A KIND OF EDEN
Book ID/图书代码： 00200013B63297
English Summary/英文概要： A Kind of Eden. A sort of hell. Martin Rawlinson is a stranger in a strange land, an Englishman in Trinidad, and he is relishing it. He has asked for his temporary consultancy position with the Trinidad police to be made permanent, and is hoping to start a new life with the beautiful Safiya, and perhaps grow to understand this intoxicating, troubled country. His only problem is breaking the news to his wife, Miriam, and daughter, Georgia. While Martin has found a new life in the Caribbean, Miriam counts down the months to his return, aware of, but not understanding, the growing distance between them. She and Georgia escape the English winter to visit Martin, and - Miriam hopes - to reclaim him. The week that follows will change everything, but not in the way any of them planned: they will learn how close paradise is to hell. A mesmerising, claustrophobic novel that illustrates how fragile the ties that bind can be, Amanda Smyth immerses us in a moral dilemma with no answer - how can you forgive yourself for compromising what you love most?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 别样伊甸园，一种地狱般的感受。Martin Rawlinson是一名英国人，他来到了人生地不熟的特立尼达拉岛（它是特立尼达和多巴哥两主岛中较大者，位于西印度群岛最西南部，与委内瑞拉东北部海岸相望，最近处仅11公里）。他十分享受那里的生活。为了能够在特立尼达拉岛上获得永久居住权，他向当地的警方谋求了一份临时顾问的工作，藉此希望与美丽的Safiya一起开始一段美好的新生活，如果可能的话，随着时间推移，他会渐渐熟悉这个景色迷人，内忧外患的国家。他唯一的问题就是不忍心把这个坏消息告诉他的妻子Miriam和女儿Georgia。当Martin在加勒比海地区即将开始他的新生活时，Miriam却在英国暗自算着他还有几个月可以回家与她们团聚，她不知不觉中意识到了他们夫妻之间与日俱增的隔阂，但是她并不理解他为什么要这样做。终于，她与女儿Georgia在严冬时节一起离开了英国，目的是去特立尼达拉岛与Martin见面——Miriam希望挽回他的心。接下来的一周将改变一切，但是任何人都没有预料到会发生这样的事情：他们将会明白一个道理：原来天堂和地狱只有一步之遥。这本小说一经出版，立即吸引了很多人，它展现了婚姻关系的纽带原来是那么的不堪一击，本书作者AMANDA SMYTH让我们陷入了这样的沉思：究竟如何处理伦理问题上的两难处境？——你如何原谅自己对曾经山盟海誓的恋人作出的背叛？(Susie)
Awards/获奖情况：’A Kind of Eden is plotted like a thriller and reads like literature of the highest quality. Amanda Smyth shows how easy it is for a white foreign man to get lost in a small intensely mixed society, a society men like him once had a hand in creating. Every page in this novel feels eerie and uncomfortable it touches on difficult truths about love, sex and crime in the twenty-first century Caribbean.’ --Monique Roffey, author of White Woman on a Green Bicycle
About the Author/作者介绍： Amanda Smyth是一名爱尔兰裔特立尼达拉岛人。她于2000年在东英吉利大学读完创意写作专业后，获得了文学硕士学位。她的短篇小说曾经在“新写作”，“伦敦杂志”这些杂志上发表过。她的一部分系列小说“爱与失”曾作为广播小说在第4电台里播放过。Amanda Smyth is Irish/Trinidadian. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2000. Her short stories have been published in New Writing, London Magazine, and broadcast on Radio 4 as part of a series called Love and Loss. Her first novel, Black Rock [9781846687020], was published by Serpent’s Tail in 2009.
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