THE ECLIPTIC

Book ID/图书代码： 05380014B74434

English Summary/英文概要： He was just seventeen when he came to Portmantle, a runaway like the rest of us...At Portmantle, a gated refuge for artists on the Turkish island of Heybeliada, the residents are given new names. In the seclusion of the grounds, a curious assembly of once-famous painters, writers, architects, and musicians strive to restore their faded talents. Elspeth ’Knell’ Conroy is a celebrated mural painter who has lost faith in her art. She has found three kindred spirits at the refuge: MacKinney, a playwright wrangling with the dramas of her past; Pettifer, a jaded architect refining sketches for a vast cathedral; and Quickman, a novelist hiding in the shadow of his only masterpiece. But when a downbeat teenager named Fullerton is admitted, he disrupts their established routines. The boy is plagued by a recurring nightmare that steers him into danger, and Knell is left to pick apart the mystery. What is ’The Ecliptic’ and how does it connect to their abandoned lives in London?

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当他来到Portmantle的时候，他仅仅只有17岁。同样也是一个逃跑的人，就像我们中剩下的人一样。Portmantle，是位于Heybeliada的土耳其岛上的一家封闭的避难所，专门为艺术家准备。在这里，居民被给予全新的名字。在这个与世隔绝的地方，曾盛极一时的画家、作家、音乐家以及建筑师这一奇怪的搭配组合，努力恢复其日渐消退的天赋。埃尔斯佩思•康罗伊是一位已经对自己的艺术创作失去信心的十分著名的壁画画家。在这个避难所，她找到了3个志趣相投的艺术家：麦金妮，一位与自己曾经所创作的剧本纠缠不清的剧作家。佩蒂福，一位为不断修改宏伟的教堂建筑草图而疲惫不堪的建筑师。Quickman，一位只活在自己杰作中的小说家。但是当一位名叫富勒顿的悲观的年轻人被接纳，他打破了他们原先的生活轨迹。男孩时常被同一个噩梦所折磨，这个噩梦将他引向了危险。Knell因此被留下来揭开事件背后的真相。到底什么是黄道，它又是怎样跟这些在伦敦曾被生活抛弃的人联系在一起的呢？（LNL）

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About the Author/作者介绍： 本杰明•伍德于1981出生，在英格兰西北部长大。在2004，他被授予联邦奖学金，去参加在加拿大英属哥伦比亚大学举办的MFA创意写作项目。在那里他同时也是加拿大文学期刊棱镜国际小说编辑。本杰明现在是伦敦大学伯贝克学院创意写作课程的讲师。他是The Bellwether Revivals一书的作者，本书曾入围2012哥斯达黎加第一部小说奖和2013国家图书

Benjamin Wood was born in 1981 and grew up in north-west England. In 2004, he was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend the MFA Creative Writing Programme at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he was also fiction editor of the Canadian literary journal PRISM International. Benjamin is now a lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of The Bellwether Revivals, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa First Novel Award and the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize.

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