HAPPY EVA AFTER
Book ID/图书代码： 03540013B66206
English Summary/英文概要： Happy Eva After is a seriously witty novel about a bloke, his wife, his dog, an alluring young woman with a mysterious past, and the nuances of the English language.
As a teacher at the Fawlty Towers of London language colleges, Sebastian Pink is accustomed to confusion caused by the complexities of the English language.
Married to Sarah, a career woman who has long been a total workaholic but is now desperate for a baby, Sebastian feels ambivalent about becoming a parent. Sarah has effectively been absent from his life for so long that they’ve grown apart and these days his social life has come to revolve around his work; walking his dog, Claude; and his obsessive daily completion of the cryptic crossword.
When an alluring Czech student called Eva becomes one of Sebastian’s students - and inadvertently provides him with the last solution in his morning crossword - he finds himself drawn into a sordid suburban tangle based mainly on his own misinterpretations and feverish imagination.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《永远快乐的伊娃》是一部极为睿智的小说作品，有关于一个傻瓜、他的妻子和他的狗的故事，一名有着神秘过去的迷人年轻女子、有关于英语语言的精妙之处。
塞巴斯安•平克是位于菲尔蒂旅馆的伦敦语言学校的一名教师，对于英语语言的复杂精深所引发的的种种困惑之处，他已经逐渐习以为常。
塞巴斯安娶了一名职业女性莎拉，然而一直以来的工作狂人莎拉如今却迫切地渴望能拥有一个孩子，对于从此升为人父，塞巴斯安的内心深处实则十分茫然与模糊。事实上，自从两人长大后分离，莎拉已经离开他的生活很长一段时间了，而这些年来， 他的生活重心已逐渐围绕着自己的工作而展开，每天，他带着狗狗克劳德散步；另一件他的每日必做功课便是完成让他痴迷不已的填字游戏。
伊娃是一名迷人的捷克少女，她来到了塞巴斯安的班上----一次偶然的机会她帮助塞巴斯安解开了他每日清晨的必修功课--填字游戏的最后一关---塞巴斯安才发现自己完全地沉浸在了古板乏味的谜团之中，更糟糕的是这一切都是建立在他自己狂热的想象和误解之上。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 克里•斯哈里森是一名记者、编辑及获奖作家。他为诸多报刊杂志以及网站撰稿，其中包括《悉尼先驱晨报》《时代》《卫报》《先驱太阳报》以及《运动画刊》等。
其畅销旅行回忆录《头朝下的生活》已被出版刊登在ANZ、英国和美国等国，并被翻译成四种语言，制作成有声书读物并被编至《读者文摘》上。此外，该部作品还因为谈及意大利人在澳大利亚的生活而获得了2008年度维克多文学处女作奖。
作者的下部作品，同时也是他的第一部小说作品《永远快乐的伊娃》将由ANZ的Allen & Unwin与2013年11月出版发行。
克里斯从小在澳大利亚和英格兰长大。从学校毕业后，他成为了一名特技飞行员。随后他在麦考瑞大学学习了通讯工程及英国文学，后前往意大利进行了长达五年的冒险旅行，并与一名意大利女子结婚，育有两子。后来的五年里，她在伦敦担任记者和语言教师的工作，他还曾于城市大学担任出版学硕士学位的客座讲师，近来他与家人又回到了澳大利亚。
现阶段克里斯回到了悉尼生活，并作为一名记者在新闻有限公司工作。最近他还从事一个每周专栏的写作，该栏目将出现在新闻有限集团旗下诸多杂志报刊的头条以及相关网站之上。
Chris Harrison is a journalist, editor and award-winning author. He has contributed to a variety of newspapers, magazines and websites, including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Guardian, The Herald Sun and Sports Illustrated.
His bestselling travel memoir, Head Over Heel, has been published in ANZ, the UK and the US as well as translated into four languages, made into an audio book and abridged in Readers’ Digest. It also won the Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing About Italians in Australia at the 2008 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.
His next book and first novel Happy Eva After will be published by Allen & Unwin in ANZ in November 2013.
Chris grew up in Australia and England. After school he became an aerobatics pilot. He then studied Communications and English Literature at Macquarie University before venturing to Italy where he lived for five years and married an Italian, with whom he has two children.
After a subsequent five years in London, where he worked as a journalist and language teacher, as well as being guest lecturer in the MA Publishing degree at City University, he and his family recently returned to Australia.
He currently lives in Sydney where he works as an editor for News Limited. Until recently, he also wrote a weekly column which appeared across a variety of News Limited mastheads and websites.
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