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Book ID/图书代码： 11701212B57284
English Summary/英文概要： A new novel by an author who won the 2003 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the 2004 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the 2008 Orange Prize.
Sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her mother and three ancient relatives in a tiny Hungarian enclave in West London. Imprisoned by bizarre rituals and expectations, by her family’s embarrassing accents and their fierce Hungarian pride, she knows she must escape. However, the place she runs to – Combe Abbey, a traditional English public school – threatens to make her feel even more of an outsider.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 夏洛蒂.门德尔松于2003年获约翰•卢埃林里斯奖，2004年获萨默塞特•毛姆奖，并入围2008年度奥兰治奖。此次，她为读者带来了她全新的作品《几乎是英语》。
16岁的玛丽安和母亲以及三位祖辈住在伦敦西部一片很小的匈牙利飞地上。被可笑的传统，家人的期望，令人尴尬的家族口音和匈牙利人激进的骄傲感所束缚，玛丽安想逃离这一切。但是，她想象中的自由之地——库姆修道院，一所传统的英语公立学校，让她觉得自己只是个局外人。(XAT)
Awards/获奖情况：2013年布克奖入围作品
门德尔松的小说总能捕捉到人性中被隐藏的光辉。小说很有趣，是很棒的作品。——Viv Groskop，《观察者报》
2013 Booker Prize longlist
longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014 announced today:
"’Mendelson’s novels are perfectly balanced observations of human nature captured in all its hideous glories. As intelligent as it is funny, her writing is brilliant... A joy’ Viv Groskop, Observer" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author/作者介绍： 夏洛蒂.门德尔松于1972年出生在伦敦，后在牛津长大。她在《卫报》、《泰晤士报文学增刊》、《星期天独立报》、《观察者报》等期刊报纸上发表文章并做些文学评论。
夏洛蒂的第一篇短篇故事《血糖》被发表在《新作7》上，并在广播频道4播放过2次。她的第一本小说《三色堇》（2001年）大部分是在午休时间创作的。
她的第二本小说《耶路撒冷的女儿们》被授予了约翰•卢埃林里斯奖和萨默塞特•毛姆奖，入围星期日泰晤士报年度青年作家奖。夏洛特还获得伦敦作家协会新人奖和K.布伦德尔信任奖，并入围杰弗里•费伯纪念奖。
夏洛蒂的第三部小说《那时我们糟透了》于2007年5月出版，入围2008年度奥兰治宽带奖。她还被选为水石书店25位最具潜力作家之一。
CHARLOTTE MENDELSON was born in London in 1972 and grew up in Oxford. She has written and reviewed for the Guardian, the TLS, the Independent on Sunday, the Observer and elsewhere. She lives in London.
Charlotte’s first short story, ‘Blood Sugar’, was published in New Writing 7 and twice broadcast on Radio 4. Her first novel, LOVE IN IDLENESS [2001], was largely written in her lunch breaks at work.
For DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM [2003], her second novel, she was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award, and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Charlotte also received the London Arts New London Writers’ Award and a K. Blundell Trust Award, and was shortlisted for Le Prince Maurice Roman d’Amour Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
Her third novel, WHEN WE WERE BAD, was published in May 2007, and was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008. She was also chosen as one of Waterstone’s 25 authors of the future.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights sold: UK: Mantle (pub August 2013); Czech Rep: Mlada Fronta; Hungary: Libri; Russia: Eksmo
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