THE BLIND MAN OF SEVILLE
Book ID/图书代码： 00200004B09048
English Summary/英文概要： The first in Robert Wilson’s Seville series, featuring the tortured detective Javier Falcon.
The man is bound, gagged and dead in front of his television.The terrible self-inflicted wounds tell of his violent struggle to avoid some unseen horror. On the screen? In his head? What could make a man do that to himself? It’s Easter week in Seville, a time of passion and processions. But detective Javier Falcón is not celebrating. Appalled by the victim’s staring eyes he is inexorably drawn into this disturbing, mystifying case. And when the investigation into the dead man’s life sends Javier trawling though his own past and into the shocking journals of his late father, a famous artist, his unreliable memory begins to churn. Then there are more killings and Falcón finds himself pushed to the edge of a terrifying truth…
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是罗伯特·威尔森（Robert Wilson）塞维利亚系列的第一部，以扭曲的侦探贾维尔·法尔肯（Javier Falcon）为主。
一个男人被绑着，嘴里塞着堵嘴物，死在了他家的电视机前。可怕的创伤证实他曾拼命挣扎试图避免看不见的恐惧。是什么让他如此害怕？是在屏幕上还是在他头脑里的东西？是什么会让一个人这样对自己？这周是塞尔维亚的复活节，是热情和游行的时间。但是贾维尔·法尔肯侦探没有融入这喜庆的氛围。他被死者张大的眼睛所震惊，脑海里挥之不去的都是这件扰人的悬疑的案件。当调查深入到死者的生活，令贾维尔侦探想起了关于他已故父亲的惊人报道，不禁心潮澎湃。他父亲是著名艺术家。之后又有几件杀人案，法尔肯发现他离真相越来越近，不觉毛骨悚然…(XJJ)
Awards/获奖情况：《塞尔维亚的盲人》（The Blind Man of Seville）所获褒奖：
《文学评论》（Literary Review）：“犯罪题材作品不仅仅是写作而已。它没有限制，它没有重复。它时而让你激动，时而让你惊奇，时而又让你满意。这是一部很重要的小说，很好。”
《星期天时报》（Sunday Times）：“节奏明快，情节引人入胜。”
《每日电报》（Daily Telegraph）：“本书绝对令人振奋。”
《卫报》（Guardian）：“本书唤起强有力的共鸣，作为艺术性作品，它相当出众。是保罗·伯维尔（Paul Bowles）永远写不出的侦探小说。”
《休息》（Time Out）：“这是一部惊人的文学侦探小说，写的相当好，虽然有黑暗有恐慌。”
保罗·普利斯顿（Paul Preston），《法兰克》（Franco）作者：“把威尔森的《塞尔维亚的盲人》（The Blind Man of Seville）列为惊悚小说未免有欠公平。对濒临精神崩溃的侦探的描写是心理惊悚的真实写照。好极了！” Praise for The Blind Man of Seville
‘Crime writing at its very best, but it is also something more. It observes no limits, it begs no one’s pardon. It excites, it surprises and it satisfies.This is a fine important novel’---Literary Review
‘Admirably paced and enthrallingly elaborate’ Sunday Times ’The Blind Man of Seville is an ingenious and compelling thriller’---Daily Telegraph
’This is powerful evocative stuff’ Observer ’As an evocation of the emotional labyrinth of postwar Tangiers and as a tale of artistic drift, it’s rather brilliant – a detective story Paul Bowles never wrote’ Guardian A wonderful, if dark and disturbing, literary detective novel’---Time Out
‘To call Robert Wilson’s ‘The Blind Man of Seville’ a thriller is to do a grave injustice to an utterly stunning achievement.The central narrative of the detective on the verge of a nervous breakdown is a psychological thriller of real profundity. Wonderful!’---Paul Preston, author of ‘Franco’
About the Author/作者介绍： 罗伯特·威尔森（Robert Wilson）出生于1957年，他的父亲是皇家飞行员。他毕业于牛津大学英语系。在发生摩托车意外之后，他开始重新考虑自己的运动生涯。
他广泛旅游，到过各个州，在克里特岛工作之前还以考古为由到过尼泊尔。他踏入过海运业和广告业，但是又很快失去了兴趣。神情恍惚是罗伯特的天性，他几乎不敢相信他要整天坐在桌前打字为生。1986年结婚后，他花一年时间和妻子游遍非洲。他后来是这样描述这段经历的：“假如你想知道你是否能和某人共度余生，沙漠会让你更了解自己。”这段经历还给了他写非洲小说的灵感和所需题材。
他一直在非洲西部做航运工作直到拿到英语学位。之后，他爱上了葡萄牙语，然后边写作边重新粉刷孤立的农舍。
他现在是有着八本广受好评的小说的作家。《一起小死亡》（A Small Death）在里斯本获得了金匕首奖最佳小说奖（CWA Gold Dagger）。《贾维尔·法肯》（Javier Falcon）好评如潮。《暗藏杀机》（The Hidden Assassins）将在七月问世，是这一系列最新的一本小说。
Robert Wilson was born in 1957, the son of an RAF pilot. After graduating from Oxford in English, he was forced to re-think his sporting career following a motoring accident.
He travelled extensively, touring the states and travelling to Nepal in a VW van before working in Crete on archaeological tours. He then took jobs in shipping and advertising but soon grew restless.
Wandering is in Rob’s nature and he can hardly believe he makes his living sitting at a desk typing. After marrying in 1986 he spent a year travelling across Africa with his wife, an experience he recommends "if you want to know if you can live with someone for the rest of your life... the desert tells you things about yourself". It would also teach him everything he needed to know to write his atmospheric African novels.
He continued work in shipping in West Africa until eventually his English degree caught up with him: he fell in love with Portugal and began renovating an isolated farmhouse while beginning to write his first novel.
He is now the writer of eight critically acclaimed novels. A Small Death in Lisbon won the CWA Gold Dagger for best novel and his Javier Falcon have been published to critical acclaim. The Hidden Assassins is the latest in the series, published in July.
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