THE HOUSE OF DREAMS

Book ID/图书代码： 03540014B68524

English Summary/英文概要： If you had the chance for a new life, would you take it?

This is the little-known true story of the ‘real Casablanca’. In 1940 an international group of rescue workers, refugee intellectuals and artists gather in the old Villa Air Bel in Marseilles. Every artist sheltered in Air Bel and over 2,000 other refugees escaped from ‘the greatest man-trap in history’, thanks to journalist Varian Fry and his remarkable team at the American Relief Centre (the ARC or Centre Américan de Secours). With the support of Eleanor Roosevelt and funded by the New York-based Emergency Rescue Committee, they helped some 4000 people survive, working undercover and without official sanction from the US or France.

The story of the man some call ‘the artists’ Schindler’ whose humanitarian work saved a generation of Europe’s finest creative minds, interweaves with the fictional story of one of these refugee artists. Gabriel Lambert is a celebrated artist who hides a dark secret. In Marseilles, he took the chance to change his life – and now sixty years later, at his home in the Hamptons, the past is catching up with him.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 假若有新的生活的机会，你会抓住么？

这是鲜为人知的关于“真正的卡萨布兰卡”的真实故事。1940年，一个包括救援人员、难民知识分子和艺术家的国际团体聚集在马赛的老别墅Air Bel。多亏了在美国救援中心的Varian Fry记者和他的著名团队，每个艺术家都在Air Bel找到庇护，超过2000名难民逃离了“历史上最伟大的陷阱”。在Eleanor Roosevelt的支持和纽约总部的紧急救援委员会的资助下，他们帮助4000多人生存下来，受保护的工作，未收到来自美国或法国的官方制裁。

这是有人称之为‘艺术家Schindler’的人的故事，他的人道主义事业挽救了欧洲最具有创造力的头脑，该故事和这些难民艺术家的虚构故事相交织。Gabriel Lambert是隐藏着黑暗秘密的著名艺术家。在马赛，他抓住了改变人生的机会。现在已是60年过后，在汉普顿的家里，过去的故事开始显现出来。(LNL)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Kate成长在德文郡的一个宽广、美丽的地方，在学校时就出版了第一本书。读完达勒姆的哲学和Courtauld研究所的艺术历史后，她从事艺术顾问，在欧洲和中东的宫殿和大使馆里帮助收藏品，被选为英国皇家艺术协会成员。 Kate在国际上都有发表作品，是2009年度ITV的人民作者竞赛的得主。

Kate grew up in a wild and beautiful part of Devon, and was first published while at school. After reading Philosophy at Durham and Art History at the Courtauld Institute, she worked as an art consultant, curating collections for palaces and embassies in Europe and the Middle East, and she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Kate has been published internationally, and was a finalist in the ITV’s The People’s Author competition 2009.

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