THE INCARNATIONS
Book ID/图书代码： 13160014B68014
English Summary/英文概要： The first letter falls into Driver Wang’s lap as he flips down the visor in his taxi on Worker’s Stadium road in Beijing, a polluted, congested city of rapid development, preparing for the 2008 Olympics. More letters follow, telling the stories of Wang’s previous lives bound to this mysterious ‘soulmate’, spanning a thousand years of Chinese history. One letter tells of his life as a Eunuch during the Tang Dynasty of the C6th, another a Jurchen, enslaved by Genghis Khan’s Mongol hoards as they rampaged across the Gobi Dessert. In other lives, a Ming Dynasty concubine; a fisherman during the Opium War and a teenage Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution.
This is an extraordinary novel of ambition and scope, inspired by Chinese folklore, literary classics and history. Beautifully written, The Incarnations seamlessly moves back and forth between Wang’s struggle to be a dutiful husband and father in modern-day Beijing, and the exhilarating, horrifying tales of his past incarnations.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 第一封信讲述了出租车司机王乘坐着出租车行驶在北京的工人体育场路上，压下帽檐，这是一座为了准备2008年奥运会而备受污染、拥堵不堪的快速发展的城市。随着后面越来越多的信件接踵而至，你将了解王此前与这一神秘“灵魂伴侣”的故事，可以说跨越了中国千年的历史。在一封信中，他被描述成六世纪中国唐朝的一名宦官，在另封信中，他是一名受到成吉思汗奴役的女真人，在成吉思汗横扫戈壁沙漠的途中被俘。在明代他还曾是君王的妃子；在鸦片战争时期是一名渔人，而到了文革时期，他则是一名红卫兵。
这是一本有关于野心与见识的精彩小说，创作灵感来自于中国民间传说，经典文学作品和历史故事。《化身》一书文笔优美，天衣无缝的穿梭在王的内心斗争中，一边是作为生活在现代北京的一名肩负责任的丈夫与父亲，而另一边则是他从过去到现在的一个个激动人心却又可怕的化身故事。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：你是谁？你一定在扪心自问。我是你的灵魂伴侣，你的老朋友，我来到这座有着1600万人口的城市，只为寻找你。我同情你可怜的妻子，王。比起我们两人间千年的情谊和联系，婚姻关系又算什么？如果我重新出现在你的生活中，那么你的妻子又将会怎样？
Who are you? you must be wondering. I am your soulmate, your old friend, and I have come back to this city of sixteen million in search of you. I pity your poor wife, Driver Wang. What’s the bond of matrimony compared to the bond we have shared for over a thousand years? What will happen to her when I reappear in your life?
About the Author/作者介绍： 苏珊•贝克在伦敦东部长大，她的母亲是一名中国人，父亲则是英国人。她著有两部小说作品“Sayonara Bar ”和“ The Orientalist and the Ghost ”，两部作品均荣获有迪伦•托马斯将入围提名。
Susan Barker grew up in East London with a Chinese mother and a British father, and is the author of two novels Sayonara Bar and The Orientalist and the Ghost, both longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
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