PIG IRON
Book ID/图书代码： 06945012B54429
English Summary/英文概要： ohn-John wants to escape his past. But the legacy of brutality left by his bare-knuckle boxer father, King of the Gypsies, Mac Wisdom, overshadows his life. His new job as an ice cream man should offer freedom, but instead pulls him into the dark recesses of a northern town where his family name is mud.When he attempts to trade prejudice, parole officers and local gangs for his `green cathedral’ - the rural landscape in which he seeks solace - Mac’s rise and bloody downfall threatens to engulf John-John’s present. Pig Iron is the story of a traveller who hasn’t travelled; a young man fighting for his surname and his very survival.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 约翰-约翰想要忘掉他的过去。但是他有一位不带手套的拳击手父亲—麦克.威斯登，人称“吉普赛之王”。而父亲的残忍无度令他的生活蒙上了一层阴影。他找到一份卖冰激凌的新工作，这份工作本该给他带来自由，但却反将他拉回到一个北部小镇的黑暗角落里，在那他的姓氏为人所唾弃。 他努力想要摆脱人们的偏见、假释官的蔑视以及当地黑帮的骚扰，渴望享受“绿色大教堂”这片田园风光带给他的心灵慰藉。然而，迈克的出现和血腥的落败威胁着约翰-约翰，他的现有生活极有可能遭到吞噬。《生铁》讲述了一个不曾踏上旅途的旅行者的故事—一个年轻人为了他的姓氏和生存而斗争的故事。(XMM)
Awards/获奖情况：“这部作品毫不畏缩地揭露了玛格丽特.撒切尔遗留下来的问题。她那些惨无人道的手段对两种人造成最巨大的打击—旅游者和早期英格兰东北部煤矿开采区中的工人。整整两代人都拒绝承认那样一种社区是人类社会的一部分，因为他们生活的地方实际上就是个地狱般的贫民窟。他们与贫困相依为命，沉溺于摧残意志的毒品，被像铁娘子一样凶残的恶棍统治着。由于恐惧，他们变得凶残。于此，唯一的拯救方法存在于外部世界，存在于大地那永恒而又古老的美丽中和大自然母亲的力量里。本杰明.梅尔斯用明白易懂的地方方言来叙述，从残酷的现实中发掘美丽。”—卡西.昂斯沃斯，《歌颂者》和《Bad Penny Blues》的作者。 "This work is an unflinching testament to Margaret Thatcher’s legacy, dealing as it does with two groups of people who took the brunt of her viciousness - travellers and the former coalmining communities of the North East. Two generations denied any such thing as society, existing instead in the concrete circles of sink estate hell; succoured by poverty, weaned on mind-erasing drugs, ruled over by bullies in the Iron Lady’s image and rendered vicious by fear. The only redemption here lies in what lies outside, the eternal, ancient beauty of the land and the power of Mother Nature, rendered in Ben Myers’ luminous vernacular prose, that makes beauty yet from the brutal truth."- Cathi Unsworth, author of The Singer and Bad Penny Blues.
About the Author/作者介绍： 本杰明.梅尔斯还写了一部最畅销的小说《理查德》。
本.梅尔斯还出版了一些非小说的书籍和诗歌，这些都被翻译成多国语言。
他的作品刊登在许多刊物上，包括《卫报》、《Mojo》、《闲暇》、《3：AM》、《新音乐快报》。他于1976年出生于达勒姆。 Benjamin Myers is the author of the bestselling novel Richard.
As Ben Myers he has also published works of non-fiction and poetry, translated into seven languages.
His writing has appeared in numerous publications including The Guardian, Mojo, Time Out, 3:AM, Caught By The River and NME. He was born in Durham in 1976.
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