ORDINARY DOGS: A STORY OF TWO LIVES
Book ID/图书代码： 04560011B49338
English Summary/英文概要： Eileen Battersby is the chief literature critic of the Irish Times and is, in the words of John Banville, ’the finest fiction critic we have’. But her first full-length book is not about international literature or the state of the novel. It is about dogs. Two dogs in particular, with the unlikely names of Bilbo and Frodo. She adopted the first from a horrible dog pound, and the second decided he liked her and moved in to join the family. She was in her very early twenties, an intensely serious student and runner who had just moved to Ireland from California. The dogs became her most loyal companions for over twenty years, witnesses to an often difficult human life and more important to her than most other humans.
This book is about two animals with personalities, emotions and prejudices. It is unlike any other book ever written about dogs. It is not sentimental or twee. Battersby became intimately involved in the lives of these intelligent, shrewd creatures, and brings them to life with rare passion and insight. She writes honestly and movingly about the reasons why, for certain people - especially women - there is more integrity in the mysterious relationship with a mammal who cannot speak than there is in most of the relationships that human society has to offer.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 用约翰•邦维尔的话来说，艾琳•巴特斯比不仅是爱尔兰时报的主要文学评论员，更是“至今最杰出的小说评论家”。 然而她的首部作品既与国际文学无关，业余小说本身无关，而是纯粹的关于狗狗的一本书。确切来讲，这本书讲述的是两只狗狗比尔博和弗拉多。她从一家恐怖的狗狗收容所里领养了比尔博，而弗拉多则是因为喜欢巴斯特比而自愿加入了他们的大家庭。当年的她仅二十出头，还是一名学生，刚从加利福尼亚搬到了爱尔兰。狗狗因此成了她最忠诚的伙伴，陪伴了她整整20年，见证了她人生旅途上的艰难困苦，对她而言，他们比任何人类都还要重要。
故事中的主人公---两条小狗各有其独特的个性，情感及偏好，使得这本书有异于以往描写狗狗的书，没有丝毫的感伤与脆弱，甚至故做多情。巴特斯比和她的两个机敏，灵慧的狗狗朋友亲密无间，他们的生命已经逐渐密不可分地交织在一起，正是巴斯特比用他的热情感染了他们，赋予他们以全新的生命。作者用其真实动人的笔触向我们娓娓道来为何总有一群人，尤其是女性，他们与无法言语的哺乳动物之间有着一种难以言喻神秘联系，这种联系显得那么完整纯粹，使得人类社会的大多数人际关系在其面前也只能黯然失色，自叹不如。(兼职翻译-DC)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 艾琳•巴特斯比出生在加利福尼亚，现为《爱尔兰时报》的一名艺术记者，责该报的文学版面。4次国家年度新闻艺术人物得主，她和其女儿娜迪亚及她们的马儿，狗狗以及猫咪们住在郊区，她的理想是培养一名奥运会跳马选手。 Born in California, Eileen Battersby is an Irish Times staff arts journalist and the paper’s Literary Correspondent. Four-time winner of the National Arts Journalist of the Year award, she lives in the country with her daughter, Nadia, and their horses, dogs and cats. Her ambition is to breed and/or produce an Olympic showjumper.
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