TALLULAH PARK
Book ID/图书代码： 03035014B75616
English Summary/英文概要： Did you know the heart is the only organ not completely in thrall to the brain? Specialised pacemaker cells at
the entrance to the right atrium are myogenic, meaning that they will contract without an outside influence
such as the electrical impulse coming from the central nervous system. Your heart does, in fact, beat before it
is first fed by this impulse, while you are still just a seed inside your original home – in utero.
In other words, if you cut your heart out, it could – in theory – continue beating.
At twenty-one, Tallulah Park lives alone in a grimy North London bedsit. There’s a sink in her
bedroom, a shower in her kitchen, and a strange damp smell that sometimes means she wakes up
wheezing. Ignoring old dreams of becoming a nurse, Tallie survives on minimum wage, waitressing at
the local greasy spoon.
And then she gets the call. “I’m afraid your father has had a heart attack.”
Tallie hasn’t seen him in five years, and Aunt Vivienne, Aunt Gillian – won’t they be at the hospital
too? Tallie doesn’t want to see any of them.
"Sometimes people are damaged. And sometimes, if you’re damaged, you can’t see past it." That’s what
Tallie’s beautiful mother told her one golden autumn day, but it wasn’t meant as a warning: the two
of them had all the time in the world, and nothing could possibly damage them.
When Tallie’s mother died, her taciturn father became even colder, packing her off to boarding
school within weeks. Her world was thrown into chaos, and when it came to letting Tallie down, her
father hadn’t even started.
When Tallie wasn’t running away, she was being tossed around her difficult extended family; a world
of sniping aunts, precocious cousins, emigrant pianists and lots of gin, all presided over by an
unconventional grandmother, all making excuses for her absent father. And no one felt like
answering Tallie’s questions: why did Aunt Vivienne loathe Tallie’s mother? Who was Uncle Jack and
why would no one talk about him?
As Tallie grows up, she learns the hard way about damage and betrayal – and that in the end the
worst betrayals are those we inflict on ourselves. This is her story about the journey from love to
loss and back again.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 你知道心脏是唯一的不完全受制于大脑的器官吗? 右心房入口的专业起搏细胞是肌原性的, 意味着他们可以不受外部影响的收缩，比如不受像中枢神经系统电脉冲之类的影响。事实上,你的心脏在这个脉冲第一次发生前就开始跳动了,而那时你还仅仅只是一个种子居住在你最原始的家里——在子宫内。
换言之,如果你将心脏拿出，理论上讲它依然会继续跳动。《塔卢拉公园》的主人公21岁，独自一人居住在伦敦北部一间肮脏的客卧两用房屋里。洗涤槽就在她的卧室里, 淋浴房和厨房并用,房间里奇怪的潮湿气味,有时一醒来就让人感到气喘。Tallie曾经也有梦想能成为一名护士，而这个梦想早已无暇顾及。她在一个廉价小饭馆做服务员，靠非常微薄的收入生活。然而一天她接到了电话：“恐怕你的父亲患了心脏病。
Tallie已经五年没有见过他父亲和Vivienne姑妈，Tallie姑妈了——她们也会在医院吗？她可不想见到她们中的任何一位。Tallie美丽的母亲在金秋的一天曾跟她说过：“有时候别人受到伤害。有时,如果是你受到伤害时,你看不到过去。” 但这并不意味着是一个警告: 她们两个有世界上所有的时机, 可能没有什么会伤害他们。
Tallie的母亲死后,她的沉默寡言的父亲变得更冷漠了,把她打发到了寄宿学校，一去就是几周。她的世界陷入混乱,让Tallie失望的是, 她父亲这些行为甚至还没有始。
Tallie没有逃脱, 她被扔在了长期难以相处的家庭,这里有卑鄙的姑姑,早熟的表亲,移民钢琴家和大量的杜松子酒, 这个家由一个非传统的祖母主持，所有的人都为她父亲的失职找借口。没有人会喜欢回答Tallie的问题: 为什么Vivienne 姑妈讨厌Tallie的妈妈? 谁是杰克叔叔,为什么没有人谈论他?
随着Tallie的长大, 她明白了伤害和背叛是无情的, -- 最终最严重的背叛就是我们对我们自己的。这是她的故事，一个从爱到迷失到又找回自我的旅程。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“悲伤朴素的散文, Kat以一个破裂而神秘的家庭为中心展现了一个孩子孤独的内心。它剖析了如何爱，探究了如何去宽恕。欺骗会令人不安，单纯的品质闪闪发光。” Liza Klaussmann(红色的天气下的老虎)
“仅仅是看完了小说就感觉: 它太大了,很感人! 一部强迫性的家庭戏剧。《塔卢拉公园》揭露了保守秘密的毁灭性后果。KatGordon巧妙地讲述Tallulah的过去,构建了一个戏剧性让人津津乐读的结局。是一部优秀的读本。“艾玛•查普曼(如何成为一个好妻子)
"With heartbreakingly understated prose, Kat Gordon lays out the terrible
loneliness of a child at the center of an exploded, secretive family. It is an
autopsy of how we love and an exploration of forgiveness, both disturbing and
shimmering in deceptive simplicity."
Liza Klaussmann (Tigers in Red Weather)
“Just finished the novel: it’s so great, feel quite emotional!
A compulsive family drama, Tallulah Park explores the devastating effects of
keeping secrets. Kat Gordon deftly tells the story of Tallulah’s past, building to
a dramatic, unputdownable conclusion in her present. An excellent read.”
Emma Chapman (How To Be a Good Wife)
About the Author/作者介绍： Kat Gordon 1984年出生于伦敦。她进入了卡姆登女子学校, 后在牛津大学萨默维尔学院学习英语,曾获得皇家霍洛威学院给予的创意写作大师的荣誉。在期间,Kat做过体操教练,戏院带位员,钢琴伴奏者,保姆,研究员，并为Time out工作。她花了大量的时间旅游,主要是在非洲。凯特和她和男朋友带着他们那只可怕的猫Maggie一起住在伦敦。《塔卢拉公园》是她的第一部小说,一个关于家庭秘密的故事。
Kat Gordon was born in London in 1984. She
attended Camden School for Girls, read English
at Somerville College, Oxford, and received a
distinction in her creative writing masters from
Royal Holloway. In between, Kat has been a
gymnastics coach, a theatre usher, a piano
accompanist, a nanny, a researcher and worked
at Time Out. She has spent a lot of time
travelling, primarily in Africa.
Kat lives in London with her boyfriend and their terrifying cat, Maggie. Tallulah Park is her
first novel, a story of family secrets.
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