THE FAITHFUL COUPLE
Book ID/图书代码： 11701214B68393
English Summary/英文概要： This is the story of a friendship.
A friendship which starts when Neil and Adam, two young men on the cusp of adulthood, meet travelling in California. On a camping trip to Yosemite they lead each other to behave in ways that, years later, they will desperately regret.
Their connection holds true across two decades, through girlfriends and wives, success and failure, children and bereavements, as power and remorse ebb between them.
But can long-term friendship built on shared guilt and secret betrayal last?
Best friends share everything, don’t they?
THE FAITHFUL COUPLE is a nuanced, searching portrait of friendship which asks fierce, unsettling questions about moral responsibility and the claims and knowability of the past.
California, 1993: Neil Collins and Adam Tayler, two young British men on the cusp of adulthood, meet at a hostel in San Diego. They strike up a friendship that, while platonic, feels as intoxicating as a romance; they travel up the coast together, harmlessly competitive, innocently collusive, wrapped up in each other. On a camping trip to Yosemite they lead each other to behave in ways that, years later, they will desperately regret.
The story of a friendship built on a shared guilt and a secret betrayal, THE FAITHFUL COUPLE follows Neil and Adam across two decades, through girlfriends and wives, success and failure, children and bereavements, as power and remorse ebb between them. Their bifurcating fates offer an oblique portrait of London in the boom-to-bust era of the nineties and noughties, with its instant fortunes and thwarted idealism. California binds them together, until-when the full truth of what happened emerges, bringing recriminations and revenge-it threatens to drive them apart.
THE FAITHFUL COUPLE confirms Miller as one of the most exciting and sophisticated novelists in the UK - someone who can tell a great story, with a sense of serious moral complexity.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一个关于友情的故事。
《忠诚的伙伴》对友情的描写微妙而直白，针对道德责任等问题提出了各种尖锐而又令人深思的问题。
《忠诚的伙伴》中的主人公Neil和Adam的友情建立在共同的罪行和秘密的背叛之上。这两个年轻人在加州旅行时相识。在优胜美地露营时，两人犯下了多年后令自己追悔莫及的错误。小说描绘了这对朋友20年间的兴衰沉浮——他们经历了恋爱和婚姻、成功和失败，有了自己的孩子，也承受了丧亲之痛。加利福尼亚将他们的命运紧紧相连。直到真相浮出水面，朋友反目，互相报复。这一切都让他们渐行渐远。他们错综复杂的命运也间接地反映了20世纪90年代和21世纪头10年伦敦从繁荣到萧条的局面。
《忠诚的伙伴》再次证明Miller是英国最令人振奋、最成熟的小说家之一——不光故事讲得好，作品中还体现出严肃的道德复杂性。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：对《忠诚的伙伴》的赞誉：
“有力而动人。我非常喜欢《忠诚的伙伴》。”—— Roddy Doyle
“我被它的复杂性给迷住了……我非常喜欢Neil和Adam的故事……到最后，感觉好像我认识他们，而小说提出的道德问题真的十分常见……（这部小说描绘了一个）动人的故事”——Elif Shafak
“男人间的友情是个棘手的话题——充斥着奉献和竞争，同时也很脆弱——而A. D. Miller写了一部勇敢的小说来探讨这个话题。A. D. Miller针对这段友情提出了鲜明的观点，同时深刻剖析了我们现今所处的社会和文化。”——David Bezmozgis
“《忠诚的伙伴》是一部安静却扣人心弦的作品，充满了令人不安的力量和优雅的魅力；体现了作者对友情、罪恶、道德和阶级的微妙而智慧的思考。”——Emily St. J. Mandel
“引人入胜、优雅，并且非常深刻。令人久久难以忘怀。”——Claire Messud
“读得停不下来。是一部紧张刺激的道德传奇故事。”——Martha Kearney, The BBC
“作为对男性友情的悖论及局限性的探索之作，《忠诚的伙伴》是一本有思想、有智慧、有见地的书。”——《卫报》
“这部作品对男性友情的描写充分体现了作者的天赋……Miller从动物学家的视角揭示出同伴之谊的仪式和动力……小说最厉害的地方就是Miller对日常生活的敏锐捕捉……从容而流畅的风格……Miller是优秀的作者，也是聪明的观察者。阅读《忠诚的伙伴》是一个充满乐趣的过程。”——《泰晤士报》
About the Author/作者介绍： A.D. Miller创作过两部小说和一部非虚构类作品。他的第一部小说《雪融之后》曾位列Sunday Times销售排行榜前十位，一共卖出了150，000本。它被译成了25种语言，并入围了小说布克奖、詹姆斯•泰特•布莱克奖、《洛杉矶时报》图书奖、金匕首奖以及银河系国家图书奖。Miller是《经济学人》的自由撰稿人，曾经是该杂志的驻莫斯科记者及政治编辑。他现在和妻子和孩子们住在伦敦。
A.D. Miller has written two novels and one non-fiction title. His first novel, SNOWDROPS, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and has sold over 150,000 copies. It was translated into twenty-five languages and shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, the James Tait Black Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, the CWA Gold Dagger and the Galaxy National Book Awards. Miller is Writer at Large for the Economist, and was formerly the magazine’s Moscow Correspondent and Political Editor. He lives in London with his wife and children.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Little Brown (pub March 2015); Portugal: Jacaranda
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