THE ILLUMINATIONS

Book ID/图书代码： 11701213B66834

English Summary/英文概要： How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or is it better to let it go? THE ILLUMINATIONS, Andrew O’Hagan’s fifth novel, is a beautiful, deeply charged story about love and memory, about modern war and the complications of fact.

Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was in her youth a pioneer of British documentary photography. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain with the Royal Western Fusiliers, is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan, part of a convoy taking equipment to the electricity plant at Kajaki. Only when Luke returns home to Scotland does Anne’s secret story begin to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我们对所爱的人能有多少？为什么真相总是淹没在秘密中？我们可以从过往中获取什么，或必须学会去忘却掉？安德鲁的这第五部主打爱情和追忆的小说中，为我们阐述了这个关于现代战争和现实混沌之间的故事。 伫立在海边寓所的窗前，Annie Quirky看见一只兔子在雪中消失。如今没人能记得的这位老妇，曾是英国纪实摄影的先驱。她心爱的孙子，Luck，现在是皇家西火枪团的舰长，正赶赴阿富汗的服役路程中，执行护送设备给卡加克的电力厂。只有当Luck回到苏格兰的家中，Annie，在布莱克浦的一家老招待所内曾经的一个房间的秘密才会婉婉而出。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：You could argue ( as I would) that only in fiction as good as this will you find war, sex, nationalism and the care of the elderly , truthfully handled. The Illuminations is a novel which validates the greatness of fiction in hands as masterly as Andrew O’Hagan. Read it and see what I mean (John Sutherland The Times)

[Andrew O’Hagan’s] impressive new novel ... moves with bold, imaginative daring and a troubled intensity between men at war and women with their children, between Scotland and Afghanistan, between photography and fiction, and between memory and secrets ... it is using the real world to ask real, difficult and important questions: about how the truth gets reshaped and rearranged, and about whether, under every kind of circumstance, it is possible to be true to yourself. (Hermione Lee Guardian)

It’s a measure of O’Hagan’s compassion that after balancing these stories of war and family - braving the battlefield and braving the passing of time - the ultimate note is hopeful and almost gentle, of something that seems real and vital. (Lucy Daniel Daily Telegraph)

’The Illuminations is a book at once both tender and ambitious. In the writing of it, O’Hagan has cast a shimmering light on love and memory, life and loss and on the secrets we keep from those closest to us, sometimes even from ourselves.’ (Elizabeth Day Observer)

In his fifth novel, Andrew O’Hagan examines topical subjects - war, nationalism, technology - and eternal themes like family and the effects of time. As you’ll expect if you’ve read [O’Hagan’s] other novels, which include the Man Booker shortlisted Be Near Me, he achieves this with such elegance that it’s easy to underestimate the power of The Illuminations until its ending. Several times I was reminded of Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections because O’Hagan dramatises the ways lives twist and turn in concert with history, locating the precious and profound in the everyday. (Max Liu Independent on Sunday)

What a brilliantly versatile writer Andrew O’Hagan is ... [he] pulls the threads of his narrative together with consummate skill. It is beautifully done. (Max Davidson Mail on Sunday)

About the Author/作者介绍： 安德鲁•奥哈根是英国当地最具影响力的一位小说家之一，曾两度入围布克奖提名。2003年，他被格兰塔出版社评选为英国最佳年轻小说作家之一。他还曾获得《洛杉矶时报》图书奖，和美国艺术与科学院E.M.Foster奖。作者目前定居伦敦。

Andrew O’Hagan was born in Glasgow in 1968. His first book, THE MISSING, was published in 1995 and shortlisted for the Esquire/Waterstone’s/Apple Non-Fiction Award. OUR FATHERS, his debut novel, was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. His second novel, PERSONALITY, was published in 2003 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. In January of that year Granta named him one of the ’Best of Young British Novelists’ and in April he received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He lives in London.

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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Faber (pub February 2015) ; US: Farrar Straus & Giroux; Canada: McClelland & Stewart; France: Bourgois; Germany: Fischer; Greece: Polis

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