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上传日期:2012-8-24 0:00:00

THE FORRESTS

Book ID/图书代码: 11701212B56525

English Summary/英文概要: Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune.

Through the wilderness of a commune, to falling in love, to early marriage and motherhood, from the glorious anguish of parenting to the loss of everything worked for and the unexpected return of love, Dorothy is swept along by time. Her family looms and recedes; revelations come to light; death changes everything, but somehow life remains as potent as it ever was, and the joy in just being won’t let her go.

In a narrative that shifts and moves, growing as wild as the characters, The Forrests is an extraordinary literary achievement. A novel that sings with colour and memory, it speaks of family and time, dysfunction, ageing and loneliness, about heat, youth, and how life can change if ’you’re lucky enough to be around for it’.

Chinese Summary/中文概要:
這是一部融合了伍爾夫、勃朗特和佛洛德的心理分析法為一體的家族小說。福利斯特一家由無所作為的弗蘭克,他悲苦的妻子Lee,他們的四個孩子以及浪子丹尼爾。這個家庭曾經輝煌一時,但慢慢衰弱,縮小,幸福的脆弱、生命的悲苦和堅強逐漸顯露出來。

桃樂西•福里斯特現在只能活在周圍的感官世界中,頭腦中時不時閃現過往的片段:

7歲時,她那不開化的守舊家庭從紐約搬到奧克蘭廣闊的天地;在這個荒野自然中,Dot還是孩子,他們眼中的世界還是美麗的。後來,她戀愛了,和Eve搶丹尼爾,但丹尼爾的負心讓兩個女人認識到自己的欲望帶來的傷害最重!結婚生子後,她忍受著人父母的痛苦,。不久,愛人又出乎意料地失而復得。她回憶著家庭的興衰,思考著自己的內在情感和不幸。

《福利斯特一家》是一部絕妙的文學作品,描述方式靈活多變,人物野性自然,是一部隨著色彩和記憶歌唱的小說,訴說著家庭、時間、扭曲的關係、衰老、寂寞,也講述著熱情、年輕和生命的變換。

要給這個故事定個主題的話,那就是內心世界的力量。《福利斯特一家》更突出了女人內心世界所能提供的寬慰和救贖。Dot是個在自己的思維世界中瘋狂暴走的女人。就像伍爾夫的《畫家》一樣,她時而消極沮喪。她對別人的拒絕就如創意的自我表達般糾結。無論如何,她的內心世界是豐富的。(Celia)

Awards/获奖情况:Rights sold: UK: Bloomsbury (pub May 2012), US: Bloomsbury USA

“時而有趣、時而傷痛、但全都迷人。”——《獨立報周日版》

“Perkins是一位傑出的作家,每個人都該細細品味《福利斯特一家》”——《星期日泰晤士報》

“《福利斯特一家》創造了一種有趣的風格。你讀這本小說的時候,若是看得太細,便體會不到真正的閱讀感受,你只能體味語言的獨特滋味。隨著故事慢慢推進,會有更多的方面展現在你面前,你會有一種體味印象主義化作的感覺。”——《泰晤士報》

“我很想將這本書塞進我朋友的包裡。那些不喜歡經驗主義小說的讀者值得讀這本《福利斯特一家》。閱讀時,你就像在看一本陌生人的相冊,慢慢地,你就能體味出迷人的情懷。” ——《每日郵報》

“Perkins的這本《福利斯特一家》內容豐富,像是在讀20個短篇故事似的。Perkins的語言很簡約,暗藏著隱喻。要我形容《福利斯特一家》,它就像彩色的毛毯,每一頁都有不同的風景,細細展現體現家族價值和故事通感藝術的細節。”——《金融時報》

Review

’Perkins is an extraordinary writer ... The Forrests is a novel to be savoured’ -- Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times

’Funny, painful and utterly mesmerising’ -- Independent on Sunday

’The novel I would most like to press into my friends’ suitcases this summer ... kept me up reading late into the night’ -- Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph

’Word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph this book accelerates into brilliance ... remarkable’ --Tom Sutcliffe, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review

About the Author/作者介绍: Emily Perkins的第一本作品集《NOT HER REAL NAME AND OTHER STORIES》獲得英國傑佛瑞•費伯紀念獎、新西蘭蒙大拿新人首本小說獎。1997年,她編撰了《THE PICNIC VIRGIN》新西蘭新型文學詩集。艾米麗的小說《LEAVE BEFORE YOU GO》《THE NEW GIRL》《NOVEL ABOUT MY WIFE》已經熱銷國際各國。《NOVEL ABOUT MY WIFE》榮獲2009年美國信徒圖書獎和新西蘭書展蒙大拿小說獎章。

Emily Perkins is the author of Not Her Real Name, a collection of short stories which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the novels Leave Before You Go, The New Girl and, most recently, Novel About My Wife, winner of the Believer Award. Emily Perkins lives in New Zealand.

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