TOBY’S ROOM
Book ID/图书代码： 00200012B54604
English Summary/英文概要： Pat Barker, Booker prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy returns to WWI in this dark, compelling novel of human desire, wartime horror and the power of friendship. Toby and Elinor, brother and sister, friends and confidants, are sharers of a dark secret, carried from the summer of 1912 into the battlefields of France and wartime London in 1917.
When Toby is reported ’Missing, Believed Killed’, another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor’s world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor’s fellow student Kit Neville was there in the fox-hole when Toby met his fate, but has secrets of his own to keep. Enlisting the help of former lover Paul Tarrant, Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Only then can she finally close the door to Toby’s room.
Moving from the Slade School of Art to Queen Mary’s Hospital, where surgery and art intersect in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded, Toby’s Room is a riveting drama of identity, damage, intimacy and loss from the author of The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road . It is Pat Barker’s most powerful novel yet.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 帕特•巴克，著名布克奖获奖作家，著有《重生》三部曲。本书中作者将叙述背景拉回到一战时期的黑暗年代，全书以扣人心弦的笔触，交织展现出人类的欲望，对战争的恐惧以及友情的巨大力量。 托比和埃莉诺既是一对兄妹，也是亲密的伙伴。然而兄妹两共同背负着一个黑暗的秘密，这个产生于1912年夏天的秘密如影随行的跟着他们，不论是身处法国的战场还是身处1917年的战时伦敦。
当传来消息声称托比”下落不明，疑似被杀“时，埃莉诺仿佛感到秘密变得更为沉重，随之笼罩上她心头的还有另一阵疑惑：托比究竟是怎么被杀的？隐藏在背后的动机又是什么？据称托比遇害时，埃莉诺的一名同学吉特•奈维尔也在那个散兵坑里，然而他的闪烁其词显然证实了他也保有秘密。借助前情人保罗•塔伦特的帮助，埃莉诺决心查清事实的真相，因为唯有当一切都真相大白，她才能真正接受托比去世的消息，并从此关上那扇通往托比房间的门。
《托比的房间》是一场温馨生动的人生戏剧，从斯莱德美术学院到玛丽皇后医院，艺术与医术交织出战士们一张张疲惫不堪的生动脸庞，并在字里行间讲述了有关个体本身，创伤以及人类情感的种种羁绊与遗失。本书可以说是帕特•巴克继《门上的眼镜》和《灵魂之路》后迄今为止最为成功的一部作品。(DC)
Awards/获奖情况：☆Pat Barker was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
About the Author/作者介绍： “风格独特，才华横溢。。。。。。巴克大胆的深入探索并试图挖掘出人类行动背后所隐藏的永恒动机。”--《星期日邮报》 “巴克维持着其一贯简明利落的风格，并毫不畏惧地追询人类的起源于存在的意义。”--《先驱者》
“对于艺术，爱与战争的永恒冲突，巴克总有其异于常人的独到见解。”--玛利亚•克莱尔
“巴克在写作时总是保持着一颗柔软的心，然而她的温柔并没有使她失去一直以来的深度，她依旧充满了大胆的冒险精神，敢于放弃那些平坦的道路而选择另一种崎岖前去探索。”---《周末独立报》
帕特•巴克，生于1943年，著有久负盛名的《重生》三部曲，并被拍摄为同名电影，其《门上的眼镜》赢得《卫报》小说奖，《灵魂之路》获得布克奖。她的近期作品包括小说《另一个世界》《穿越国界》《双影生活》以及《生活课堂》，作者现居达勒姆。
’A brilliant stylist . . . Barker delves unflinchingly into the enduring mysteries of human motivation’ Sunday Telegraph
’Barker is a writer of crispness and clarity and an unflinching seeker of the germ of what it means to be human’ The Herald
’Barker is brilliant on the conflicts between art, love and war’ Marie Claire
’Barker writes . . . with great tenderness and insight, and a daring to forgo simple resolutions’ Independent on Sunday
Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration, which was made into a film of the same name, The Eye in the Door, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize. She is also the author of the more recent novels Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision and Life Class. She lives in Durham.
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