THE END (FIM)
Book ID/图书代码： 11701213B66194
English Summary/英文概要： Brazilians are used to seeing Fernanda Torres in the cinema, on stage and on television. In award-winning films, soap-operas and TV series, she has confirmed herself as one of Brazil’s most versatile actresses, capable of performing across a dramatic range that goes from bawdy comedy to dense psychological drama.
In recent years, Fernanda has started to write for the press. With FIM [THE END], her first novel, she consolidates her transition to the world of literature and shows that in this arena she is as consummate an artist as she is on stage or in front of the cameras.
The book centres on the story of a group of five friends in Rio de Janeiro. They are nearing the end of their lives and revisit their most significant memories: the parties, marriages, divorces, fixations, inhibitions, regrets.
Álvaro lives alone, spends his time going from doctor to doctor and can’t stand his ex-wife. Sílvio is a junkie who can’t give up the excesses of sex and drugs even in his old age. Ribeiro is an athletic beach bum who is enjoying a prolonged sex life thanks to Viagra. Neto is the square member of the group, a faithful husband until his last days. And Ciro is the Don Juan envied by all – but the first to die, struck down by cancer.
They are very different figures, but who share not only the fact that they are at the far end of life, but also limited horizons. Career success, personal realization and serenity are all out of the question – and at the end of the day, none of them seem capable of tallying up anything but a list of frustrations.
Orbiting around them are several women: neurotic, bitter, seductive, blasé, abandoned, resigned. There is also a priest in the throes of a crisis over his own vocation and an entourage of typical Rio sorts who are the fruit of the author’s sharp observation skills.
The pages of FIM contain pizzazz, sex, sun and sand. But they are also full of resignation and tinged with melancholy. Humorous without being superficial, lyrical without being corny, complex without being contrived, dense without being boring: what other qualities does a novel need?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 不论是在舞台上还是电视上，巴西民众总能看到弗南达•托瑞斯的身影。获奖电影、肥皂剧、电视剧集，这一切的演艺活动都确立了她巴西最佳女演员的位置，多才多艺，戏路极广，从情色喜剧到紧张的心理剧，没有一个是她所无法诠释的。近年来，弗南达开始为媒体撰稿。《终结》是她的第一部小说作品，同时也昭示了她从演艺界向文学界进军的成功转型，这部作品向我们证明了，弗南达不仅在摄像机前是完美的，同时作为一名艺术家，她也是十分成功的。
全书围绕着五个生活在里约热内卢的朋友展开，他们的生命都已即将终结，于是踏上了一场对于人生中最有意义时刻的回忆之旅：狂欢、婚姻、离婚、重修旧好、定居以及悔恨。
阿瓦罗是一名独居者，他的绝大多数时间都用来走访一名名医生，并且他无法忍受自己的前妻。西尔维奥则是一名瘾君子，即便已经步入老年，他似乎也无法戒掉过剩的性欲和毒瘾。李柏罗是个头脑简单四肢发达的混蛋，每天享受着维尔戈拉带给他的美满性生活。奈托则是五个人里最安分守己的一个，直至他生命的终结之日，他都是一名忠诚的丈夫。而希罗则是所有人们都嫉妒不已的唐璜---然而他却也是所有人当中最早离开人世的，他死于癌症。
他们是完全不同的一群人，然而他们却有着共同之处，不仅仅是他们都正处在生命终结的前夕，同样地他们都有着各自的局限性。毋庸置疑，他们或者拥有成功的事业，或者实现了自我目标，抑或者获得了内心的宁静，然而当终日来临，他们又似乎一无所获，剩下的唯有一席沮丧与失落。
这五个人身边围绕着一些女性们:神经质的、苦涩的、充满诱惑力的、老于世故的、厌世的、温顺的。故事中还有一名虽身处假期，却饱受一阵阵痛苦折磨的牧师，一名典型的里约热内卢随从，并且这名随从正是作者敏锐洞察力下的产物。
在《终结》一书中有着大量的披萨、性、阳光沙滩场景。然而却又在与此同时充斥着顺从并带有着一丝对于过往的忧愁与哀伤。幽默却不会显得浅薄，诗情画意确不会显得过时，错综复杂却不失自然之气，情节紧张但又不会显得索然无味：有了这些优点，你又还能如何对一部小说做出更高的要求呢？（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 弗南达•托瑞斯1965年9月15日出生于里约热内卢。她是一名演员，同时也是一名作家。迄今为止，她已经在戏院、电影院及电视荧屏上收获了长达35年之久的成功，并斩获有诸多奖项，其中包括1986年戛纳电影节的最佳女演员奖。作者还是报纸Folha de São Paulo和里约热内卢杂志的特约专栏作家，本书是她的第一部小说作品。Fernanda Torres was born in Rio de Janeiro on 15 September 1965. She is an actress and writer. She has enjoyed a successful career in the theatre, cinema and on television for thirty-five years and has received many awards, among which Best Actress at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. She is a columnist for the newspaper Folha de São Paulo and the magazine Veja-Rio and contributes to the magazine Piauí. FIM is her first novel.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：FIM (THE END): Brazil: Companhia das Letras (pub November 2013); France: Gallimard; Holland: De Bezige Bij; Italy: Einaudi; Portugal: Objectiva; Romania: Trei.
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