PRINCE OF THE WORLD

Book ID/图书代码： 12070012B53005

English Summary/英文概要： In these six stories, Christopher Howard reasserts his talent for evoking the gritty and the apocalyptic with poetic grace. “Intelligent People Speaking Reasonably” follows two Iraq vets adrift in the civilian life of the Pacific Northwest. “Space is Kindness” witnesses the unexpected death of Mis-souri Governor Mel Carnahan from the perspective of a local reporter and a photographer rushing to the crash-site in 2000. “Darkstar” takes place in Dublin and follows a young outcast named Sailor through grimy, pre-Apocalyptic streets as he tries to find the soulmate he hasn’t seen since childhood. “Son of Man” tells the story of the Manson family from the per -spective of one of its members. “How to Make Millions in the Oil Market” contemplates the absurdity of war from the point of view of a Blackwater contractor first in the chaos of Iraq and later in the relative peace of the US. The epic title story “Prince of the World” follows a mixed-race orphan named Labelle as he wanders north along the Mississippi, ultimately caught in the infamous Starved Rock Massacre in Howard’s home state of Illinois.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在这六个故事里，克里斯托弗•霍华德再次证明了他的才华，他用诗歌的优雅唤醒了在末日前的坚毅。“聪明的人说话合理”讲述的是两个伊拉克兽医漂泊在太平洋西北地区的平民生活。“仁慈空间”从梅尔•卡纳汉这个当地记者和摄影师的角度见证了2000年 Mis-souri州长的意外死亡。“暗星”发生在都柏林，讲述了一个名叫水手的年轻弃儿，试图穿过肮脏的街道，寻找从童年时代起就没有看到过的灵魂伴侣。“人子”从每个家庭成员的角度讲述了曼森家族的故事。“如何在石油市场成为百万富翁”通过黑水公司首先在伊拉克，后来到相对和平的美国的角度，思考了战争的荒谬。标题故事“王子的世界”讲述了一个名叫拉贝尔的混血孤儿飘荡在密西西比河北部，最终陷入霍华德的家乡伊利诺伊州臭名昭著的饥饿大屠杀。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：对《乌兰巴托茶》的赞扬 :

“在他的最佳状态，霍华德可以成为一个真正的催眠作家……让读者对他的下一部作品急不可待。”——波士顿环球报

“在霍华德惊人的处女座中展现了年轻人狂热的理想主义……紧凑诙谐的写作”——出版者周刊

“这是一本成功的小说，有着敏锐的氛围和描述。”——图书馆杂志

柯克斯评论：

在“暗星”中，霍华德的想象力和对死亡的痴迷表露无遗，末日前的故事设定在阴湿的，反乌托邦的都柏林。人类在等着地球毁灭和伽玛射线爆发。书中丰富的描述着“渔网在夕阳下背着光，闪闪发光的水珠沿着错综复杂的网线轻轻抖动”——一个叫水手的年轻弃儿几乎快饿死了，变成半盲，只能从利兹那里得到爱、安慰和理解，利兹只有一支腿，她的穿着明显象征着有些东西被扭曲了。“聪明的人说话合理”和“如何在石油市场上成为百万富翁”分别探讨了焦虑、损失和创伤。在第一部分，查韦斯和贝里曼，两个受伤的伊拉克战争老兵退役前考虑他们的队长死亡。第二部分,合同保安在伊拉克战火中幸存，这让他从过去离婚的痛苦中走出，重新投入年轻大学生的怀抱。“仁慈空间”讲述的是一个疲惫的记者访问了一起坠机事故，其中一个州长死了。他阴雨连绵的旅程变得愤世嫉俗，倦怠，并无法认同同伴的虚无主义。“人子”是这本书里的第四个故事，沉默寡言的越战老兵Buzz，在凶残的曼森家族当机械师。Buzz是一个缉毒侦探，一封从变幻不定的政府部门发出的文件显示，曼森是一次实验中消失菌种的无意中的产物。“王子的世界”里收集的是麦卡锡—血色—子午线—残酷的美国边境故事。1818年，年轻的混血儿拉贝尔是一个洗刷工人、乞丐和小偷，母亲死后，他从新奥尔良向北跋涉。他遇到混乱，谋杀，被暴民掌控的城市里的私刑，猎人，流氓Shawnees，船夫和海盗，最后他被卷进无情、野蛮的部落战争。——“红马甲……四肢以不可能的姿势错位。”

Howard’s imaginative and mortality obsessed collection opens with “Darkstar,” a pre-apocalyptic tale set in dank, dystopian Dublin. Mankind awaits a star’s Earth-destroying gamma-ray burst. In lushly descriptive writing—“The web was backlit by the sunset and beads of moisture glistened along its quivering, intricate symmetry”—a young man called Sailor scrounges, nearly starves, becomes half-blind and finds love, solace and understanding only from Liz, a leg-brace–wearing girl whose appliance is surely symbolic of something twisted. “Intelligent People Speaking Reasonably” and “How to Make Millions in the Oil Market” separately explore angst, loss and PTSD. In the first, Chavez and Berryman, wounded Iraqi War veterans awaiting discharge, contemplate their captain’s death. In the second, a contract security guard survives a firefight in Iraq, the culmination of which haunts him past divorce and into the arms of a young college student. “Space Is Kindness” follows a jaded reporter as he visits the plane crash site where a state governor has died. His rain-soaked journey becomes a trip through cynicism and ennui shadowed against his companion’s nihilism. “Son of Man,” fourth in the collection, finds taciturn Vietnam veteran Buzz working as a mechanic for the murderous Manson family. Buzz is a narc, a missive from a phantasmagoric government agency that realizes Charles Manson is the unintended spawn of an experiment gone rogue. The collection concludes with “Prince of the World,” a McCarthy-Blood-Meridian-brutal American frontier tale. In 1818, Labelle, half-breed “manchild” of “a scrubber of floors and a beggar and pickpocket and other things,” treks north from New Orleans after his mother’s death. He encounters mayhem, murder, lynchings at the hands of city mobs, trappers, rogue Shawnees, boatmen and river pirates before he’s finally caught up in a merciless, barbarous tribal war— “leaking red waistcoats…limbs mangled in impossible poses.”

About the Author/作者介绍： 克里斯托弗•霍华德在伊利诺伊州长大，20世纪90年代中后期作为一个中途的和平部队成员在蒙古待过几个月。他的短篇小说《如何在石油市场上成为百万富翁》发表在 Mc Sweeney，并在2008年被美国国家杂志奖提名。除了乔迪•皮考特，他是2001年1月选择用一个短小的故事在亚马逊推出单品小说的两位作家之一。2011年，他的首部作品《乌兰托巴的茶》由七个故事出版社出版。

CHRISTOPHER HOWARD grew up in Illinois and spent a few months of an aborted Peace Corps Sojourn in Mongolia in the late 1990s. His short story, “How to Make Millions in the Oil Market,” published in Mc Sweeney’s was nominated for the 2008 National Magazine Award in Fiction. Along with Jodi Picoult, he was one of two authors selected to provide a short story for the launch of Amazon Singles in January 2011. His first novel, Tea of Ulanaataar was published by Seven Stories Press in 2011.

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