UPSTAIRS AT THE PARTY
Book ID/图书代码： 03540014B67591
English Summary/英文概要： ’If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be understood. I mean the part of yourself that you don’t know how to explain.’
In the early Seventies, a glamorous and androgynous couple known as Evie/Stevie appear out of nowhere on the isolated concrete campus of a new university. To a group of teenagers experimenting with radical ideas, they seem blown back from the future, unsettling everything and uncovering covert desires. But their varnished patina of youth and flamboyant self-expression hides deep anxieties and hidden histories.
For Adele, with the most to conceal, Evie/Stevie become a lifelong obsession, as she examines what happened on the night of her own twentieth birthday and her friends’ complicity in their fate.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 回忆你的生活，你会发现总有那么一些特定的场景，行为，或者说可能是某些事件，决定着后续一系列事情的发展。如果你能够记录下它们，或许你就会获得理解。这里，我所指的是你原先并不知道该如何解释和描述的那部分自己。
70年代早期，一对迷人的夫妇艾维和史蒂夫突然出现在一所新建大学孤立的校园里。面对一群经历着强烈思想波动的青少年们，他们仿佛被未来的风吹来，搅动着一切，揭开大家隐秘的渴望。然而他们精致的年轻面容和激烈的自我表达背后藏着深深的不安和隐藏的历史。
阿黛尔有着大量需要隐瞒的东西，艾维和史蒂夫将成为她毕生的狂热迷恋于信仰，尤其是当她调查了自己20岁生日的那个夜晚究竟发生了什么，以及她的朋友们究竟在她们的命运中合谋着什么。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：From the Orange Prize winning and Man Booker shortlisted novelist…令人难以释怀的书作。。。。。。直至全书的最后一页都精彩无比。(List)
令人不由得联想到《故园风雨后》。。。。。。文风十分优美。。。。。。
格兰特确实拥有让人沉迷的魔法（《标准晚报》）
精彩的优秀小说作品。。。。。。平铺直叙的背后是深入的观察，《楼上的派对》对于一个时代的刻画十分真实，令人信服，关于来自自由的诱惑，其对于愤世心理的刻画也是精妙入微，值得反复思考推敲。（《每日电讯报》）
一部十分吸引人的成长故事(Good Housekeeping)
一部兼具风格和野心的小说作品。(Glamour)
About the Author/作者介绍： 琳达•格兰特，1951年2月15日出生于利物浦。作为一名俄罗斯和波兰籍犹太移民的后代，她在Belvedere School (GDST)学校中接受教育，并于约克大学学习英语语言，于加拿大安大略省汉密尔顿市的麦克马斯特大学获得了英语硕士学位，随后于温哥华市西蒙•弗雷德大学继续深造，并于1977-1984年间居住在当地。
其首部小说 The Cast Iron Shore (1996) 曾赢得David Higham小说首奖，并入围卫报小说奖评选。Remind Me Who I am Again (1998), 记述了其母亲逐步变成痴呆的过程，以及在创造家庭历史的过程中，记忆发挥的巨大作用，该书赢得了 MIND/Allen Lane年度图书奖以及 Age Concern年度图书奖。
作者第二部作品When I Lived in Modern Times (2000)的故事背景发生在Tel Aviv，该书赢得了橘子小说奖，并入围Jewish Quarterly奖和 Encore 奖。她的作品The Clothes On Their Backs (2008)曾入围布克奖评选，并获得South Bank Show奖。其最新的一部小说作品We Had It So Good由Virago于2011年1月出版发行。
琳达的作品已被翻译成法语、德语、荷兰语、丹麦语、捷克语、西班牙语、葡萄牙语、意大利语、瑞典语、俄罗斯语、波兰语、土耳其语及中文。
琳达•格兰特现居伦敦北部。
Linda Grant was born in Liverpool on 15 February 1951. The child of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants, she was educated at the Belvedere School (GDST), read English at the University of York, completed an M.A. in English at MacMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario and did further post-graduate studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, where she lived from 1977 to 1984.
Her first novel, The Cast Iron Shore (1996) won the David Higham First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize. Remind Me Who I am Again (1998), an account of her mother’s decline into dementia and the role that memory plays in creating family history, won the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year award and the Age Concern Book of the Year award.
Her second novel, When I Lived in Modern Times (2000), set in Tel Aviv in the last years of the British Mandate, won the Orange Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Prize and the Encore Prize. Her Booker Prize shortlisted novel, The Clothes On Their Backs (2008), won the South Bank Show award. Her latest novel, We Had It So Good, was published by Virago in January 2011.
Her work has been translated into French, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Czech, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Chinese.
Linda Grant lives in North London.
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