RED JOAN
Book ID/图书代码： 00200012B57457
English Summary/英文概要： Joan’s voice is almost a whisper. ’Nobody talked about what they did during the war. We all knew we weren’t allowed to.’
Joan Stanley has a secret.
She is a loving mother, a doting grandmother, and leads a quiet, unremarkable life in the suburbs. Then one morning there is a knock on the door, and suddenly the past she has been so keen to hide for the last fifty years threatens to overturn her comfortable world.
Cambridge University in 1937 is awash with ideas and idealists, yet unworldly Joan feels better suited to a science lecture and a cup of cocoa. But a chance meeting with the glamorous Russian-born Sonya and her charismatic cousin Leo blurs the edges of the things Joan thought she knew about the world, and about herself.
In the post-War world of smoke and mirrors, allegiance is a slippery thing. Working in a government ministry with access to top-secret information, Joan is suddenly faced with the most difficult question of all: what price would you pay to remain true to what you believe? Would you betray your country, your family, even the man you love?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 琼的声音几乎轻到听不到，“我们不能告诉别人在战争中做了什么，我们都知道这是不被允许的。”
琼.斯坦利有一个秘密。
她是个慈爱的母亲，疼爱孙辈的祖母，在乡间过着平静舒适的生活。但一天早上一阵敲门声打破了她原本安详的生活，她在过去50年中极力想要埋藏的过去就此浮出水面。
1937年的剑桥大学充满了理想主义者和各种新奇的点子，但琼更喜欢泡杯可可，听听科学讲座。但一次偶然的机会她遇见了俄罗斯姑娘索尼娅和她充满魅力的表哥里奥，他们似乎打破了琼对这个世界本来的理解，还有，对自身也有了新的解读。战后的世界，所有的标准都显得模糊不清，效忠也成了件可笑的事情。在政府工作使得琼有了接触国家最高机密的机会，也使得她陷入了两难的境地中：对你相信的事物忠诚需要付出多大的代价？你会背叛自己的国家吗？那家人呢？亦或是自己深爱的人呢？（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：“这本书会引发人们的深思，《战火中的琼》人物关系十分复杂，所以使得这个间谍游戏更加丰富可看。这部作品也必将有很深远的影响，我们保守的秘密是否值得，又是为了什么呢？”（凯特威尔士文艺评论）
“这是部很棒的间谍类惊悚小说，结局和罪魁祸首都是那么出乎意料，情节紧扣紧张，细节处理还有故事情节却很动人。”——Eithne Farry Marie Claire
“间谍类惊悚小说总是会给人重重惊喜。细节处理得很好。与布拉德利•曼宁同时代的读者读罢应深有共鸣。”——Andrzej Lukowski Metro
“如果你是William Boyd的拥趸，那么你也会喜欢这本书的。”——Viv Groskop Red
“这本书令人爱不释手。这是个有关琼的爱情，失去，背叛，友情和秘密的故事，以独特的视角解析一个人会在怎样的情况下选择背叛自己的国家。读完我们都会陷入沉思，在相同的情况下，我们的选择也可能会和琼的一样。”——书目
About the Author/作者介绍： Jennie Rooney1980年出生在利物浦，在剑桥大学攻读历史，后在法国教授英语，又至伦敦当律师。他的第一本小说《鲸鱼的内部》获得了易购图书俱乐部和“理查德与朱迪”新人奖，并入围哥斯达黎加最佳处女作奖项。她的第二部作品《坠落的反面》于2011年出版。Jennie Rooney was born in Liverpool in 1980. She read History at the University of Cambridge and taught English in France before moving to London to work as a lawyer. Her first novel, Inside the Whale, was a Richard and Judy debut choice, Tesco Book Club selection and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. Her second novel, The Opposite of Falling, was published in 2010.
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