THE FAR CRY
Book ID/图书代码： 06580013B64630
English Summary/英文概要： The Far Cry was the first book on MacGibbon & Kee’s newly-launched list. This ’savage comedy with a vicious streak’ (Elizabeth Bowen in The Tatler in 1949) describes the ’second passage to India’ of ’Teresa, whose elderly, willful father drags her off to spare her from the clutches of her mother…I can think of no writer, British or Indian, who has captured so vividly, with such intensity, the many intangibles of the Indian kaleidoscope; Emma Smith harnessed those intense impressions of her youth to give her story a quite extraordinary driving force’ wrote Charles Allen in the Spectator, going on to agree with Susan Hill in her Afterword that the book is ’a small masterpiece…beautifully shaped, evocative, moving and mature.’
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当艾玛•史密斯23岁时，她去观摩了一场印度电影拍摄过程，随行的还有受聘于《茶盘》，撰写两部电影剧本的劳里•李。在回英国后，艾玛发表了《少女之行》，记录了她在一条狭窄的小船上所渡过的战时生活：之后，随着作者在财政上的渐渐宽裕，作者带着她的随身打字机，在法国巴黎的图尔农旅馆的一个小房间内定居了下来。
《悬殊之别》是MacGibbon&Kee的全新推出的一部作品。这是一部‘有着充斥着强烈色彩的喜剧故事’(伊丽莎白•鲍温在1949年)形容这部作品为‘印度的影子’，书中‘上了年纪的特瑞莎，任性的父亲让女儿能尽量摆脱自己母亲的掌控…我无法想象任何一位英国或印度的笔者，能如此生动地刻画出印度这个国度的众生相；年轻的艾玛•史密斯运用自己对这个东方古国的深刻印象，赋予她笔下的这个故事一种超凡的魅力’《观察家》报的查尔斯•亚伦评述道，并赞同苏珊•希尔在书中编后语的评述‘一部小巧的杰作…散发出优美而迷人优雅的气息。’(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 艾玛•史密斯1923年生于英国的康沃尔郡，在非公立学校接受教育。 1939年，她在英国陆军部的战时记录部门获得了她的第一份工作，在这之前她一直在运河上做志愿服务工作，这给她的小说《少女之行》（1948年）提供了写作素材 ，同时也为她赢得了约翰•卢埃林里斯纪念奖。为了能在印度拍摄一部纪录片，艾玛在那里渡过了1946年的整个冬季，随后前巴黎定居，撰写了《悬殊之别》（1949），并在同年获得英国的詹姆斯•泰特布莱克小说纪念奖。 1951年，艾玛•史密斯结婚，并育有两子。在1957年丈夫去世后，她搬到威尔士的乡下安顿下来;在之后的岁月里，艾玛发表了非常成功的儿童的书籍，短篇小说（其中一部作品，在1951年获得《观察家》报的短篇故事奖竞赛单元），并在1978年，她发表了小说《千载难逢》。自1980年，艾玛一直定居于伦敦西南部普特尼。
Emma Smith was born in Cornwall in 1923 and was privately educated. In 1939 she took her first job in the Records Department of the War Office before volunteering for work on the canals; this gave her the material for Maiden’s Trip(1948), which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. She spent the winter of 1946-7 with a documentary film unit in India and then lived in Paris and wroteThe Far Cry (1949), awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the best novel of the year in English. In 1951 Emma Smith married and had two children. After her husband’s death in 1957 she went to live in rural Wales; she then published very successful children’s books, short stories (one of which was runner-up in the 1951 Observer short story competition that launched the winner, Muriel Spark, on her career) and, in 1978, her novel The Opportunity of a Lifetime. Since 1980 she has lived in Putney in south-west London.
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