CAIRO
Book ID/图书代码： 11980513B60163
English Summary/英文概要： Frustrated by country life and eager for adventure and excitement, eighteen-year-old Tom
Button moves to the city to study. Once there, and living in a run-down apartment block
called Cairo, he is befriended by an eccentric musician, Max Cheever; his beautiful wife, Sally;
and their close-knit circle of painters and poets.
Tom is delighted at his new life, but he starts to suspect his charismatic older friends aren’t
quite what they appear to be. As he falls increasingly under their sway, Tom enters a
bohemian world of parties and gallery openings, but also of more sinister events involving
murder, deception, and betrayal, not to mention one of the greatest unsolved art heists of
the twentieth century: the infamous theft of Picasso’s Weeping Woman.
Set among the demimonde — where nothing and nobody is as they seem — Cairo is a novel
about growing up, the perils of first love, and finding one’s true place in the world.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 18岁的汤姆•巴顿渴望充满冒险和刺激的生活，他离开早已厌倦的乡村生活并前往城市学习。初来城市的汤姆住在开罗街区里一间老旧的公寓中，他的到来受到了古怪音乐家麦克斯•奇沃、麦克斯美丽的妻子萨利，以及与他们关系密切的画家及诗人小圈子的热烈欢迎。
尽管汤姆对自己的新生活十分满意，但他却逐渐开始怀疑他极具成熟魅力的新朋友们真实面貌。而他自己也正逐渐受到他们的巨大影响。汤姆进入了一个充满着聚会与艺廊开幕式的波西米亚世界，但与此同时，他也被卷入了种种诸如谋杀、欺骗、背叛等的邪恶事件中，甚至有关于二十世纪至今未解的重大艺术盗窃案中:毕加索名作《哭泣的女人》的失窃。
《开罗街区》以真假难辨的“风流社会”为背景，为我们讲述了有关于成长，初恋的风险，以及如何找寻自己在世界上的位置。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：the Quercus edition of CAIRO by Chris Womersley is being published in the UK today, http://www.quercusbooks.co.uk/book/Cairo-by-Chris-Womersley-ISBN_9781848663916#.UvLkYPYb7jM. Hopefully there will be heightened interest from publishers.
The Scribe edition is doing well, with over 7,000 copies sold to date. Here’s a link to our website with some reviews,
http://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/title/cairo/
About the Author/作者介绍： Chris Womersley,澳洲实力派作家，其首部小说作品The Low Road为其赢得了内德•凯莉最佳首部犯罪小说奖。且该书在出版前，其手稿便已荣获维多利亚总督文学奖--未出版最佳手稿奖提名。他的第二部小说作品Bereft则荣获独立奖之最佳澳洲小说及ABIA年度图书奖。此外，本书还是极为荣耀的迈尔斯•富兰克林奖亚军得主，并荣获ASL文学金奖、内德•凯莉小说奖及年度世纪图书奖提名。 Womersley是一名澳洲人，还从事记者一职，现居悉尼。Chris Womersley is a writer of considerable power whose first book, The Low Road, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Fiction. Before its publication, the manuscript was shortlisted for Victorian Premiers’ Award for Unpublished Manuscript. His second novel, Bereft, won the Indie Award for best Australian novel and Book of the Year from the ABIA. It was also the runner-up for the prestigious Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the ASL Gold Medal for Literature, the Ned Kelly Award for Fiction, and the Age Book of the Year award. Australian native Womersley is a print and radio journalist and lives in Sydney.
Chris Womersley是澳洲得獎作家，著有The Low Road，以及無數短篇故事、書評和論文。近期榮獲澳洲獨立書商小說獎 (Australian India Award for Fiction 2011，和許多富有盛名的澳洲作家並駕齊驅，包括 Kim Scott，Roger McDonald 及 Fiona McGregor。
Format:TRADE PAPERBACK
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK rights have been sold to Quercus and French rights to Albin Michel
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