SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALE
Book ID/图书代码： 10010012B52254
English Summary/英文概要： A haunting modern fairy tale from the ’brilliantly original’ (SUNDAY TIMES) WORLD FANTASY AWARD-winning author.
Some Kind of Fairy Tale is a very English story. A story of woods and clearings, a story of folk tales and family histories. It is as if Neil Gaiman and Joanne Harris had written a Fairy Tale together.
It is Christmas afternoon and Peter Martin gets an unexpected phonecall from his parents, asking him to come round. It pulls him away from his wife and children and into a bewildering mystery.
He arrives at his parents house and discovers that they have a visitor. His sister Tara. Not so unusual you might think, this is Christmas after all, a time when families get together. But twenty years ago Tara took a walk into the woods and never came back and as the years have gone by with no word from her the family have, unspoken, assumed that she was dead. Now she’s back, tired, dirty, dishevelled, but happy and full of stories about twenty years spent travelling the world, an epic odyssey taken on a whim.
But her stories don’t quite hang together and once she has cleaned herself up and got some sleep it becomes apparent that the intervening years have been very kind to Tara. She really does look no different from the young women who walked out the door twenty years ago. Peter’s parents are just delighted to have their little girl back, but Peter and his best friend Richie, Tara’s one time boyfriend, are not so sure. Tara seems happy enough but there is something about her. A haunted, otherworldly quality. Some would say it’s as if she’s off with the fairies. And as the months go by Peter begins to suspect that the woods around their homes are not finished with Tara and his family...
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 获奖作家格雷厄姆•乔伊斯的迷人新作，围绕着英国一个小镇上一个女孩的离奇失踪而展开。她在二十年后突然的回归和她所经历的那些令人匪夷所思的故事，将让我们对真理的深度理解产生质疑。 二十年后，在塔拉•马丁从她的英国小镇上消失不见了，她的父母和她的兄弟之后消失了，彼得，一直无法直面这残酷的现实。 然后突然之间，在圣诞节，父母家门铃不时在那里响起，塔拉就这么看上去有些凌乱的但又似乎有些奇怪的站在家人面前。 这简直就是一个奇迹，但对彼得来说却是不祥预兆的即将来临。塔拉的故事不是虚构添加的。而难以置信地，她看上去几乎没有丝毫改变。
获奖作家格雷厄姆•乔伊斯探讨了梦想与现实之间,我们对于这个崭新世界已知和未知的理解。“童梦奇珍”正如其名一样是我们对于周遭世界中真实和无情的一次奇妙探索。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 成長於英國考文垂附近的農村，大學主修教育，後來在萊斯特大學攻讀現代英美文學碩士，2004年拿到博士學位，現任教於諾丁罕大學。他曾定居於希臘與中東，在此二地的遊歷經驗也成為日後創作的元素。
葛拉漢．喬伊斯曾以《黑暗姊妹》（Dark Sister）、《安魂曲》（Requiem）、《牙仙》（Tooth Fairy）和《靛藍色》（Indigo）四部作品，四次贏得「英倫奇幻獎」（British Fantasy Award）。而2003年，以二次大戰期間英國鄉間具有超能力的七姊妹為主角的作品《看見生命的男孩》（The facts of life）更獲「世界奇幻文學獎」（World Fantasy Award）殊榮，為他的創作生涯再創高峰。
喬伊斯的作品絕非一般的奇幻小說，他擅長以超現實手法探索人物心理，遊走於現實與幻想之間，作品主題與場景豐富多元，擅長處理心理學、玄學及超自然現象，對人類行為和性慾的探討，著墨甚多。美國權威《書單》雜誌（Booklist）更盛讚喬伊斯的作品：「令人想起魔幻寫實大師馬奎斯的作品。」
Graham Joyce was born into a Coventry mining family and now lives in Leicester. In addition to writing he teaches a Creative Writing course at Nottingham University.
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