AFTER ME COMES THE FLOOD
Book ID/图书代码： 11701214B71530
English Summary/英文概要： One hot summer’s day, John Cole decides to leave his life behind.
He shuts up the bookshop no one ever comes to and drives out of London. When his car breaks down and he becomes lost on an isolated road, he goes looking for help, and stumbles into the grounds of a grand but dilapidated house.
Its residents welcome him with open arms - but there’s more to this strange community than meets the eye. They all know him by name, they’ve prepared a room for him, and claim to have been waiting for him all along.
As nights and days pass John finds himself drawn into a baffling menagerie. There is Hester, their matriarchal, controlling host; Alex and Claire, siblings full of child-like wonder and delusions; the mercurial Eve; Elijah - a faithless former preacher haunted by the Bible; and chain-smoking Walker, wreathed in smoke and hostility. Who are these people? And what do they intend for John?
Elegant, gently sinister and psychologically complex, After Me Comes The Flood is a haunting and hypnotic debut novel by a brilliant new voice.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在一个炎热的夏日，约翰•科尔决定抛开自己现有的生活。
他关闭了那个从未有人光顾的书店，驱车驶出伦敦。当他的汽车在一条独立的小道上发生故障，他迷路了，于是往前寻找帮助，他蹒跚着进入了一座宏大却破败的屋舍之中。屋子里的居住者热情的欢迎着他---然而这个奇怪的社区背后却隐藏着人言所看不见的东西。他们都知道他的名字，他们早已为他准备好了房间，并宣称早已在等待他的到来。
随着日夜的流逝，约翰发现自己逐渐被吸引至了一个令人困惑的多样小团体中。海斯特是他们的大家长，主要负责招待；艾利克斯与克莱尔，充满孩童般好奇心与幻象的兄妹；乖戾善变的伊娃；毫无诚信可言的前牧师伊利亚，迷醉于圣经；烟不离口的沃克尔，成日被包裹在烟雾与敌意之中。这些人究竟是谁？他们对于约翰又究竟有着怎样的意图？
优雅而又带有着一丝温柔的邪恶与心理的复杂，《在我之后，洪荒降临》是一部极为令人难忘而又沉迷的小说处女作品，来自于一个全新的睿智之音。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：萨拉•佩里的文风从表面看来直白而平静--然而其中却渗透着一种伟大的深度感，一种几近疯狂的不祥之感围绕着其中那些具有紧张感的时刻。。。。。。它蕴藏着一座屋舍与神秘；一种令人困惑不安的黑暗蓄水池，每个人的注意力都因此而收回，总而言之，它给你一种关于场所的深度不安之感--所有的一切都让我想起福尔斯的《魔法师》，麦斯威尔的《城堡》以及伍尔夫的《致灯塔》。大爱本书。（凯瑟琳•安琪儿，作家，著有UNMASTERED）
Sarah Perry’s prose is, on the surface, straightforward and calm - but a great sense of depth permeates it, and a sense of frantic foreboding builds through its moments of intense colour...A house and the mysteries it contains; a disconcerting, dark reservoir to which everyone’s attention returns, and in general a deeply unsettling sense of place - all made me think of Fowles’ The Magus, Maxwell’s The Chateau, and Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. I loved it. (Katherine Angel, author of UNMASTERED)
AFTER ME COMES THE FLOOD by Sarah Perry has been longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2014:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/08/guardian-first-book-award-2014-long-list
Previous winners include Zadie Smith, Yiyun Li, and Kevin Powers.
About the Author/作者介绍： 萨拉•佩里，1979年出生于埃塞克斯，在一个极度崇尚宗教的家庭中长大。她的童年时期几乎是与当代文化隔绝的，主要沉浸在古典文学，维多利亚时期颂歌以及詹姆斯国王圣经中。她拥有皇家霍洛威学院创造性写作博士学位，并且该学位她是在安德鲁•莫辛的指导下完成。她是一名驻格拉德斯顿图书馆的作家，曾赢得Shiva Naipaul 奖游记写作奖。作者现居诺里奇。
Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979, and grew up in a deeply religious home. Kept apart from contemporary culture, she spent her childhood immersed in classic literature, Victorian hymns and the King James Bible. She has a PhD in creative writing at Royal Holloway which she completed under the supervision of Andrew Motion. She has been writer in residence at the Gladstone Library and is the winner of a Shiva Naipaul award for travel writing. She lives in Norwich.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Serpent’s Tail (pub June 2014)
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