THE CORE OF THE SUN
Book ID/图书代码： 04320214B67144
English Summary/英文概要： The nation has taken heed of its historic mistakes. Social stability and national health have become its most important values. The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has illegalised practically everything that might give you pleasure or cause addiction. Well, almost everything. There are some exceptions that prove the rule. Such as gambling and sex.
The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland wants the distribution of sex, an essential commodity of pleasure, to be as efficient as possible. In order to achieve this, the state scientific system has bred a new human sub-species: one that is receptive, submissive and always willing.
They used to be called women. Vanna and Jare meet. They join forces to get a ticket out of this place. They become involved in buying and selling a stimulant known to be extremely dangerous in the Eusistocratic Republic of Finland.
They start dealing chilli. Then Jare comes across a strange religious cult in possession of the Core of the Sun.
The Core of the Sun is almost too hot to handle. Does this inhumanly pungent chilli have effects that justify its prohibition?
Taking place in an alternative Finland, Johanna Sinisalo’s thriller-like story of flight and fight is also a feisty, between-the-lines social polemic. How did Finland turn into the North Korea of Europe? Does someone else always know what is best for us? Is this really the kind of gender system that the sociologists calling for male empowerment want?
A chilli aficionado herself, Johanna Sinisalo has
written a novel that, ablaze with the fire of the
spice, is certain to make the reader’s cheeks burn.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 芬兰的Eusistocratic共和国实际上的所有的非法活动都能让你沉湎于无尽的享乐之中，除了性和赌博。
Eusistocratic共和国想要把性规划定额配给，把当作为一种给人愉悦的必要商品，尽可能地让其实现效益最大化，为了实现这一目标，国家的科学系统部门为人类孕育出了一个新的附带品种：一种毫无怨言的，容纳包容的附带子文件。人们曾经称之为女人的产品。
瓦娜和杰瑞德相遇了。二人联手搞到了一张离开Eusistocratic共和国的车票，而他们二人积极参与买卖的活动在芬兰的这个共和国也是极其危险的。现在二人捎上了辣椒开始交易。
然后杰瑞德无意中发现了太阳核心处的一种奇特宗教崇拜。
由于太阳核心处实在过热无法做任何事。而他们所带的辛辣刺鼻的辣椒是否能起作用呢？（Sandy）
Awards/获奖情况：The Core of the Sun nominated for 2013’s best science fiction book published in Finland! 《太阳核心》描绘了一个反乌托邦式的一个虚拟的芬兰Eusistocratic共和国。在这个国度性已经变成一种商品,而女人根据他们的能力被培育成两种反差较大的生物亚种，为男人提供快乐和生育孩子。
芬兰文学期刊称Sinisalo的这部梦幻之作的基调给人一种“高度感官”和她的这部作品讽刺意境直击“犀利地命中目标”。
“Sinisalo为芬兰文坛带来了一股全新的打破界限的，被称作科幻创作“芬兰怪异之风”。在她的小说,幻想作为催化剂将人性和(社会，组织)权力结构的阴暗一面表露无遗“业界对这部作品的评论仍在继续之中。
“The Core of the Sun is Johanna Sinisalo’s (b. 1958) best novel since the Finlandia Prize-winning Not Before Sundown (2000).
The story inhabits the same sphere as The Handmaid’s Tale (1986) by Margaret Atwood, who figured in last week’s Nobel Prize speculations.
Both authors build a dystopia where women’s rights have been shorn to a minimum. In practical terms, women have been turned into walking wombs and instruments for men’s pleasure.
Atwood’s society was created by Christian fundamentalists, while in Sinisalo’s book, the Eusistocratic Republic of Finland is the result of a nanny state gone mad. (…)
Whereas Atwood creates a detailed world in the style of Tolkien, Sinisalo paints her nightmare vision with quick cuts and fictional text fragments.
In The Core of the Sun, the story unfolds through controlled torrents of precisely delineated scenes, images, and differing registers. Sinisalo demonstrates her mastery of rhythm, which she has honed writing scripts for television and cinema.“ – Helsingin Sanomat, Finland
PRIZES
FINLANDIA PRIZE 2000: Not Before Sundown/Troll – A Love Story
JAMES TIPTREE, JR. AWARD 2004: Not Before Sundown/Troll – A Love Story
NOMINATED FOR THE NEBULA AWARDS 2008: Baby Doll
P. E . SVINHUFVUD AWARD 2011: The Blood of Angels
THE YOUNG ALEKSIS KIVI PRIZE 2012: The Blood of Angels and Birdbrain
NOMINATED FOR THE PRIX ESCAPADES 2012: Birdbrain
About the Author/作者介绍： 约翰娜•斯尼罗莎生于1958年，是芬兰最为成功的也是享誉国家文坛的一位作家。深受读者和业界好评，并获得过无数奖项，其中包括2000年的芬兰奖，和2004年的James Triptree, Jr奖。这位芬兰女作家还曾被2012年的Prix Escapades奖和2008年星云奖的提名作者。她的作品已经被翻译成18种语言。Johanna Sinisalo (b. 1958), master of Finnish weird, is one of Finland’s most successful and
internationally acclaimed authors. Praised by readers and critics alike, she has won several
literary prizes, among them the Finlandia Prize in 2000 and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award
in 2004. Her works have been translated into 18 languages. Johanna Sinisalo is one of the
screenwriters of the science fiction action comedy film Iron Sky.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights sold:
Czech Republic: Euromedia
France: Actes Sud
Germany: Klett-Cotta
Original publisher: Finland, Teos
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