THE COLDEST NIGHT: A NOVEL OF LOVE AND WAR

Book ID/图书代码： 00342512B53830

English Summary/英文概要： Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly consumes him. But when young Mercy’s disapproving father threatens Henry’s life, Henry runs as far as he can—to the other side of the world.

The time is 1950, and the Korean War hangs in the balance. Descended from a long line of soldiers, Henry enlists in the marines and arrives in Korea on the eve of the brutal seventeen-day battle of the Chosin Reservoir—the turning point of the war—completely unprepared for the forbidding Korean landscape and the unimaginable circumstances of a war well beyond the scope of anything his ancestors ever faced. But the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far.

Robert Olmstead’s riveting new novel is not only a passionate story of love and war, it is a timeless story of soldiers coming home to a country with little regard for, and even less knowledge of, what they’ve confronted. Through his hero, Olmstead reveals an unspoken truth about combat: that for many men, the experience of war is the most enlivening, electric, and extraordinary experience of their lives.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 17岁那年，亨利•查尔兹曾全身心投入过一场惊世骇俗的疯狂爱恋之中，然而姑娘莫熙的父亲对他们的恋情百般阻挠，甚至以亨利的生命相威胁，失落无奈的亨利只有远赴他乡，逃往世界的彼端以治疗情伤。

1950年，朝鲜战争的号角刚刚吹响，胜负悬而未决，经历了漫长的入伍等待后，亨利加入了海军，那时正进行着长达17天的残酷的长津水库之战，而亨利便是在战争毫无预警的发生转折当夜抵达了朝鲜---朝鲜完全陌生的恶劣环境和突发的战况让亨利措手不及，这场战争彻底超乎了亨利以往的认知与想象。最可怕的是战争给亨利留下了超越时空界限的伤痕，虽然战争早已结束，但返乡的亨利却面临着更为巨大的挑战---战争的阴影如影随形。

罗伯特•奥尔姆斯戴德的全新佳作《冷夜》不仅是一部动人心魄的关于爱与战争的故事，更是一部超越时代意义的作品，无论何时何地，对于那些经历了海外战争的归乡战士们，人们往往漠不关心，更可怕的是没有人意识到这些战士是带着何种心情与骇人的经历，历经艰难险阻才回到祖国。作者通过故事的主人公向我们淡然道来人类战争隐含的真相：对于多数战士而言，亲历一场战争将成为他们毕生最鲜活的一场记忆，看似平凡，却充满了不为人知的惊险与刺激。(DC)

Awards/获奖情况： THE COLDEST NIGHT is one of ten works of fiction selected as Amazon’s “Best Books of the Year So Far”!: http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=s9_dnav_bw_ir12_b?_encoding=UTF8&node=5522568011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=0AR3ZJRJB0JPBA5G3NFH&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1374022402&pf_rd_i=3003015011-更新评论-周芸2012-6-26
“Working-class boy meets rich girl, and forbidden passion flares, in this thought-provoking, unabashedly romantic novel set in the 1950s.”---O, The Oprah Magazine

“Olmstead writes with ferocious economy . . . The book’s continuities are a deep pleasure: a near-mystical regard for horses, for mothers, for weapons—all wrapped in a kind of elegiac masculinity. Olmstead has some of the Cormac McCarthy penchant for mixing tenderness into his terror.”---The Cleveland Plain Dealer

“An unflinchingly realistic, yet artistic, condemnation of war. Disparate backgrounds and desperate times are a seductive combination. Olmstead makes good use of them, and what ultimately distinguishes his exceptional work from more pedestrian literature is his elegant prose. ‘Prosody’—the study of the art of versification—is a word that Henry may not have recognized, but readers of The Coldest Night will not have to consult a dictionary for its definition; Olmstead’s writing demonstrates its meaning perfectly.”---BookBrowse

“[An] elegiac, gritty coming-of-age novel . . . Despite the narrative’s darkening vision (“The Lord is a man of war,” says Henry), enough redemption rescues Olmstead’s powerful, desolate, and well-crafted novel from becoming oppressively bleak.”---Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Olmstead (Coal Black Horse) has a spare, direct style that is most effective in the brilliant, engrossing combat descriptions and ironic marine banter.”---Library Journal

“It’s extremes that rivet us in Olmstead’s searing seventh novel: the heaven of first love; the hell of the battlefield . . . Olmstead’s extraordinary language gives us new eyes. An exceptionally fine study of love, war and the double-edged role of memory, which can both sustain and destroy. Prize-winning material.”---Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“Olmstead employs different authorial voices to shape the story. At times the tone is mythic, at times surreal . . . The Coldest Night is powerful, and often beautiful, storytelling.”---Booklist

About the Author/作者介绍： 罗伯特•奥尔姆斯戴德著有七部作品，其中《炭黑驹》曾荣获哈特兰德小说奖与俄亥俄娜奖，并成为美国独立书商协会选书与边界选书的首选；此外，《远方的明星》荣获美国西部作家鞭策奖，同时作者还获有古根汉基金奖以及NEA补助奖，罗伯特现于俄亥俄卫斯理大学担任教授。
Robert Olmstead is the author of seven previous books. Coal Black Horse was the winner of the Heartland Prize for Fiction and the Ohioana Award, and was a #1 Book Sense pick and a Border’s Discover pick. Far Bright Star was the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant, and is a professor at Ohio Wesleyan University.

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