THE UNINVITED
Book ID/图书代码： 00200011B49351
English Summary/英文概要： A seven-year-old girl puts a nail-gun to her grandmother’s neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry. Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Asperger’s Syndrome has seen to that. But he does have a talent for spotting behavioural patterns, and an outsider’s fascination with group dynamics. Nothing obvious connects Hesketh’s Southeast Asian case with the atrocities back home. Or with the increasingly odd behaviour of his beloved step-son, Freddy. But when Hesketh’s Taiwan contact dies shockingly and more acts of sabotage and child violence sweep the globe, he is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life, his career and, most devastatingly of all, his role as a father. Part psychological thriller, part dystopian nightmare, The Uninvited is a powerful and viscerally unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一个七岁大的女孩拿着一把装修专用的钉枪，射向了自己祖母的脖子。犯罪专家认为这只是一起独立的案件。但是这些专家的预判是错误的。纵观全世界，孩子杀害他们的家人的事件屡见不鲜。暴力是否是有传染性？赫斯基•洛克被指派去找出这起案件的诱因。融合了心理惊悚，反乌托邦式的梦魇元素的这部小说，《不请自来》有力地展现了那来自懵懂的发自内心不安的画面。(Sandy)
评审认为：“赫斯基在这部独裁匠心的迷人惊悚小说中是一个难得的亮点。”
Awards/获奖情况：2013 CWA Steel Dagger Long listSo compelling and, unlike some tales of approaching apocalypse, positively races with ideas ... Expertly paced, combining moments of chilling horror with deadpan comedy, this audacious novel is utterly gripping Daily Mail Part science-fiction, part thriller, part cautionary tale ... The Uninvited is a masterclass in creepiness - as unsettling as Margaret Atwood or Kazuo Ishiguro but with modern detail such as Skype calls, industrial espionage and Twitter. It is this hybrid of haunted souls and capitalist cautionary tale that gives the novel its power Independent Original, nightmarish ... The Uninvited transports the reader to an apocalyptic world on the brink of destruction - recalling Margaret Atwood’s haunting The Handmaid’s Tale ... A compelling, poetic and subtle psychological thriller The Lady Psychologically rich and consistently thought-provoking ... The Uninvited is always absorbing, sometimes funny, often poignant Sunday Times Hesketh’s matter-of-factness makes for a brilliantly effective narrative voice in the face of unbelievable events: deadpan, even comic ... In the course of eight inventive, provocative novels, Jensen has carved out a fictional space dense with elements of fantasy and thriller, satire and SF, science and cod-science, but entirely her own. The mainstream is moving towards her, rather than the other way around Guardian Must read ... We Need to Talk About Kevin meets The Children of Men in this literary thriller from the author of The Rapture. As the unsettling story unfolds, delayed flights will be no problem with this in your bag Elle, Summer Reads: Books for the Beach I’ve never read anything like this. Chilling, and thought-provoking, this book offers a vision of a future where things go badly wrong. This is a psychological thriller written by an author with precision timing and an innate talent for the genre ... Compelling to read, difficult to put down, Liz Jensen’s new novel is both terrifying and redemptive Monique Roffey, author of The White Woman on the Green Bicycle An unsettling portrayal of relationships and society in meltdown, Jensen gives us a story that is both gripping and slightly disturbing ... The Uninvited reads as a cross between thriller, science fiction novel and social commentary. Quite an achievement! **** Lifestyle
About the Author/作者介绍： 莉兹•延森是八部畅销小说的作者，她的获奖作品包括入围《英国卫报》奖项的《避难所婴儿》，《为所居的犯罪》，《路易的第九条命》和《全神贯注》。她的作品曾三度被英国著名的女性作家奖项橘子奖提名，而她的作品也在超过20多个国家出版。莉兹•延森住在伦敦的温布尔顿。Liz Jensen′s critically-acclaimed work spans black comedy, science fiction, satire, domestic drama, historical fantasy and psychological suspense. Three of her novels have been nominated for the Orange Prize and in 1998 she was short listed for the 1998 Guardian Fiction Award. Her work has been developed for film and TV, adapted for radio, selected for Channel 4′s TV Book Club and translated into more than 20 languages.
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