THE SILENCE ROOM
Book ID/图书代码： 03240312B52939
English Summary/英文概要： Chain-smoking alcoholics, warring academics, gothic stalkers and aspiring writers are just some of the visitors that browse the mysterious library at the heart of Sean O’Brien’s fiction debut. Idlers and idolisers alike can be referenced, in body or in text, among the crepuscular alcoves and dim staircases of this seemingly unassuming building. The secret to a family curse, a dog-eared first edition of Stevens’Harmonium, the gruesome fate of a feminist literary theorist – all are available to simply take down from the shelf, as are the catalogue of genres and subject areas that O’Brien himself effortlessly deploys: from gothic horror to English pastoral, Critical Theory to Cold War noir.
Take a walk between these shelves. Crack the spine and blow the dust off lives unlived because, so far, they’re unread. Become, if you dare, as trapped as them…
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 酗酒抽煙，戰術學者，追尋哥特式怪誕風格的，一些具有抱負的作家們，只是粗略地看到了Sean O’Brien首部神秘小說的精彩部分。閒人和粉絲們一樣也可以翻閱，在故事或文章中，在這座看似平常建築中昏暗的石縫和樓道中。一個家庭被詛咒的隱秘，一部折過頁角的Stevens’ Harmonium版本的書籍，令人毛骨悚然的女權主義理論家—— 所有這些命運的秘密都可以從書架上輕鬆地獲取，如同O’Brien自己可以輕鬆地展開所有目錄的類型和主題範圍：從哥特式粗礦的顫慄到英倫式的田園風格，從批判理論到冷戰時期的黑色小說題材。閒步在這些書架之間。抹去由於生活歲月而留下的灰塵和開裂的書脊，事到如今，他們還未被翻閱過，如果你有膽量，將為和他們一樣陷入困境……
‘Sean O’Brien，像格雷厄姆•格林，瞬間樹立了自己風格的小說場景，潛藏在泰恩或亨伯的水域中的罪惡，神秘與幻滅。他的故事閃爍著黑色喜劇和以死亡為主題的及超現實主義的感覺。在O’Brien的國度中，你可能會聽到一列火車正從城裡出發的汽笛聲，但你永遠不可能準備就緒，因為你在天國後街的酒吧，對渴望的女孩已心力憔悴。看起來沒有什麼是永遠： 更可怕的是，…來自我們的最好的作家筆下的一流的故事 。’ - Helen Dunmore
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Awards/获奖情况：Rights available: Worldwide ‘Sean O’Brien, like Graham Greene, creates his own instantly recognisable fictional landscape, where crime, mystery and disillusion lurk by the waters of the Tyne or Humber. His stories glint with black comedy and touches of the macabre and surreal. In O’Brien country you may hear the hoot of a train pulling out of the city, but you’ll never be on it, because your place is here in the kingdom of backstreet pubs, tired, desirable girls and drowned men. Nothing is ever as it seems: it is much more frightening than that… First-class stories from one of our finest writers.’---Helen Dunmore
‘Does for Libraries what Ursula Andress did for Bikinis’ ---Val McDermid
‘The prose, winging between stateliness and the coarsest urban patois, is fluent and flawless...’---The Independent on Sunday
‘Strange, creepy, often brilliant...’---The Financial Times
Often in the last scene, often in the last line, O’Brien... withdraws his offer of a pint of mild in the local piss-palace and nails your bottom lip to the bar instead...’---Times Literary Supplement.
About the Author/作者介绍： Sean O’Brien1952年出生於倫敦，在赫爾長大。他出版了七部詩集：(1983年) The Indoor Park/室內公園，榮獲了毛姆文學獎；（1987年）The Frighteners/恐怖幽靈；（1991年）HMS溫室；(1995年)Ghost Train/幽靈列車；（2001年）Downriver/下游；（2006年）Inferno/地獄之火，和他的但丁地獄詩歌版本：(2007年) The Drowned Book/溺水的書。後者贏得了2007年度的湯瑪斯•斯特爾那斯•艾略特獎。《Ghost Train》，《Downriver》和《The Drowned Book》都獲得了（年度最佳詩歌選集）的詩歌獎，使Sean O’Brien成為獲得這一獎項的唯一一位詩人。他的散文已被收錄在《The Deregulated Muse》中：散文大多基於當代英國和愛爾蘭的詩歌以及他曾作為The Firebox的編輯：涵蓋了1945年之後英國和愛爾蘭的詩歌。他已為國家大劇院，翻譯了（古希臘早期喜劇代表作家、詩人）阿裡斯多芬尼斯的《The Birds》並作為英國國家廣播四台的經典系列改編小說，包括葉夫根尼紮米亞京的《We》（2004年）和格雷厄姆•格林的《Ministry of Fear/部長的恐懼》（2006年）。他第一部的短篇小說選集是2009年Comma出版的《The Silence Room/寂靜的房間》。
Sean O’Brien was born in London in 1952 and grew up in Hull. He has published seven collections of verse: The Indoor Park (1983), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Frighteners (1987); HMS Glasshouse (1991); Ghost Train (1995); Downriver (2001); Inferno (2006), his verse version of Dante’s Inferno; and The Drowned Book (2007). The latter won the 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize. Ghost Train, Downriver and The Drowned Book have all won the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year), making Sean O’Brien the only poet to have won this prize more than once. His essays have been collected in The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British and Irish Poetry and he was editor of The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland After 1945. He has translated Aristophanes’The Birds for the National Theatre, and dramatised novels for broadcast as BBC Radio 4 Classic Serials, including Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (2004) and Graham Greene’s Ministry of Fear(2006). His first collection of short fiction The Silence Room was published by Comma Press in 2009.
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