CREATIVE TRUTHS IN PROVINCIAL POLICING
Book ID/图书代码： 00200014B73488
English Summary/英文概要： Everyone has dreams, and Chief Duong of the Vietnamese Central Highland Police Force is no exception. He aspires to a desk job in Hanoi and perhaps, at the end of his career, a statue on the roundabout in his hometown.
So when an opportunity comes up to marry off his beautiful daughter to an influential politician and the only thing standing in his way is the small matter of a dowry – a sum easily obtained by a visit to the town’s money lender – what right-thinking person would fail to do so?
Well, possibly his wife. Relations with Mrs Duong have been frosty ever since two road accidents rendered their daughter blind, their son mute, and Mrs Duong convinced that the marital union – one enacted between North and South, and sown from the seeds of civil war – have been doomed from the start.
And Mrs Duong might be right about the doom, because on the afternoon of the wedding a murder occurs.
It puts paid to the police chief’s plans, and throws his daughter into the hands of an unscrupulous money lender, while his son renounces human society to liberate captive monkeys and his wife is incarcerated in an institution for the insane.
Can things get any worse?
Armed only with his trusty manual Creative Truths in Provincial Policing, Chief Duong steps outside the law for the first time in his life and concocts a plan to kidnap a touring British footballer to raise the ransom for his daughter – thus inadvertently detonating a global crisis and a nationwide man hunt. As it turns out, things can get a whole lot worse before they get any better….
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 每个人都有梦想，越南中部高地的警察局长Duong 也不例外。 他渴望在河内的办公室工作, 或许在他的职业生涯结束时,在他的家乡交叉路口还能立上一座雕像。
就这样一个机会出现了，他可以将他漂亮的女儿嫁给一位很有影响力的政客，而唯一让他操心就只有嫁妆这点小事了——如果去找镇上放贷的，容易就能弄到这笔钱，—— 这事儿要换成哪个思维正常的人不会去这样做呢?
可能也就他的妻子Duong夫人会反对的。自从两次交通事故导致他们的女儿失明，儿子哑巴了以后，他们夫妻的关系一直很冷漠了。Duong夫人深信婚姻的结合从一开始就已经注定了！就像南部和北部之间的规矩，自内战时就已深深扎根了。
Mrs Duong也许是对的，因为在下午的婚礼上，一起谋杀就发生了。
警察局长的计划泡汤了,他把自己的女儿到葬送到了无耻的放贷人之手,而他的儿子与世隔离去释放被监禁的猴子了，他的妻子也被监禁在所一精神病院内。
情况还能变得更糟吗?
仅仅就凭着这本可靠的《地方警察的创造性真理》指南, Duong生平第一次用法律之外的方法制定了一起计划：绑架一位正旅游的英国足球运动员，提高赎金来救他的女儿——没想到的是的是又激起了全球性危机和全国范围的搜捕。事实证明：人们总是在贪心的想要得到更多好处时却总是是赔了夫人又折兵。（LNL）
Awards/获奖情况：周日的独立报评论到：“他极具语言天赋和极好的想象力。”
‘Genius for language and superb imaginative abilities.’ Independent on Sunday
About the Author/作者介绍： Mark Haddon用“异乎寻常的离奇”来形容 Paula的第一部小说 《Calamity Lee 的第一本书》，以至于很难描述接下来出现的独特的黑色喜剧场景，并且也很难表达这位才华惊人的作家的心声。
Mark Haddon described Paula’s first novel The First Book of Calamity Leek as ‘wonderfully strange’ – that hardly begins to describe the continuing emergence of the unique, darkly comedic vision and voice of this astonishingly talented writer.
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