MR LYNCH’S HOLIDAY
Book ID/图书代码： 00200012B58290
English Summary/英文概要： Mr Lynch’s Holiday is the charming and comic new novel by the bestselling and prize-winning author of What Was Lost and The News Where You Are, Catherine O’Flynn.
’I’m looking forward to seeing you and Laura and getting my first taste of "abroad".’
Eamonn Lynch stares at the letter announcing the imminent arrival of his father, Dermot. His first thought is: I’ll make an excuse, I’ll put him off. But it is too late. Dermot is already here, in southern Spain, and soon he’ll discover that Eamonn lives in an unfinished building site; that Laura’s left him; and that it’ll be just the two of them, father and son, for two long, hot weeks.
Dermot doesn’t entirely recognise his son; how can he stay quite so long in bed? And where is Laura? Eamonn doesn’t seem to know quite what to make of his father’s arrival. On the other hand his neighbours - pushy and domineering Roger and Cheryl, smug but disillusioned property developers Becca and Ian - see in Dermot a respite from themselves.
Swept up in the British expats’ ceaseless barbecuing and bickering, both father and son slowly discover the truth about each other and the family past. But at the same time they uncover a shocking, unacknowledged secret at the heart of this defiant but beleaguered community.
Mr Lynch’s Holiday is a very funny and moving story about the clash of generations; about how families break apart and come together again; about how living "abroad" can feel less like a long holiday and more of a life sentence.
’An awesomely talented writer’ Jonathan Coe
’A tenderness and warmth seep through . . . an astute and thoughtful writer, and her warm take on the world is pleasing’ Sunday Times on The News Where You Are
’Darkly funny’ Independent on Sunday on The News Where You Are
’A comic genius . . . entertaining and often thoughtful’ Daily Mail on The News Where You Are
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在西班牙一处度假村内，一小群国外失意的爱尔兰移民在这里找到了另一片天堂，他们在这里办着烧烤和聚会，无望的争论着是否能获得留守此地看护微薄收入，如同一群野猫在那里无助地在接受残酷的现实。奥芬尼描绘了一幅枯萎的场景：一对年长的夫妇整天花时间在网络电话上与他们的孙子联络，年轻的房产开发商仍然在坚守着过时的投资组合形式，而这些故事中的人物中，陷入困顿中最深的人是伊蒙•林奇，一位来到Lomaverde度假地的无名作者，如今想要写一部小说的他正完全痛苦地陷入文思枯竭之中。不知是否是出于作家本身的嫉妒的原因，让他无法确定自己是否想要孩子。这让旁人很能理解为何女友劳拉离他而去了，总之，对于这里的每个人，包括读者都是有幸的，因为此时故事的主角，鳏居的父亲徳莫特•林奇也老大远的跑来此地度他人生中的第一个假期了。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：It’s a simple story but, thanks to a balance between hunour and pathos, a delightful one. The dialogue is perfectly pitched...but what is most meaningful about this is that it is a rare love story between a father and a son (Sunday Telegraph)
O’Flynn writes with brilliant wit and warmth about people cast adrift in contemporary wildernesses, and the resolution between father and son is surprising and satisfying (The Times)
Ms O’Flynn is a remarkable and original writer...tenderness, warmth, thoughtfulness and comic genius are words that are flung around a lot, but it’s more than that. She flinches at nothing and is as sharp as dammit (Fay Weldon Observer)
Like Jonathan Coe, O’Flynn has a gift for catching recent social history in her fiction, and this is a cuttingly down-to-earth book about families, expats and the experience of being Irish in Britain in the 1970s (Sunday Times)
The charm of this story of the skill and pathos with which the touching father and son relationship is portrayed. Subtle, clever and thoroughly enjoyable (Sunday Mirror)
About the Author/作者介绍： 凯瑟琳•奥芬尼生于1970年，是一位英国作家。她的首部小说《逝去的东西》曾获得了柯斯达文学新作奖 ，并入围英国卫报首作奖，英联邦作家奖和南岸杰出文学奖提名。该作品还一度入围布克奖和橘子奖。奥芬尼曾在2008年的英国银河图书奖提名为水石书店的新锐作家。
她的第二部在2010年发表的小说《你在哪里的消息》，入围波灵格大众伍德豪斯奖，埃德加•艾伦•坡奖和第四频道的图书俱乐部的精选小说奖。这本《林奇先生的假期》是作者2013的新作。
Catherine O’Flynn was born in 1970 and raised in Birmingham, the youngest of six children. Her parents ran a sweet shop. Prior to the publication of her first novel she did a variety of jobs including journalist, web editor, record shop manager, post woman, teacher and mystery shopper. Her debut novel, What Was Lost, won the Costa First Novel Award, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and The Southbank Show Literature Award. It was longlisted for the Booker and Orange Prizes. She was named Waterstone’s Newcomer of the Year at the 2008 Galaxy British Book Awards. Her second novel The News Where You Are, published in 2010, was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, an Edgar Allen Poe Award and was a Channel 4 TV Book Club selection.
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