AMNESIA
Book ID/图书代码： 11701214B68674
English Summary/英文概要： Has a young Australian woman declared cyber war on the United States? (The Justice Department thinks so.) Or was her Angel Worm intended only to open the prison doors of those unfortunates detained by Australia’s harsh immigration policies? Did American suffer collateral damage? Can she be extradited to a country with the death penalty? Is she innocent? Can she be saved?
Enter her mother, the actress Celine Baillieux. With Céline comes the outrageous Woody Townes, a Melbourne property developer, millionaire, and patron of left wing causes. Murray delivers half a million dollars bail to the court, appoints a distinguished lawyer, and hires an old mate to write a biography to vindicate the young woman.
The old mate is Felix Moore, known to his fellow journalists as Felix Moore-or-less correct. His politics are far too left. His grasp of reality is sometimes unreliable. He is a magnet for law suits. His career is over, and then he gets this chance. I had fought the good fight all my life , he confesses, but I had also become an awful creature along the way.
It will be our great good fortune to live inside Felix’s comic, cowardly, angry, fundamentally humane character as he attempts to find redemption.
Amnesia is a masterful novel, both dark and funny, whose tangled roots drive deep into the denied history of the United States, the CIA, and its relationship with it’s old friend and client, Australia.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 年轻的澳大利亚女性是否真的在美国宣告了互联网战争的到来？（至少司法部门是这样认为的。）是否有可能她的此举仅为诱饵，其目的其实在于打开关着因澳大利亚严苛的移民政策而被囚禁的罪犯们的监狱大门？她是否会被引渡到一个有死刑刑罚的国家？她是清白的吗？她是否还有机会被拯救？
随后出现了年轻澳大利亚女性的母亲，演员赛琳娜•巴里奥。和赛琳娜一起出现的还有狂暴的伍迪•托尼斯，墨尔本的一名房地产开发商，他不仅是一名百万富翁，同时还是左翼事业的支持与赞助者。马瑞向法庭缴纳了50万美金的保释金，请了一名极其著名的律师，并雇佣了一名老朋友写作一本传记以证明这名年轻女性的清白。这名旧友名为菲利克斯•摩尔，他的记者同行们都称他为“或多或少正确的菲利克斯”。然而他的政见过于左派，他对于现实的把握有时显得缺乏可信度。他是各类法律官司的吸铁石。正值其事业一败涂地之际，他的机会却又再次来临。他宣称“我已经进行了一辈子正义的斗争，但为此我也逐渐变成了一个可怕的怪物。”
当菲力克斯在书中尝试获得救赎时，能身临其境地感受其充满戏剧化、怯懦和愤怒，却又在最深处潜藏着人性的形象，实在是十分幸运的。
《失忆》是一本伟大的小说作品，既黑暗又有趣，同时其错综复杂的根基又深入到了美国那段被人们否认的历史，即中央情报局的深处，以及其与旧友及老客户---澳大利亚之间的种种关系。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 皮特•卡瑞，两次布克奖得主，其最近的一部小说’Parrot and Olivier in America"被《纽约客》杂志称为“喜剧经典之作”，且《周末泰晤士报》称之为“一次振奋人心的力量之旅”。该作品于2010年同时入围布克奖与国家图书奖。
Twice winner of the Booker Prize, Peter Carey’s most recent novel Parrot and Olivier in America was described by the New Yorker as ’a comic masterpiece’ and by the Sunday Times as ’an exhilarating tour-de-force’. It was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and a National Book Award in 2010.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Faber (pub Autumn 2014); US: Knopf (pub spring 2015); Australia: Penguin; Canada: Random House: France: Actes Sud; Germany: Fischer; Holland: De Bezige Bij; Italy: Bompiani; Portugal: Gradiva
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