POSTCARDS FROM THE PAST
Book ID/图书代码： 03848013B61924
English Summary/英文概要： There are two moons tonight. The round white shining disc, brittle and sharp-edged as glass, stares down at its reflection lying on its back in the black water of the lake. Nothing stirs. No whisper of wind ruffles the surface. At the lake’s edge the wild cherry tree leans like an elegant ghost, its delicate bare branches silver with ice, yearning towards the past warmth of summer days. Tall stands of dogwood, their bright wands of colour blotted into monochrome by the cold brilliant light, guard the northern shore of the lake and cast spiked shadows across the frosty grass.
She stands in the warm room, staring down at the frozen, wintry scene and, all the while, her fingers fret around the edges of the postcard thrust deep into the pocket of her quilted gilet just as her mind frets around the meaning of the words scrawled on the back of a reproduction of Toulouse-Lautrecs’s La Chaine Simpson.
‘A blast from the past. How are you doing? Perhaps I should pay a visit and find out!’
It is addressed to her and her brother – Edmund and Wilhelmina St Enedoc – and signed simply with one word: ‘Tris’. She fingers the card, breaking its corner; from a room below drift a few notes of music, the lyrical poignancy of the trumpet: Miles Davis playing ‘It Never Entered my Mind’. It is one of Ed’s favourite CD’s.
Instinct made her hide the postcard earlier, shuffling it beneath yesterday’s newspaper as Ed came into the kitchen to see what the postman had brought. She made some light-hearted remark, passing him the handful of envelopes and catalogues, whilst the writing on the postcard burned on her inner eye.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 今夜的夜空里有两轮明月。那闪耀着光芒的白色圆盘是如此的明晰与清脆，宛如玻璃一般，静静地俯视着自己在倒映在幽深湖面之上的倒影。一切都平静得毫无波澜。甚至没有一丝微风拂过湖面的窸窣声。湖畔的蔓生樱桃书斜斜的倒向湖面，仿若优雅的鬼影，光裸的脆嫩树枝折射出银色的微光，似乎在呼唤已逝的夏日温暖。一片茱萸直直的耸立，冰冷的寒光将原本带有色彩的嫩枝染上了单一的色调，卫护着这片湖的北岸，在寒草上投下星星点点的树影。
她站立在温暖的房间里，静静地俯视着窗外冰封雪冻的冬日景象，她的手指在绗缝背心的口袋里不停地摩挲着明信片的边缘，正如她此刻脑海中的思绪正反复琢磨着一幅图卢兹•洛克雷克作品La Chaine Simpson的复制品背面文字的含义。
“面对一个来自于过去的惊天消息，你将何去何从？或许你应该亲自来拜访了解一下！”这是一张寄给她和她的兄弟---埃德蒙德和维尔海米纳•圣艾内多克的明信片---署名只有短短的“特里斯”。她暗自拨弄着明信片，翻动着折角；楼下的一个房间里飘荡出阵阵乐声，以及清晰的小号旋律：乐曲是迈尔斯•达维斯的“It Never Entered my Mind”。这是艾德最爱的一张CD。
当艾德走近厨房来取邮递员送来的文件时，直觉告诉她将明信片藏起来，她把它混在了昨天的报纸里。她随口评论了几句，将一沓信件和目录递给他，然而明信片上的文字却仿佛在她的瞳孔深处燃烧着。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：The link to the review of the Daily
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About the Author/作者介绍： Postcards from the Past is MARCIA WILLETT’s fifteenth novel to be published in the U.S. Her novels are available in seventeen countries around the world. She lives in Devon, England.
Format:HARDCOVER
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