morrison is the author of The Last Book You Read, a collection of stories, and the novels Swung, Distance and Ménage. He lives in Glasgow.

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