THE INNOCENTS
Book ID/图书代码： 11701213B60702
English Summary/英文概要： ’It was more than possession, more than union, more than love. It was absolute confidence. It was certainty, and a promise of certainty always’
Adam and Rachel, childhood sweethearts, are getting married at last. Rachel is everything Adam has ever imagined in a wife and her parents adore him. A life of easy contentment awaits, at the heart of the community.
But then Rachel’s reckless American cousin returns to the family fold. Ellie represents everything that Adam has striven to avoid - and everything that is missing from his world. As the long-awaited wedding approaches, Adam is torn between duty and temptation, security and freedom, and must make a choice that will break either one heart, or many.
Chinese Summary/中文概要：
自由是否註定要背叛？愛是否就是束縛？生存在矛盾世界的我們是否無法避免衝突、糾葛、撕扯、痛苦？
成功再現伊迪斯•沃頓的《純真年代》
28歲的亞當•紐曼高傲自滿，剛剛訂婚，還獲得了倫敦郊區一個猶太人聚集區的“Temple Fortune”的獎項。他從16歲開始就和瑞吉兒•吉伯特談戀愛。為了吉伯特家庭的幸福，他們決定結婚。
對亞當來說，蕾切爾體現了“Temple Fortune”的最高價值，她純真、保守、在這個能與過往托兒所同學的社區，她是個乖乖女。和蕾切爾結婚能鞏固亞當在他熱愛的溫暖、凝聚力極強的家庭中的地位。
不過，繁文縟節的婚禮發展到高潮時，亞當感覺到一點緊張、恐懼、拘束……此時，蕾切爾的表妹艾迪•施耐德從家搬到紐約。美麗、較弱、獨立的艾迪讓亞當心中激起一陣漣漪，感到一陣不安，讓他體味到了從所未有的自由，從愛情的拘束中解脫出來，從倫敦西北部的愛國情結中解脫出來，自此，亞當開始懷疑一切，在保守和激情、傳統和獨立的矛盾中撕扯痛苦。若仍然呆在家裡，他會不會失去更多？（Celia）
Awards/获奖情况：
2012年科斯塔文學獎新人獎
2013薩彌羅爾獎猶太文學傑出貢獻獎
“我無法抵禦這本小說的聰慧、優雅和魅力！”
——《The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia》的作者Lauren Groff
“西格爾的書以同情心、理解人心的智慧和電影般的觀察視角將人物復活，生動地顯現在讀者眼前。這是一本得獎新作，名副其實。”——《人物報》
“受到《純真年代》的啟發，西格爾的書溫馨、有趣、描述了一個生動、人性化的社區，與沃頓書中的冷漠社會態度形成對比。”——《出版社週刊》
“巧妙的敬意。西格爾以溫馨的態度寫這本書。”——《娛樂週刊》
“喜歡快節奏、藏有諷刺意味的文學小說，Allegra Goodman的書迷和書友會的朋友們會發覺這本傑出的小說裡，安息日晚餐只是故事的小小一部分。”——《圖書館雜誌》
“感情豐富、聰慧有趣、精明的處女作小說。”——《Kirkus》
"Stylish, witty, wonderfully moreish" -- A.D. Miller "The Innocents is an exuberant, sensitive, witty novel, elegantly written, partly a study of universal dramas of love, marriage and fear, partly a very modern, sassy London story, partly a Jewish novel. I found it irresistible" Simon Sebag Montefiore "A moving, funny, richly drawn story of a young man’s attempts to find out who he wants to be when there are so many others who know best. Full of real pleasures and unexpected wisdom, this book sweeps you along" Esther Freud "A beautiful, bittersweet novel" -- Gin Phillips "Written with wisdom and deliciously subtle wit, in the tradition of Jane Austen and Nancy Mitford. Francesca Segal has a remarkable ability to bring characters vividly to life who are at once warm, funny, complex, and utterly recognizable. This is a wonderfully readable novel: elegant, accomplished and romantic" Andre Aciman http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2013/01/03/francesca-segal-receives-costa-debut-book-prize---the-innocents
Francesca Segal has won the Sami Rohr Prize 2013:
http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/2013-sami-rohr-prize-for-jewish-literature
About the Author/作者介绍： 法蘭西斯卡•西格爾出生在倫敦，畢業於牛津和哈佛大學，隨後成為記者和評論家。她的作品被刊登在《衛報》、《觀察者》、《Granta》和其他出版物上。成為專業作家後，她的處女作被刊登在《觀察者報》的小說專欄裡。另外她還是《塔特勒報》的專欄作家。平時她的生活大多在倫敦和紐約度過。
The daughter of a novelist and an editor, Francesca Segal was born in London in 1980. Brought up in the UK and America, she studied at Oxford and Harvard universities before becoming a journalist and critic. Her work has appeared in Granta, the Guardian, the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, FT Magazine and the JC, amongst others. For three years she wrote the Debut Fiction Column in the Observer and she has been a Features Writer at Tatler.
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