DEATH OF A SHOWGIRL
Book ID/图书代码： 04560012B56968
English Summary/英文概要： A beautiful teenage girl, Simona Biondi, has gone missing from her home in the Italian capital. Castagnetti, the private detective hired by her parents, trawls the streets of Rome, finding himself drawn into the dark, erotic world of a TV empire belonging to a media mogul turned politician called Mario Di Angelo.
He unearths a murky world in which nubile young women, desperate for stardom, are prepared to do anything to get a break; in which powerful men are happy to exploit that desperation in order to make money and make love.
Castagnetti discovers that Anna Sartori, a young woman on the fringes of the Di Angelo empire, went missing almost twenty years ago. Anna Sartori’s best friend, he finds out, was Simona’s sister.
This is a world, Castagnetti realises, where secrets are like fireworks: you don’t see them until they explode.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Simona Biondi是一个长相甜美的少女。她生活在意大利的首都罗马。不久前，她在去购物的路上神秘失踪了。她的父母雇了一位私家侦探，Castagnetti，来调查Simona的下落。Castagnetti走街串巷，搜寻了罗马的每一条街道， 不知不觉中，他发现自己竟然被卷入了一个暗无天日、充满情欲的电视帝国世界，这个世界是由一个叫做Mario Di
Angelo的人一手掌控的。他之前是传媒大亨，而现在却是一名叱咤风云的政客。
他发现这里是一个糜烂的世界，这里都是一些性感的年轻女性，她们渴望成为耀眼的明星，为了一夜成名不惜付出任何代价；在这种情况下，有权势的男人乐于利用她们渴望成名的迫切心理去赚钱并且与这些女性发生关系。
Castagnetti发现一名叫作Anna Sartori的年轻女性正游走在Di Angelo帝国的边缘，她已失踪了近20年的时间。他发现，原来Anna Sartori最好的朋友是Simona的姐姐。
Castagnetti意识到这个世界里隐藏的秘密就像烟火：在它们爆炸之前，你永远不会看见它们。(Susie)
Awards/获奖情况：“本书描绘了意大利人甜蜜生活中的腐败问题。”A restrained exercise in investigation that opens up the "dark heart" of corruption within "La Dolce Vita" with surgical precision. (Eurocrime.co.uk)
About the Author/作者介绍： Tobias Jones是一位英国作家兼记者。他毕业于牛津大学的耶稣学院，之后在《伦敦书评》和《星期日独立报》这两家报社工作。他于1999年搬到了意大利的帕尔玛。他最著名的小说是《意大利的黑暗之心》，本书着重描写了意大利的社会生活。现在他与他的意大利籍妻子和两个年幼的女儿一起在布里斯托尔（英国西部的港口城市）生活。在2006年的9月，他荣获“英国作家协会奖”。Tobias Jones is a British author and journalist. Educated at Jesus College, Oxford he worked at the London Review of Books and the Independent on Sunday. He moved to Parma in Italy in 1999. He is best known for the book he wrote about Italy, The Dark Heart of Italy. He now lives in Bristol with Italian wife and two young daughters. In September 2006 he captained England in the writers’ world cup.
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