THE TAX EXILE

Book ID/图书代码： 00530014B76015

English Summary/英文概要： From a position of acute poverty – no job and the rent owed – Fred Carton is suddenly plunged into a situation where a year’s stay in Monte Carlo will save him a Capital Gains tax bill of £600,000.

But he has managed to find the money for only one previous trip abroad, he doesn’t speak French and the girl he has his eye on is busily at work in England.

So is his friend Dermot Ryan, who has a junk stall and a stormy marriage to attend to. The idea that his poorest friend is considering become a tax exile fills him with horror. ‘I always thought that exile was one of the saddest words in the language,’ he says.

‘Not half as sad as tax,’ says Fred.’But put the two together and what have you got? A happy man quaffing champagne under a sunshade while topless ladies frolic in the pool beside him. At least, I hope that’s what you’ve got.’

What happens surprises them both, as Dermot Ryan’s marriage, collapsing under flying kitchenware, spills over on to the Cote d’Azur, and Fred finds that saving £600,000 from the greedy hands of the government can produce feelings of guilt as well as triumph.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 弗雷德·卡顿是个穷光蛋，没工作，还欠着一大笔房租，但是他突然萌生一个想法，逃到蒙特卡洛住一年，为自己省下60万英镑的税收。

但是费雷德只出过一次国，不会说法语，他心爱的女孩还在英国忙于工作。

他的朋友德莫特·瑞安也好不到哪去，他有个小摊位，和新婚的妻子还在磨合期。弗雷德要出国逃税的想法吓了他一跳。他对弗雷德说“我觉得逃亡是最悲哀的词语了。”“不不，税收才是。”弗雷德答道。“但把这两个词放在一起你会得到什么呢？在遮阳伞下痛饮着香槟，比基尼女郎在泳池里嬉戏？我祝福你能获得这些吧。”

但最后发生的事情他们两人都没有料到，瑞安的婚姻在飞舞的刀叉间结束了，而弗雷德发现随着60英镑的税收而来的除了胜利的喜悦还有浓浓的负罪感。（XAT）

Awards/获奖情况：“这是本非常有趣的书。”——《星期天邮报》

"A very funny book." Sunday Times

About the Author/作者介绍： 盖伊·拜拉米出生在布里斯托尔，但大部分时间居住在萨里。结束了在德国兵役后，盖伊成为了一名记者，在在康沃尔郡，伯恩茅斯，布莱顿等地工作。盖伊已婚，并育有一女，现居于汉普郡。“像盖伊一样不受束缚，自由创作的漫画小说家可不多见。”——《星期天邮报》“这位畅销作者的作品是我节假日的必读书籍。”——《独立报》“很有趣，也很尖锐。”——《星期日晚报》“英国最有趣的作家”——《伯明翰周日报》 Guy Bellamy was born in Bristol but has lived mostly in Surrey. After National Service in Germany with the RAF, he went into journalism and has worked on newspapers in Cornwall, Bournemouth, Brighton and Fleet Street including the Daily Express and Sun. He is married with a daughter and now lives in Hampshire. "Comic novelists as riotous and eccentric as Guy Bellamy don’t grow on trees.” Mail on Sunday "The best-selling novelist whose books are compulsory holiday reading." Independent "Funny, caustic and gloriously readable." Evening Standard "The funniest writer in Britain." Birmingham Sunday Mercury

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