LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE
Book ID/图书代码： 11980512B56506
English Summary/英文概要： From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again takes ordinary lives and dissects their ironies, injustices and pleasures with her humane eye and wry sense of humour. In ‘Laminex and Mirrors’, a young woman working as a cleaner in a hospital helps an elderly patient defy doctor’s orders. In ‘Cross-Country’, a jilted lover manages to misinterpret her ex’s new life. And in ‘Ashes’, a son accompanies his mother on a journey to scatter his father’s remains, while lifelong resentments simmer in the background. Cate Kennedy’s poignant short stories find the beauty and tragedy in illness and mortality, life and love.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Cate Kennedy此次新的短篇小說集《Like a House on Fire》是要超過受到廣泛讚譽的《Dark Roots》。本書中，Kennedy一如既往地關注平常人的生活，她諷刺幽默的眼睛和溫柔的人性關懷反映著平常人的快樂、空虛、嘲弄和正義公平。在《Laminex and Mirrors》中，在醫院做清潔工的年輕女人幫著老年病人反抗醫生的命令，在《Cross-Country》中，被棄的戀人想盡辦法給她前夫的新生活找茬。《Ashes》中，兒子陪著母親將父親的遺體分散在世界各地，其實他們內心一直醞釀著仇恨。Cate Kennedy悲傷的短篇小說從充滿病痛和死亡的常人生活中挖掘著美、愛和生命的意義。(Celia)
Awards/获奖情况：獲獎情況: shortlisted for The Stella Prize which is a new literary prize celebrating great books by Australian women
long listed for the 2013 ALS Gold Medal “Cate Kennedy的怒氣像是一把清理濁世的火。她的故事蘊含著仁慈，因每個小苦而同情。她柔情、真實、充滿積極生活的正能量。”
——McPhee Gribble 出版社創立者，澳大利亞藝術理事會主席Hilary McPhee
“世界上最著名的短篇小說家之一。”
——澳大利亞沃克利獎（Walkley Award）得主Robert Drewe
“Cate Kennedy是一位大師，她用溫柔的文字冷靜、精細地刻寫著現實。”
——國際IMPAC都柏林文學獎得主David Malouf
‘Cate Kennedy’s anger is a cleansing fire. Her stories ache with small mercies — tender, life-affirming, real.’- Hilary McPhee
‘One of the world’s finest short-story writers’- Robert Drewe
‘Cate Kennedy writes with the warm understanding and cold precision of a master.’- David Malouf
About the Author/作者介绍： Cate Kennedy的長篇小說《The World Beneath》受到廣泛讚譽，榮獲2010新南威爾斯總理讀者票選文學獎(People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2010)。其實，Cate的短篇小說也名聲極大，可說是澳洲文壇短篇小說獲獎的常勝作者，從1994起到2004年，每年都因短篇小說得獎。2000、2001年兩次獲得澳大利亞時代短篇小說競賽（The Age short story competition）第一名。短篇小說《Dark Roots》獲得澳大利亞昆士蘭總理讀者選票文學獎Steele Rudd獎和澳大利亞文學金獎，此作品也登載於紐約雜誌。其他獲獎小說包括《Sing and Don’t Cry》，詩集《Joyflight》《Signs of Other Fires》和《The Taste of River Water》均榮獲2011年維多利亞總督文學獎詩歌獎。
Cate Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2010. She is an award-winning short-story writer whose work has been published widely. Her first collection, Dark Roots, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. She is also the author of a travel memoir, Sing, and Don’t Cry, and the poetry collections Joyflight, Signs of Other Fires and The Taste of River Water, which won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2011. She lives on a secluded bend of the Broken River in north-east Victoria.
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