HIGHER ED: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 11980514B74199
English Summary/英文概要： A vivid and vivacious novel about real London lives today.
A university administrator and a film lecturer wait to hear if they will survive the next
round of budget cuts; a West Indian council worker long estranged from his daughter gets a second chance at fatherhood; a Polish waitress strives to make a better life for herself and her mother.
As the beat of the capital pulses, these five East-Londoners each long for a life less complicated. But in a city of imperilled jobs, uncertain status and insufficient cash,there is no such thing.
Higher Ed is a novel that could only have been written post-2008. Fizzling with life and with truth, it is a profound portrait of the way we live our lives today.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这部小说生动活泼地描绘了伦敦现在的生活。
一位高校管理员和一位电影助教焦急地等待着裁员结果；一位与女儿疏远多年的西印度议会工人得到了第二次当父亲的机会；一位波兰女服务员拼命努力想为自己和母亲赚得更好的生活。
在快速的城市节奏下，这五个东伦敦人都希望各自的生活能够简单一点。但在这个无法找到工作、充满不确定、资金也匮乏的城市，生活从来都不会简单。
《高等教育》的写作背景只可能发生在2008年之后。这部小说描绘了生活的真相，尖锐地刻画了我们当前的生活方式。
“《高等教育》充满热情的讽刺和狡猾的政治，真实描绘了当下的伦敦生活。只有伦敦人才能写出这样的一部作品。”——《米耶维》（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：‘A wryly passionate, slyly political and engrossing concatenation of London lives, that
only a Londoner by choice could have written.’ — China Miéville
About the Author/作者介绍： 泰莎•麦克沃特曾写过五部小说，一部为年轻人写的中篇小说《没有一个地方》。她的第二部小说《龙之泪》，被提名为“多伦多图书奖”和“总督文学奖”。她的其他作品还有《这具尸体》（2004年柯林斯奖和2005年麦克米伦•加勒比奖）、《步步靠近》（2009年柯林斯奖）、《生命特征》（2011年加拿大兰登书屋奖和2012年威廉海兰登书屋奖），被提名2012年OCM博卡奖加勒比海文学奖。泰莎在东伦敦大学教授创意写作，她也是在那获得创意写作的学士和硕士学位，并建立了联合环境写作中心。
TESSA McWATT is the author of five previous novels and There’s No Place Like..., a novella for young adults. Her second novel, Dragons Cry, was shortlisted for The Toronto Book Awards and the Governor General’s Literary Award. Her other novels include This Body (HarperCollins 2004 and Macmillan Caribbean 2005), Step Closer (HarperCollins 2009), and Vital Signs (Random House Canada 2011 and William Heinemann 2012), which was nominated for the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. She teaches creative writing at the University of East London where she developed the BA and MA in Creative Writing and founded the UEL Writing Centre.
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