AN AFTERNOON IN SUMMER: MY YEAR ON A SOUTH SEA ISLAND
Book ID/图书代码： 01150511B49892
English Summary/英文概要： University lecturer and single mother Kathy Giuffre wants to escape from her stressful life working full-time and raising two young children. When her boyfriend agrees to join her and her sons for a year on a tropical island, she takes a sabbatical and starts packing. Then at the last minute he announces he isn’t coming. In captivating style, Giuffre tells what happens when she finds herself alone with her boys on a tiny speck in the South Pacific. She knows no one, the house she’s been promised is unliveable, and most other outsiders are on 10-day package tours. Her unlikely saviour is Emily, an 82- year-old Maori woman with a rambling house on the edge of the ocean. As time passes, Kathy is seduced and changed by Rarotonga and its way of life. An Afternoon in Summer is an inspirational story about having the courage to search for something better from life – and finally finding it.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 遇到問題時，逃避似乎不是解決的好方法。不如改變自己換個角度看待人生吧！
作者Kathy Giuffre身兼大學講師和單親媽媽數職。渴望沒有壓力的日子，急欲拋開眼前一切煩心的事物。於是她開始認真計畫前往南太平洋的拉羅東加島生活一年。沒想到出發前男友突然變卦，不過Kathy依舊決定維持原計畫帶著兩個兒子出發！
但…只有藍天白雲的生活似乎不如想像中浪漫。
抵達夢想中的天堂後，計畫外的事一件接著一件。原先租好的屋子原來是場誤會，Kathy與兩個孩子陷入無家可歸的窘境。究竟還有什麼事情等著他？另外八十二歲老管家，毛利人Emily，在Kathy的小島生活中是救星還是…(Vincent)
Awards/获奖情况：‘Delightful and refreshing ... brimming with sensuality and intelligence. Kathy Giuffre’s hilarious observations had me laughing out loud. She writes with disarming honesty, but this is also a love letter, rich with the joys and sorrows
of a lost paradise’--- Kapka Kassabova, author of Street Without a Name and Villa Pacifica
‘A well-written, funny and touching book about a woman who runs away from one life to find happiness in another.’---4/5 stars, Sarah Jane Barnett,Fishhead magazine
About the Author/作者介绍： Kathy Giuffre lectures in sociology of art at Colorado College, and is the author of Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific. She lives in Colorado Springs with her husband and two sons
Kathy Giuffre克羅拉多學院(Colorado College)的藝術社會學講師，同時是Collective Creativity一書的作者。現與家人定居於克羅拉多州。
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