THE ELEMENT-INTH IN GREEK

Book ID/图书代码： 10420012B53826

English Summary/英文概要： In a small holiday village on the coast of Crete, Ingrid Laurie is researching a biography of the neglected linguist Alice Kober, who laid the basis for the decipherment of the ancient Cretan script Linear B, but died too young to reap the rewards of her work. While Ingrid struggles to decipher the life of the enigmatic scholar, on the outskirts of the village local policeman Yiannis Stephanoudakis discovers a bizarre naked corpse covered in honey and dead bees. When their paths cross in the course of the investigation erotic sparks fly. Mingling detective fiction and biography, modern romance and prehistoric marriage ritual, Alison Fell probes the mysteries of love and language in this intricately-crafted, luminous novel.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在（希臘）克里特島海岸上的小村度假時，Ingrid Laurie正在研究一部被語言學家Alice Kober忽略的傳記，她虽為古代的克里特島的（古希臘的）B類線形文字奠定了基礎，但由於她英年早逝，而無法從中獲得研究成果。當Ingrid竭力破譯這位神秘學者的生活時，當地的警員 Yiannis Stephanoudakis發現了一具奇怪的裸屍覆蓋在蜂蜜和蜜蜂死屍當中。隨即伴隨他們在調查過程中遭遇的是激情。融合了偵探小說和自傳，現代浪漫和古老的結婚儀式的內容，Alison Fell在這部錯綜複雜的，獨特的小說中，探索了愛和語言的謎題。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：‘Ancient signs and symbols of sex and death re-erupt in a burning Greek landscape...a compelling chase through patterns of desire.’ Michèle Roberts

‘A triumph. A writer and poet of long experience and achievement, Fell marshalls her material impressively and delivers it in a distilled, take-no-prisoners voice that calls for the reader’s full attention and then rewards it. This is a mature, shrewd piece of work appealing simultaneously to head and heart. It may be Fell’s best book yet and certainly deserves to be her most successful. Orange Prize judges, take note.’ Elsbeth Linder, bookoxygen, May 2012 - http://bookoxygen.com/

‘Oh, the joy of reading something different from the rest of the pack. Fell’s odd but intriguing tale brings together Ingrid, researching the life of Greek scholar Alice Kober, and Greek cop Yiannis, hunting the killer of a man found naked, covered in honey and bees. A hint of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet here, too.’ Lesley McDowell, Glasgow Sunday Herald, July 2012

About the Author/作者介绍： Alison Fell生於1944年英國蘇格蘭南部舊郡的敦夫裡斯郡。她受教於敦夫裡斯學院和愛丁堡藝術學院。1962年她開始為《蘇格蘭雜誌》寫作，1970年搬至倫敦，在那裡她創立了女人街劇團，後來被稱為 ’荒誕劇團’。1998年她在東英吉利大學創辦了的語言系和美國研究寫作學會。她給成人和兒童出版了許多詩歌和小說，而他也是一位多產的作家，其中包括《排骨雜誌》。她曾是1991年小說《冰河》博多曼塔斯克紀念獎的共同得獎人，2002~03年他為設在倫敦大學學院創辦了皇家文學基金獎學金。《The Mistress of Lilliput/小人國的夫人》(1999年),和《Tricks of the Light/光的技巧》(2003年)，她他中年時期對於一種強大的愛的寫照。

Alison Fell was born in Dumfries, Scotland in 1944. She was educated at Dumfries Academy and Edinburgh Art College. She began writing for Scotland Magazine in 1962, and moved to London in 1970, where she co-founded the Woman’s Street Theatre Group, later known as ’Monstrous Regiment’. She held the School of English and American Studies Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in 1998. She has published poetry and fiction for both adults and children, and has written for a number of publications, including Spare Rib magazine. She was joint winner of the Boardman Tasker Memorial Prize for her novel Mer de Glace (1991), and held a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship for 2002-3 based at University College London. Other novels include The Pillow Book of the Lady Onogoro (1994), The Mistress of Lilliput (1999), and Tricks of the Light (2003), a powerful portrayal of love in middle age.

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