IN PARADISE: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 03900013B65933
English Summary/英文概要： A profoundly searching new novel by a writer of incomparable range, power, and achievement.
In the winter of 1996, more than a hundred women and men of diverse nationality, background, and belief gather at the site of a former concentration camp for an unprecedented purpose: a weeklong retreat during which they will offer prayer and witness at the crematoria and meditate in all weathers on the selection platform, while eating and sleeping in the quarters of the Nazi officers who, half a century before, sent more than a million Jews to their deaths. Clements Olin, an American academic of Polish descent, has come along, ostensibly to complete research on the death of a survivor, even as he questions what a non-Jew can contribute to the understanding of so monstrous a catastrophe. As the days pass, tensions, both political and personal, surface among the participants, stripping away any easy pretense to healing or closure. Finding himself in the grip of emotions and impulses of bewildering intensity, Olin is forced to abandon his observer’s role and to embrace a history his family has long suppressed—and with it the yearnings and contradictions of being fully alive.
In Paradise is a brave and deeply thought-provoking novel by one of our most stunningly accomplished writers.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书是一部深刻的探寻小说，来自于一名博览群书且颇具实力的知名作家。
1996年冬，一百余名来自不同国籍、背景和有着迥然相异信仰的男男女女聚集到了曾经的纳粹集中营，他们都怀有着一个史无前例的目标：他们将用一周的时间在当年的焚化之地见证与祈祷，在特定的场景中，在各种天气环境下冥思默想；他们在纳粹军官的办公室里饮食与休息，在那里，半个世纪之前，曾有数百万名犹太人奔赴上了他们的刑场。克莱门茨•欧琳，波兰藉美国学者，他只身来到集中营，希望能完成关于对那一场大浩劫幸存者的研究，然而他不断自问：自己身为一名非犹太人，即便研究又能对理解这场噩梦般的灾难做出怎样的贡献。随着日子一天天流逝，参加者之间的紧张气氛开始慢慢浮现与升级，有政治原因，亦有个人因素，矛盾与冲突慢慢揭开各类轻易的伪装，参加者们既无法获得治愈同时也无法终结。欧琳发现自己深陷疯狂而强烈的情绪与冲动之中，他不得不抛开自己观察者的身份，去重新接受他的家族长久以来一直掩埋的一段历史---在此过程中，有渴望也有反差，然而最重要的是真实而透彻地活着。
《天堂里》是一部充满着勇气，同时能激发人们深入思考的小说，本书来自一名令人惊艳的著名作家。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：纽约时报相关文章链接如下:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/business/media/peter-matthiessen-to-publish-new-novel.html
About the Author/作者介绍： 彼得•马蒂恩森，作家，著有30余部书籍作品，其中包括《影国》，该作品曾获2008年度国家图书奖小说作品奖；《雪豹》曾于30年前2次获得非小说类国家文学奖。作者是巴黎书评的联合创始人之一、世界著名自然科学家、探险家、禅学老师、积极行动分子，作者现居长岛 South Fork。Peter Matthiessen is the author of thirty books, including Shadow Country, which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008, and The Snow Leopard, which won the National Book Award in two nonfiction categories nearly three decades before. A cofounder of The Paris Review and a world-renowned naturalist, explorer, Zen teacher, and activist, he lives on the South Fork of Long Island.
Format:
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：
原文第一章内容：暂无
手稿：暂无
大纲：暂无