THE SWEET GIRL: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 12760012B52736
English Summary/英文概要： A LOVE STORY TOLD FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF ARISTOTLE’S SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, PYTHIAS Pythias was a toddler in Annabel Lyon’s award-winning first novel, The Golden Mean. In Aristotle’s will (an actual historical document) he made careful provision for Pythias’ arranged marriage. The Sweet Girl is about the resulting power struggle between father and daughter over control of her future; about their family’s flight from Athens after the death of Alexander the Great, and about Pythias’ harrowing ordeal after her father’s death.
We see what it was like to be a little girl coming of age under the tutelage of a brilliant philosopher father, and discover the lived experience of a young woman in ancient Greece. Until her betrothed came home from war to claim her, Pythias was left to the mercy of myriad social forces beyond her control. Although she was sure that she didn’t want to be farmed out arbitrarily to an older man, Pythias also had to find a way around the stranglehold of her society.
In The Sweet Girl we follow her as she navigates dramatic dilemmas with wit, intelligence, and strength, and with surprising and gratifying results.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 女性版的《The Golden Mean》，從亞里斯多德16歲的女兒視角講述的一場古希臘女性獨立史詩和愛情追求的征程。
在《The Golden Mean》中，Pythias還是一個牙牙學語的嬰兒，在這個輕視女性的大哲學的保護下，她的生活全被安排好了，包括婚姻、生存的依賴等等。從她的視角，我們將瞭解到古希臘女性的生長、生活環境。
當Pythias從未謀面的未婚夫從戰場回來，威脅著要跟她結婚，這個可憐的姑娘只能任憑各種社會勢力決定其命運。雖然她不想被年長的男人任意豢養。皮西厄斯也不得不為自己找到一條掙脫社會束縛的道路。
然而，亞里斯多德去世後，Pythias要面對更多壓力和艱難的生活。在《The Sweet Girl》這部書中，我們見識了她運用自己的智慧，理解力和韌性游刃于那段跌宕起伏的戲劇性的人生困境，從而達到一種令人驚訝和皆大歡喜的結局。（Sandy&Celia)
Awards/获奖情况：
位列Toronto Star前20名
入圍加拿大豐業銀行吉勒獎提名
《環球郵報》選出的最驚心動魄的15本書
版權已賣：加拿大、美国、英国、法國、土耳其
Rights previously sold to Random House Canada for publication in fall 2012 and to Knopf in the USA.Canada French language: Editions Alto / UK: Atlantic Books, Jan 2013 / France: Editions la Table Ronde / Turkey: Pegasus Yayinlari
*Annabel’s talk on The Sweet Girl at Ben MacNally’s Books and Brunch, Toronto (starts at minute 31)
*The Sweet Girl is on the Giller longlist
*The Sweet Girl makes the Top 20 in the Toronto Star
*15 dazzling fall fiction reads: The Globe and Mail singles out The Sweet Girl
“The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle’s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The Sweet Girl slips sideways around the philosopher to examine the lives of girls and women when we were not yet human.” — MARINA ENDICOTT, author of The Little Shadows and Good to a Fault
“Annabel Lyon is a wonderful writer, adept at breathing life into the ancient past. She reanimates near-mythical characters until we feel we know them intimately—their dreams and desires, their brilliance and their failings—which is an achievement only the finest historical novelists can aspire to. I loved The Golden Mean, and to return to the world of Aristotle and Alexander in The Sweet Girl is a rare pleasure.” — JANE JOHNSON, author of The Tenth Gift, The Salt Road and The Sultan’s Wife
About the Author/作者介绍： Annabel Lyon是著名的中篇小說《最美好的事物》和故事小說《擁有權》的作者，這部作品被提名威爾森小說獎，青少年小說《All-Season Edie》和《The Golden Mean》入圍了加拿大吉勒獎，總督獎，艾瑟爾威爾遜獎和英聯邦共和獎。還奪得羅傑斯作家的信任獎，《黃金分割》已經被翻譯成十四種語言，並成為加拿大排名第一的暢銷書。Annabel現在正在著手準備續篇。她最近為青年朋友撰寫的作品《Encore Edie》，於2011年2月發佈了相關評論。
Annabel研究古典音樂，哲學，和法律，在她決定成為全職作家前曾教授鋼琴課。她目前和伴侶及兩個孩子，住在加拿大不列顛省，溫哥華外的西海岸。那裡曾是她用八年時間撰寫出《中庸之道》的地方。她在加拿大英屬哥倫比亞大學創意寫作系授課，在那裡他接受了美術碩士學位。
Annabel Lyon is the author of Oxygen (stories), The Best Thing for You (novellas), which was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, All-Season Edie (juvenile novel), and The Golden Mean, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Ethel Wilson Prize, and the Commonwealth Prize. Winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize, The Golden Mean has been translated into fourteen languages and became a #1 bestseller in Canada. The Sweet Girl is a sequel to it. Her latest work for young people, Encore Edie, was released in February 2011 to glowing reviews.
Annabel studied classical music, philosophy, and law and taught piano before she decided to write full-time. She lives on the west coast of Canada outside Vancouver, British Columbia, with her partner and two children, who were born during the eight years she took to write The Golden Mean. She teaches at the Creative Writing Department of the University of British Columbia, from which she received her Master’s Degree in Fine Arts.
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