THE LOW ROAD (NEW EDITION)

Book ID/图书代码： 11980511B51177

English Summary/英文概要： Lee, a petty criminal, wakes in a seedy motel with a bullet in his side and a suitcase of stolen money, his memory hazy as to how he got there. Soon he meets Wild, a doctor who is escaping his own disastrous life, and the two men set out for the safety of the countryside.

As they flee the city, they develop an uneasy intimacy, inevitably revisiting their pasts even as they seek to evade them. Lee is haunted by a brief stint in jail; Wild is on the run from the legacy of medical malpractice. But Lee and Wild are not alone: they are pursued through the increasingly gothic landscape by the ageing gangster Josef, who must retrieve the stolen money and deal with Lee to ensure his own survival. Ultimately, all three men are forced to confront the parts of themselves they sought to outrun.

Part noir thriller, part modern tale of alienation and despair, The Low Road seduces the reader into a story that unfolds and deepens hypnotically. A brilliant debut novel.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： “決定”足以影響一個人的一生，而兩個做出錯誤決定進而淪為命運所玩弄。
Wild一位前途看好的醫生，遭人指控因為醫治誤診而沈溺於毒品，妻離子散。
Lee賴以犯罪而求生的年輕人。
兩者都因過失犯錯逃避人生，而兩人意外的相遇，卻使他們必須從新開始面對自己。Lee在旅館醒來發現身邊有一顆子彈和一只裝滿鈔票的皮箱，同時也察覺身邊另有一人Wild，兩人開始找尋在來到旅館前失去記憶的原因，而過程也迫使雙方的命運緊緊相連…
本書不同於一般警探和犯人之間的相互攻訐，也沒有複雜難解的神秘推理事件，作者以特殊的筆法寫出探討犯罪者的心理和其動機過程。(CL)

Awards/获奖情况：澳洲年度最佳小說

犯罪小說作家協會 / 奈德‧凱利獎得主(Winner, Ned Kelly Award 2008)

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The year’s best book — The Australian Financial Review Magazine, Summer 2007

Shortlisted for the 2006 Victorian Premier’s Award for an unpublished manuscript

’Womersley’s taut, almost monosyllabic prose creates a relentless momentum as it plunges into a black dreamscape with echoes of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Samuel Beckett, Horace McCoy, Georges Simenon and Philip K. Dick …
He does not set out to solve puzzles, provide answers or fasten the ends of riddles together, though his plotting is captivating. His is an almost poetic concern for the death of people, the way there is no redemption at their end, only the sensation of a world torn from its hinge, barrelling through space …
Maybe it is Cormac McCarthy of whom the reader is so naggingly reminded. It’s a big call, but Womersley’s mastery of rhythm and image is, like the crusty American’s, able to sustain complexity at the level of a sentence and a paragraph while holding the structures of his novel together ... This is writing you often stop to read aloud.’---Graeme Blundell (The Australian)

’It is difficult to believe that The Low Road is a first novel. It has the controlled pace of an experienced hand … rife with images, it unfolds like a film … Womersley’s language is polished and assured, each word precisely chosen, and every image finely constructed.’---Louise Swinn (The Age)

’Womersley is a gifted writer with a curious and liberated command of the language … The Low Road is an engrossing, confronting and excellent novel from a talented young Australian writer.’---Simone Atallah (ABC First Tuesday Bookclub)

Rights sold: ANZ audio (Louis Braille Audio); World English excl. ANZ (Quercus); US, UK, French; Vietnamese translation (Le Chi Culture and Communications)

About the Author/作者介绍： Chris Womersley’s fiction and reviews have appeared in Granta, The Best Australian Stories 2006, 2010 and 2011, Griffith REVIEW, Meanjin and The Age. His debut novel, The Low Road, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. His second novel, Bereft, won the Australian Book Industry Award for Literary Fiction and the Indie Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Age fiction prize and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Visit his website at www.chriswomersley.com.

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