THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF NINA FINDLAY
Book ID/图书代码： 05380013B64369
English Summary/英文概要： Growing up in a Scottish village, best friends with the boys next door, Nina Findlay thinks her life will unfold like an old folktale. She ends up marrying one of those boys, remaining best friends with the other. For many years the three of them assure themselves that the triangle is stable. The triangle is stable, until Nina’s sister-in-law dies and the whole delicate balance is thrown into chaos. It’s stable until, one fateful evening, her brother-in-law appears on her doorstep. Separated from her husband and encouraged to take a break, Nina travels to a small island in Greece - the same one she’d gone to on honeymoon 25 years earlier - and is involved in a serious road accident. While convalescing in the village hospital, and filled by what the doctor calls "survivor’s euphoria", Nina can’t stop thinking and remembering and obsessing about the details of the past. An old diary she’s brought with her proves to be a turning point. Perhaps romantic love is always a kind of undiagnosed madness. The time has come, she realises, to unravel the taut knot of her life.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 妮娜•芬德莱总是同时爱着两兄弟---她会嫁给其中的一个，却又同时渴望着另一个。
最近，妮娜的婚姻出现了一些小问题，她搬到了希腊的一座小岛上，然而就在那里，她遭遇了一场几乎让她丧生的严重事故，事后她不得不努力追寻自己的记忆碎片。妮娜意识到：她必须学会一个人生活。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：’通过微妙而持续绵长的描绘手法，作者为我们娓娓道来一个深刻而隐晦的故事。在吉利斯笔下，不论是家族秘密、高地之光抑或是记忆的本质都可以变得宏伟壮丽且充溢着美好。’ --《星期六泰晤士报》’A subtle and sustained exercise in slowly revealing a dense story. Gillies writes magnificently on everything she touches, be it family secrets, Highland light, or the nature of memory.’ -- The Sunday Times
About the Author/作者介绍： 安德里亚•吉利斯出生于纽约，她的母亲是一名约克郡人，而她的父亲则是一名苏格兰人，在澳大利亚任职的三年间，安德里亚曾就读于圣安德鲁斯学院。她的职业生涯极为特殊，其中包括戏剧项目创作、公共工作、担任《美啤指南》 （Good Beer Guide）编者、编辑旅游类书籍及参考类书目、她还在周末报上负责有一个关于苏格兰的饮酒专栏。过去的18年中，作者一直专心抚养和培育子女，近来作者为了照料患有中度痴呆的婆婆，她搬到了苏格兰北部一座遥远半岛上的一间维多利亚风格的房屋中。该段时期的经历亦被她记载在其作品《守门人》（Keeper）中，并荣获有2009年度维康信、2010年度奥威尔奖、曾入围2010年BMA流行药学图书奖，并于2010年八月由美国百老汇图书出版社出版发行。本书的西班牙语版、波兰语版、土耳其语版及中文版（台湾地区发售）将于2011年出版发行。
安德里亚的第一部小说作品《白色谎言》主要围绕一个贵族家族及其谎言生活而展开。该书已于2012年2月由 Short Books出版社出版发行。作者现与家人居住在爱丁堡市。
Andrea Gillies was born in York of a Yorkshire mother and proudly Scottish father and went to St Andrews University, via a three year stint living in Australia. She has had a peculiar career, encompassing theatre programme writing, publicity work, the editorship of the Good Beer Guide, travel and reference book editing, and writing a drinks column for Scotland on Sunday newspaper. She’s spent most of the last eighteen years having and raising children, and latterly, living in a big Victorian house on a remote peninsula in northern Scotland and caring for her mother-in-law through the middle stages of dementia, a period documented in her book KEEPER which won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize in 2009. The book also won the Orwell Book Prize 2010, was shortlisted for the BMA Popular Medicine Book Prize 2010, and was published by Broadway Books (Random House) in the US in August 2010. Spanish, Polish, Turkish and Taiwanese editions will be released in 2011.
Andrea’s first novel, entitled THE WHITE LIE, about an aristocratic family and their secrets, was published by Short Books in February 2012. She lives in Edinburgh with her family.
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