DIARY OF THE FALL (ORIGINAL TITLE:DIARIO DA QUEDA)
Book ID/图书代码： 11701212B59504
English Summary/英文概要： A grandfather who survived Auschwitz, a father with Alzheimer’s and a grandson who recounts his own life starting from an obscure accident at school during his Bar-Mitzvah year. Three generations whose stories reveal themselves to be one in this brave and original narrative about individual and historical memories that must be either retained or forgotten.
The way the author weaves his plot full of secrets and twists, establishing unexpected relations between disparate facts, is one of this book’s major triumphs. As such, a sandwich eaten in a school playground conjures up the war and the gas chambers; a drawing on a crumpled page links to a suicide; someone’s first dip in a swimming pool announces “the end of things (…), the routine that imposes itself upon them”. In a prose that oscillates between violence, lyricism and irony, with pauses for a near-documental neutrality in the description of smells, tastes, sounds, colors, facts and feelings, Diary of a Fall is a kind of response to those questions, at once simple and complex, that will always occupy the mind of a child surveying the tragedy and comedy of his forebears’ lives: why is the world the way it is? Why do people like or dislike one another? How do people become who they are?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 他的祖父從奧斯維辛集中營中成功逃生，他父親受老年癡呆症的折磨，他的描述開始於學校“酒吧成人禮”上的一場莫名其妙的事故。三代人各自講述了自己面對現實時的勇敢故事。本書是個人故事也是歷史回憶。這些回憶該保留還是忘記？
本書的特點是，作者用獨特的方式編織著秘密和曲折，揭露了世間每個微小事務之間的聯繫如蝴蝶效應般相連。比如，在操場上吃掉的三明治挑起了一場戰爭，促使毒氣室的出現；畫在皺巴巴紙頭上的畫和一個人的自殺有關；某人在游泳池裡的第一跳宣佈了某件事務的終結。
《秋天日記》在暴力、詩意和譏諷之間擺動徘徊，對於觸覺、聽覺、顏色、事實和感情的描寫態度中立，近乎紀實的描寫，是對孩子們搜尋前輩經歷時所產生問題的簡單又深刻的回答：這個世界為什麼是這個樣子？為什麼人與人相互仇恨？為什麼人們會變成現在這樣？
Awards/获奖情况：
“絕對無懈可擊的作者。”——nomínimo
“新一代中最優秀的巴西作者。”——Terra Magazine
“Laub詩意的情節和流暢的文字中蘊藏著美。這種美中包涵的是Laub的藝術才能，一種觸物無痕的自然風格。”——Vox
“就如Milton Hatoum一樣，Michel Laub總能在戲劇性的時刻給予讀者絕妙的感覺。”——Estado de S. Paulo
The best Brazilian writer of the new generation
Terra Magazine
Beauty resides, almost discreetly, in the poetic plot [and] inviting, flowing prose (…) Therein lies Laub’s art, a style that seems to touch things without leaving a mark, without oppressing or disfiguring what is written Vox
As in Milton Hatoum, in Michel Laub there is always the device of a subtle touch at the most dramatic moments(Estado de S. Paulo)
Also, I am delighted to report that Michel Laub is one of seven authors shortlisted for the Wingate Prize 2015. Please see details of the announcement that appeared in The Bookseller(http://www.thebookseller.com/news/shteyngart-krall-and-laub-jq-wingate-shortlist).
The winner is to be announced on 4th March 2015.
"A powerful exploration of memory and guilt" Guardian
"A work of immense incantatory power" Neel Mukherjee, Literary Review
"Astonishingly powerful ... DIARY OF A FALL may well emerge as one of the finest novels published in English this year" Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
"A gripping, thoughtful novel... Laub beautifully retrieves the tragedy of the holocaust from its scholarship, politics and deniers, cutting to the bone of human life, its longings and limitations" Tabish Khair, Independent
“A powerful and nuanced novel… Elegantly translated… it is both timely and gratifying to see one of [Brazil’s] outstanding writers come to the attention of an English-language readership” Financial Times
“Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub (Harvill Secker/Other Press) is another extraordinary book from 2014, as sharp as it is moving. I’ll never forget the grandfather’s rewriting of his life, from what it really was to what it should have been. In my world, this novel is already a classic”. Karl Ove Knausgaard
About the Author/作者介绍： MICHEL LAUB1973年生於阿雷格里港，是位专職業作家和記者。到目前為止，一共出版了四本小說：Música Anterior (Anterior Music), 2001; Longe da água (Far from the Water), 2004；O Segundo Tempo (The Second Half), 2006; 和 O Gato Diz Adeus (Cat′s Farewell), 2009。他已經贏得了巴西各種文學大獎，比如巴西作家協會頒發的Erico Verissimo/Revelation prize（“啟示獎”），兩次入圍Jabuti and Portugal Telecom awards。他的作品已被譯成義大利語和韓語出版。
Michel Laub was born in Porto Alegre in 1973. A writer and journalist, he has published four novels, all through Companhia das Letras: MúSICA ANTERIOR (ANTERIOR MUSIC), 2001; LONGE DA áGUA (FAR FROM WATER), 2004, also released in Argentina; O SEGUNDO TEMPO (THE SECOND HALF), 2006; and O GATO DIZ ADEUS (CAT’S FAREWELL), 2009. He is a winner of the Erico Verissimo/Revelation prize, conferred by the Brazilian Writers’ Union, and was twice short-listed for the Jabuti and Portugal Telecom awards, among others.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：版权已卖：
Brazil: Companhia das Letras (2011);
UK: Harvill Secker;
US: The Other Press;
France: Buchet Chastel;
Germany: Klett-Cotta;
Holland: Ambo Anthos;
Israel: Modan;
Italy: Feltrinelli;
Norway: Gyldendal;
Portugal: Tinta da China;
Spain: Random House Mondadori.
An absolutely impeccable writer nomínimo
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