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Book ID/图书代码： 02330013B62850
English Summary/英文概要： Winner of the National Book Award for her collection of stories Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett has become one of our most admired and beloved writers. In this magnificent new book, she unfolds five pivotal moments in the lives of her characters and in the history of knowledge.
During the summer of 1908, twelve-year-old Constantine Boyd is witness to an explosion of home-spun investigation—from experiments with cave-dwelling fish without eyes to scientifically bred crops to motorized bicycles and the flight of an early aeroplane. In 1920, a popular science writer and young widow tries, immediately after the bloodbath of the First World War, to explain the new theory of relativity to an audience (herself included) desperate to believe in an “ether of space” housing spirits of the dead.
Half a century earlier, in 1873, a famous biologist struggles to maintain his sense of the hierarchies of nature as Darwin’s new theory of evolution threatens to make him ridiculous in the eyes of a precocious student. The twentieth-century realms of science and war collide in the last two stories, as developments in genetics and X-ray technology that had once held so much promise fail to protect humans—among them, a young American soldier, Constantine Boyd, sent to Archangel, Russia, in 1919—from the failures of governments and from the brutality of war.
In these brilliant fictions rich with fact, Barrett explores the thrill and sense of loss that come with scientific progress and the personal passions and impersonal politics that shape all human knowledge.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 自从凭借其故事集《船热》赢得国家图书奖后，安德莉亚•巴瑞特已日渐成为一名深受读者敬爱与喜爱的作家。在这部全新的精彩作品中，她将为我们揭开书中角色以及知识史上的五个关键性时刻。
1908年的夏天，12岁的康斯坦丁•博伊德见证了一系列寻常调查的发生---从穴居无目鱼实验到庄稼的科学培育，从电动自行车到早年的飞机雏形。1920年，年轻的寡妇，同时也是一名畅销科幻小说作家试图在第一次世界大战的血洗后向读者们（也包括她自己）去解释相对论这一全新理论，因为他们都有一个共通之处：迫切地渴望去相信“以太空间”中关于亡灵的灵魂寄宿一说。
半个多世纪以前，也就是1873年间，达尔文关于进化的全新理论使得一名著名生物学家关于自然等级制度的理论在早熟的学生们的面前显得荒谬而可笑。随着人们对基因和X射线技术巨大期望的落空，20世纪的科学和战争领域最终强烈的冲击在了一起，在这一群失忆的人群中，有一名年轻的美国士兵---康斯坦丁•博伊德，政府的垮台和残酷的战争使得他在1919年最终被派往了俄罗斯阿尔汉格尔港。
在这部丰富而充满着真实事件的小说作品中，巴瑞特为我们揭示了科技进步、个人情感及不近人情的政治是如何成就了今日的人类文明，并探究了这一过程中人类所萌生出的惊恐与迷失感。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 安德莉亚•巴瑞特是一名作家，著有《我们所呼吸的空气》《地图的仆人》（普利策奖提名作品）《独角鲸的旅程》《船热》（国家图书奖获奖作品）等多部作品。作者现任教于威廉姆斯大学，并定居马塞诸塞州西北部。 Andrea Barrett is the author of The Air We Breathe, Servants of the Map (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), The Voyage of the Narwhal, Ship Fever (winner of the National Book Award), and other books. She teaches at Williams College and lives in northwestern Massachusetts.
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