THE BEASTINGS
Book ID/图书代码： 05380014B76537
English Summary/英文概要： One morning at the beginning of the 20th Century a young mute girl takes the baby of the family she works for and walks out across the fells.
An orphan who spent her childhood raised by the Church at St. Mary’s, Belle wants to give the child a better life than the one she herself has known.
Navigating her way through the hills and forests, skirting the edges of towns, Belle relies on nature and the false kindness of strangers to nurse the baby as she pushes herself onward certain that they’ll be pursued.
On her heels comes the local poacher who knows the fells better than anyone, and The Priest of the parish with his own reasons for making sure she is found. Set against the brutal beauty of Cumbria, The Beastings is chase scene as literary fiction, which builds to a dark and shocking climax.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 20世纪初的一天早上，一个年轻的哑女孩带着本该由她照看的婴儿向着荒野出走了。Belle是个孤儿，她在圣玛丽教堂度过了自己的儿童时代，她想要给这个孩子比现在更好的生活。
Bella一路依赖着自然的力量和伪善的陌生人抚养着婴儿，翻山越岭，避开城镇，因为她很确定有人会来追她。
追着她来的有熟悉荒原的偷猎者，有教区的牧师，他有自己的理想想让Bella走不了。本书设定的背景是荒凉而美丽的坎布里亚郡，作为一本文学小说，其中的追逐场景引领读者走向一个黑暗而令人震惊的高潮。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：经过二十多年以后，那些曾经被撒切尔政府唾弃的社会阶层经历了挖矿工人大罢工和Beanfield斗争，Myers正是抓住了这些灾难性的分裂溅出的火星。他的文字充满诗意，更洋溢着已经可悲地被失去了的人性光辉。《卫报》
有了这本最新的、也是第一次尝试的完全虚构的小说，Myers可能终于达成了他该有的成绩。《约克郡邮报》
Praise for Benjamin Myers’ Pig Iron:
"Over two decades after those sections of society most reviled by the Thatcher government fought the Miner’s Strike and the Battle of the Beanfield, Myers crafts the legacy of those catastrophic schisms. His poetic vernacular brims with that quality most sadly lost humanity.” – Guardian
"With his latest, first entirely fictional, novel, Myers may have finally arrived." – Yorkshire Post
"Pig Iron sucks you in, takes a grotesque twist, and plunges you headlong into a horrifyingly savage showdown." – Bizarre
"Compulsive and engaging... Myers’ deft characterisation remains consistently non-judgmental in this beautifully bittersweet tale of love and redemption in contemporary Britain." – Hull Daily Mail
"Pig Iron is that rare book: compelling, beautifully written, full of warmth and vitality, with a lingering tang of urgent pertinence." – Michael Stewart, author of King Crow
"An ardent belief in the healing power of nature is a recurring and prevalent theme in the book - made all the more powerful by Myers’ often poetic writing style." – Durham Times
About the Author/作者介绍： Benjamin Myers1976年出生于达勒姆，他过去出版的几部小说、纪实文学以及诗集都曾获奖。他的作品曾出现在许多出版物上，包括《Melody Maker》，《NME》等等。他的前一部小说《Pig Iron》（2012年由Bluemoouse Books出版）获得了第一届Gordon Burn奖。他目前住在约克郡。
Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. He is the prize-winning author of several works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. His writing has appeared in a number of publications including Melody Maker, NME, Mojo and the Guardian. His previous novel, Pig Iron (Bluemoouse Books, 2012) won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize. He currently lives in rural Yorkshire.
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