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定价:14.99 英镑
上传日期:2014-4-1 0:00:00

THE KINDNESS

Book ID/图书代码: 03277014B68519

English Summary/英文概要: A portrait of a doomed relationship, told by two unreliable narrators, filled with perception, misunderstandings and layers of truth. Julia, who is her 30s and Julian, a 20 something student, fall in love and end up having a baby. In an attempt to make the relationship work and hold the family together Julian buys a house. Instead of keeping them together his action becomes the milestone to their constantly deteriorating and crumbling relationship. But, nothing is as it seems, as both Julia and Julian are keeping secrets from each other. Everything is a lie…

Chinese Summary/中文概要: 两名不可信的叙述者,刻画了一段命中注定的关系,满是感知、误解和层层叠叠的真相。30多岁的茱莉亚和20多岁的学生朱利安相爱了,并且两人有了一个孩子。为了尝试让这段关系长久下去,让这个家庭能够团结在一起,朱利安买下了一座房子。然而他的行为并没有让这个家庭紧密的维系在一起,相反的反而成了导致关系持续不断恶化和崩塌的开始。然而一切都远非表面上看来的那样,对于两个各自心怀秘密的人而言,一切都不过是谎话一场。。。。。。(DC)

Awards/获奖情况:充满学识。。。。。。专注,时而戏剧化,时而热情洋溢,再加上一群显然极度鲜活、安排得当并心满意足的人物,萨姆森追寻着那一丝丝小小的颤动,威胁破坏着她笔下人物们的稳定关系以及他们自身。-----皮特??坎普,《星期日泰晤士报》

精彩绝伦。妙趣横生,刻画完美且充满了犀利的特质,他们都是萨姆森迄今为止所创造出来的最美的人事。。。。。。这是一名从不错过的作家。---克里希达??康诺利,《观察家》

细腻且复杂。。。。。。《完美生活》就像是一座回响室,里面充斥着因与果,艺术与生活,生活与失去。---卡罗尔??卡德维拉德尔,《观察家报》

Accomplished... Focusing, sometimes comically, sometimes compassionately, on apparently prospering, well-organised and contented people, Samson traces tremors of disruption threatening the stability of her characters’ relationships and themselves– Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times on PERFECT LIVES

Terrific. Funny, beautifully observed and often poignant, they’re the best thing Samson has produced yet... This is a writer who misses nothing– Cressida Connolly, Spectator on PERFECT LIVES

Subtle and complex... PERFECT LIVES is an echo chamber of cause and effect, and art and life, and life and loss – Carole Cadwalladr, Observer on PERFECT LIVES

‘A beautifully written and intricately constructed piece of writing; shining, poetic, and sumptuous… Polly Samson is a writer of great insight and sensitivity; her novel is moving, wistful, wise, and ultimately hopeful; grown up in all the right ways, but still with a simplicity that comes directly from the heart’ – Joanne Harris

‘Dark, sensual and clever. I loved this book so much I finished then started re-reading it to see how she did it’ – JojoMoyes

‘This book is a gift, a testament to the power of art as a saving grace’ – Susannah Cahalan, author of Brain on Fire

‘A gem of a novel’ – Bookseller

‘A gorgeously chilling novel about grief and betrayal’ –Independent on Sunday

‘A brilliant new novel… [Samson is] a master at capturing the intricacies of human emotion’ – Harper’s Bazaar

‘A sumptuous, serious story about how an act of immerse love can at the same time be one of terrible betrayal’ – Daily Mail

‘Atmospheric and vividly told’ – Tatler

‘A poetic, sensual story of secrets and lies… Writer and lyricist Samson’s prose is dazzlingly evocative, as she explores how relationships are rarely what they seem’ – Glamour

‘A powerful love story’ – Marie Claire

‘A razor-sharp dissection of a relationship, this is exquisitely written and plotted’ – Woman and Home

About the Author/作者介绍: 波利·萨姆森,1962年出生于伦敦。著有两部饱受赞誉的故事集合一部小说作品,还曾为两部销量第一的专辑创作歌词。其小说作品OUT OF THE PICTURE曾入围作家俱乐部小说首作奖,其近期的故事集《完美生活》获得《星期日泰晤士报》年度最佳小说选择称号,并在BBC广播4台上被阅读。波利曾在出版行业从事记者和专栏作家工作,并曾在平克??佛洛依德的“The Division Bell”和大卫??吉尔默的“On An Island”专辑中担任词作者。近期她为达芙妮·杜穆里埃的作品THE DOLL AND OTHER STORIES作序并于2004年担任Costa奖评委。

Polly Samson was born in London in 1962. She is the author of two highly acclaimed story collections and a novel and has written lyrics for two number one albums. Her novel, OUT OF THE PICTURE, was shortlisted for the Author Club’s First Novel Award and her most recent linked story collection, PERFECT LIVES, was a Sunday Times Fiction Choice of the Year and read on BBC Radio 4. Polly has worked in publishing and as a journalist and columnist and as a lyricist for Pink Floyd’s ‘The Division Bell’ and David Gilmour’s ‘On An Island’. She recently wrote the introduction to Daphne du Maurier’s THE DOLL AND OTHER STORIES and was a Costa Prize judge in 2004.

Format:HARDCOVER

Rights Status/版权销售情况:Simplified Chinese/简体中文:AVAILABLE

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文:AVAILABLE

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况:Unorosso (Italy), Record (Brazil) and Pantagruel (Norway).

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