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THE RED THREAD: A CHINESE TALE OF LOVE AND FATE IN 1830S SINGAPORE

Book ID/图书代码: 09432512B55667

English Summary/英文概要: Like Chinese silk, The Red Thread is, by turns, gentle and strong, exploring a love that breaks through the divide of race and culture, a love that is both deeply physical and a marriage of souls. Set against the backdrop of 1830s Singapore where piracy, crime, triads and tigers are commonplace, this cultural romance follows the struggle of two lovers: Zhen, once the loweliest of Chinese coolies and triad member, later chosen to marry into a Peranakan family of Baba Chinese merchants; and Charlotte, an 18-year-old Scots girl and sister of Singapore’s Head of Police. Two cultures bound together by the invisible threads of fate yet separated by cultural diversity.

By incorporating real figures from Singapore’s historical past, Dawn Farnham brings to life the heady atmosphere of Old Singapore, where exotic beliefs and customs clash and jostle in the struggle to make a life and create mutual understanding between peoples from different worlds.

Chinese Summary/中文概要: 红色旅程像中国的丝绸一样,温婉、强大,它们轮流探索一种突破种族和文化的爱,这种爱深深植入身体和婚姻的灵魂中。19世纪30年代的新加坡,盗版、犯罪、黑帮和老虎是随处可见的,这种文化氛围追寻两个情人的争斗:Zhen,曾经是中国最底层的苦力和三合会成员,之后选择嫁入了一个中国商人的家庭;还有夏洛蒂,一个18岁的苏格兰女孩,新加坡主管警察的妹妹。这两种文化被文化多样性分离的命运无形地交织在一起。

通过统计新加坡历史的真实数字,Dawn Farnham给生活带来了古老新加坡令人兴奋地气氛,那里有来自世界各地的人们在追求生存和相互理解过程中的信仰和习俗冲突。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况:《红色旅程》是一部充满激情的书—它将同时给读者带来骚动和阴谋——奈杰尔大麦,畅销书《史丹福•莱佛士的脚步》和《流氓掠袭者》的作者

当19世纪30年代夏洛蒂的旅程从她的家乡马达加斯加到遥远的异域—新加波,她几乎没有意识到她的新生活将使多么地不同。她的哥哥罗伯特刚被人命为当地警察部队的负责人,她的社会地位以及她无限的好奇心以及强大的智商,让她与很多民族、宗教和政治信仰不同的男人女人产生了友谊,以及他们之间所发生的故事。Farnham的首部作品是苦乐参半,令人深思的,一个会让身体和心灵充满丰富细致景观的舒适探索。多个提倡者,多个角度,包括东欧和西欧,精心地描述,给读者提供一个奇思异想的时间和一个充满神秘和繁荣诗歌的地点。——书单(见《美国图书馆协会》)

夏洛特和罗伯特是兄妹孤儿,现在是成年人,最初他们离开马达加斯加到苏格兰,19世纪30年代居住在新加坡。罗伯特有幸担任警察负责人,并去接夏洛蒂,他知道他们的未来就在于这种奇异并且迅速发展繁荣的土地上。夏洛蒂很快爱上了这座她认为“如神话般宝石一样多样化”的城镇。外国字符是耐人寻味的,比如爱尔兰人建筑师科尔曼,他将这座城镇大部分地区打造成为坚固、美观的建筑风格,这座城镇以自己天然的形状和到处迷人的鲜花足以媲美欧洲城市。还有一小群妻子和情人,在神秘的亚洲背景下创造了一个与世隔绝的情谊,此情谊在危急关头无关男人和野兽。

About the Author/作者介绍: Dawn Farnham1949年出生在英格兰的朴茨茅斯。他的父母在她两岁时移居到澳大利亚西部的佩思。她在土著区长大,经常跟她的朋友游荡在浓密的郊区以及去海滩。在六十年代,17岁的她,像许多其他的澳大利亚年轻人一样,离开澳大利亚登上了去伦敦的船,在漂泊的岁月中,她嫁给了在旅途中认识的丈夫,移居到巴黎,在大众甲壳虫上环游欧洲时学习了法语和许多其他东西。作为一个外国记者,他的丈夫被派遣到异国,他们在80年代和90年代中住在中国香港、朝鲜和日本。在这段时间中,她生了两个女儿,并且教她们英语;回到伦敦后,她又重回学校,在日本的东方和非洲研究院学校获得学士学位,在国王学院取得硕士学位。她和他的丈夫现居新加坡。在这座欣欣向荣的港口城市,她找到了灵感,开始写作,发现了在过去充满色彩和漂泊生活中的特定乐趣。这是她的第一部小说。

Dawn Farnham was born in Portsmouth, England in 1949. Her parents emigrated to Perth, Western Australia when she was two. She grew up a sandgroper, barefoot and free, roaming the bushy suburbs and beaches with her friends. In the sixties she, like so many other young Aussies, left on a ship for London, aged 17. In the Swinging years she met and married her journalist husband and moved to Paris, learned French and lots of other things and travelled round Europe in a Volkswagen beetle. As a foreign correspondent, her husband was posted to exotic locations and they lived in China, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan in the eighties and nineties. During this time she raised two daughters and taught English. Back in London she went back to school, doing a B.A. in Japanese at The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and a Master’s Degree at Kings College. She and her husband now live in Singapore. It is in this thriving port city-state that she found her muse and began to write, finding particular pleasure in its colourful and often wild past. This is her first novel.

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