LAMENTATION

Book ID/图书代码： 05380014B74433

English Summary/英文概要： The eagerly anticipated new Shardlake novel from the number one bestselling author. Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henry’s successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, and the radical Protestant Anne Askew is burned at the stake, the Catholic party focus their attack on Henry’s sixth wife, Matthew Shardlake’s old mentor, Queen Catherine Parr. Shardlake, still haunted by events aboard the warship Mary Rose the year before, is working on the Cotterstoke Will case, a savage dispute between rival siblings. Then, unexpectedly, he is summoned to Whitehall Palace and asked for help by his old patron, the now beleaguered and desperate Queen. For Catherine Parr has a secret. She has written a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, so radically Protestant that if it came to the King’s attention it could bring both her and her sympathizers crashing down. But, although the book was kept secret and hidden inside a locked chest in the Queen’s private chamber, it has - inexplicably - vanished. Only one page has been found, clutched in the hand of a murdered London printer. Shardlake’s investigations take him on a trail that begins among the backstreet printshops of London but leads him and Jack Barak into the dark and labyrinthine world of the politics of the royal court; a world he had sworn never to enter again. Loyalty to the Queen will drive him into a swirl of intrigue inside Whitehall Palace, where Catholic enemies and Protestant friends can be equally dangerous, and the political opportunists, who will follow the wind wherever it blows, more dangerous than either. The theft of Queen Catherine’s book proves to be connected to the terrible death of Anne Askew, while his involvement with the Cotterstoke litigants threatens to bring Shardlake himself to the stake.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 备受期待的新Shardlake头号畅销书作家的小说。1546年夏天,英王亨利八世缓慢而又痛苦地死去。他的新教和天主教议员所参与的最终的决定性的权力斗争；无论谁获胜都将控制Henry的接班人，八岁的王子Edward.在整个伦敦，异教徒是要被猎杀的。而激进的新教徒Anne Askew被烧死在火刑柱上，天主教党派把他们的主力攻击放在Henry的第六任妻子， Matthew Shardlake的老恩师，Catherine Parr. Shardlake皇后身上，依旧被几年前的战舰Mary Rose事件所影响，正在对Cotterstoke意志的情况下，竞争对手之间的兄弟姐妹一个野蛮的争议。接着，出乎意料的是，他被老船长传唤到白宫，陷入困境而绝望的女王向他寻求帮助。Catherine Parr来说有一个秘密她写过一本忏悔的书《罪人的嗟叹》，所以根本上来说新教如果已经引起国王的注意将会使带给她和她的同情心轰然倒下。但是，尽管这本书被保密以及藏在女王的私人密室里的锁柜里，它还是莫名其妙地消失了。只有一页被发现于攥在一个被谋杀的伦敦印刷工的手里。Shardlake的调查把他带到一个始于伦敦后街印刷铺的线索上但导致把他和Jack Barak带入宫廷政治的黑暗和迷宫般的世界；一个他发誓再也不进入的世界。对女王的忠诚把他推入白宫内部阴谋的漩涡之中，在那里天主教敌人和新教朋友可对他来说同样危险，而政治投机分子，风吹向哪里就支持哪里的人，更是危险。 Catherine女王的书被盗证明了与 Anne Askew 的死亡有联系，而他对Cotterstoke当事人的威胁的参与把他自己直接带入了这场赌注中。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：Shardlake系列真是太棒了。————星期日时报

The Shardlake series is magnificent. Sunday Times

About the Author/作者介绍： C. J. Sansom就读于Birmingham大学，在那里他获得了一个历史学的本科和博士学位。在经历过许多工作之后，他在Sussex再培训成为一个律师并实践中，直到最后成为一个全职的作家。他现居在Sussex。

C. J. Sansom was educated at Birmingham University, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he retrained as a solicitor and practised in Sussex, until becoming a full-time writer. He lives in Sussex.

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