MERIVEL: A MAN OF HIS TIME

Book ID/图书代码： 12100012B55055

English Summary/英文概要： The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone. Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, loved for his ability to turn sorrow into laughter, now faces the agitations and anxieties of middle age. Questions crowd his mind: has he been a good father? Is he a fair master? Is he the King’s friend or the King’s slave?
In search of answers, Merivel sets off for the French court. But Versailles - all glitter in front and squalor behind - leaves Merivel in despair, until a chance encounter with Madame de Flamanville, a seductive Swiss botanist, allows him to dream of an honourable future.
But will that future ever be his? Back home at Bidnold Manor, his loyalty and medical skill are tested to their limits, while the captive bear he has brought back from France begins to cause unlooked-for havoc in his heart and on his estate.
With a cascade of lace at his neck and a laugh that can burst out of him in the midst of torment, Merivel is a uniquely brilliant creation, soulful, funny, outrageous and achingly sad. He is Everyman. His unmistakable, self-mocking voice speaks directly to us down the centuries.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这部故事背景设置于英格兰17世纪的最新历史小说，来自英国著名的橘子奖获奖作者罗斯•特瑞美。

王政复辟时代的浮尘岁月已与罗伯特•马利文渐行渐远，这位曾一度侍奉于英王查尔斯二世的医师和朝臣，如今正前往法国宫廷，打算为自己片寻一个全新的开始。但凡尔赛的宫廷生活，所有光鲜靓丽的背后却隐藏着肮脏的交易，留给他的只有无尽的落寞，直至他遇见弗拉芒威尔夫人，才又让他重新燃起了希望。

但这是他所想的美好未来吗？英格兰病重的国王急招马利文回宫，马利文的忠诚和医术将再度面临严峻的考验。(Sandy)

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王政復辟’—— 被禁欲的愛情
羅伯特•馬利文是一位醫科學生，他的到來，可以說是作為治療英王查理二世宮廷的鬱結頑症的一份禮物。由此馬利文獲得了貴族頭銜，以和國王的情婦西利亞女士的一段‘紙上’婚姻，換取了一處私邸，而國王只是暫時將這位情婦寄放在馬利文的官邸內。因此，國王嚴禁他與西利亞過份親近。馬利文為了博取王的歡心自然也不敢越雷池一步。

Surely one of the most versatile novelists writing today (Daily Express )
Vivid, original and always engaging (The Times )
Rose Tremain writes comedy that can break your heart (Literary Review )
Steps inside the mind of Sir Robert Merivel (Sunday Business Post )
Merivel is excellent company. Writing with a mimic’s ear for conversation, whimsical one moment, grave the next, Tremain has an underlying preoccupation here: the last third of live, love and loss, loneliness and vanity (Maggie Fergusson Intelligent Life )

About the Author/作者介绍： 小說家Rose Tremain (羅斯•特裡梅因)1943年生於倫敦。她畢業于索邦神學院和東英吉利大學,1988年-~1995年她曾在那裡她教授創意寫作。她的出版作品包括小說和短篇小說集，她還是許多的廣播和電視劇的作者，作品包括獲得過賈爾斯•庫珀獎的《臨避難所》，和由英國廣播公司第四電臺在2001年12月首播的《冬夜》。2000年她獲得東英吉利大學的文學博士榮譽獎。

羅斯•特裡梅因小說贏得過無數獎項，包括：年度惠特佈雷德小說獎（音樂和沉寂）；布萊克紀念獎和費米娜外國小說獎(神聖國度)；年度《周日快報》獎，天使文學獎，而她的最新之作《復原》入圍了布克獎，她為英國廣播公司撰寫的《臨時避難所》獲得了賈爾斯•庫珀獎。她的小說《色彩》，曾被遴選為橘子獎，並被英國《每日郵報》讀書會所推選。2007年6月，羅斯在英女王生日之際榮得二等爵士封號。

Rose Tremain’s bestselling novels have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music and Silence), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger (Sacred Country). Restoration, the first of her novels to feature Robert Merivel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in1989 and made into a film in 1995. Her short story, ’Moth’, was also filmed (as the award-winning Ricky) by François Ozon in 2009. Her most recent novel, Trespass, was a Richard and Judy Bookclub Choice. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007.She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

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