WAYFARING STRANGER
Book ID/图书代码： 10820014B76854
English Summary/英文概要： James Lee Burke’s new novel begins in West Texas in 1934, and the story begins with a fateful encounter between the narrator, Weldon Avery Holland, and the notorious Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker - a meeting which ends with the sixteen-year-old Holland putting a bullet through the windscreen of Clyde’s stolen automobile.
Weldon’s education in the evils that men - and women - are capable of continues as we move to the Ardennes Forest and the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, where Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland saves his sergeant, Hershel Pine, from death by suffocation when he is buried alive in his foxhole under the treads of a Waffen SS Tiger tank. Weldon and Hershel survive the executions of the wounded by the SS and escape on a freight train deep into Nazi Germany. There, they stumble into an extermination camp deserted by the SS, and discover among the stacked bodies a young woman named Rosita Lowenstein - the second woman to change Weldon’s life.
Weldon goes all the way to the Elbe River in the war’s brutal climax, but afterwards he is determined to find Rosita - eventually tracking her down in Paris, where they get married. But Hershel has also found gold in the dross of conflict, claiming to have discovered the secret to the Tiger tank’s indestructibility, its unique welding process - and on their return to the States, it looks as if the two friends have not merely survived; they’re going to be rich.
But as the two form a pipeline corporation and enter the oil business, they are about to encounter - amidst the super-rich of Huston - levels of greed and cruelty they thought they had left far behind in the blood and horror of war.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： James Lee Burke的新小说始于西德克萨斯州1934年，故事由一个致命的邂逅发生在叙述者，Weldon Avery Holland和 臭名昭著的Clyde Barrow与Bonnie Parker ——一场会议结束于16岁的Holland把一颗子弹穿过Clyde偷来的汽车的挡风玻璃。
Weldon对于邪恶的教育中，男人和女人是能够将邪恶延续下去的正如我们移步至Ardennes森林和1944的Bulge大战中，在那儿少尉Weldon Holland拯救了他的中士，Hershel Pine，从窒息的死亡中当他被活埋在纳粹党卫队的虎式坦克的履带散兵坑之中。Weldon 和Hershel 在纳粹党卫队的伤员搜查中被排除并逃上一辆深入纳粹德国的货运火车。在那里，他们混入了一个被纳粹党卫军冷落的集中营，并在堆积的尸体中发现一名年轻女性叫Rosita Lowenstein-————第二个改变Weldon生活的女人。
Weldon一路沿着 Elbe河去了战争的残酷顶峰，但在那之后他决心找到 Rosita——最终追踪她到巴黎，在那他们结的婚。但是Hershel在冲突的渣宰中发现了黄金，声称一经发现虎式坦克不灭的秘密，以其独特的焊接工艺——并在他们回到了美国，看来这两个朋友不仅幸存了；并且他们将会变得富有。
但是当这两人成立了一个管道公司和进入石油行业的时候，他们将要面临——在超级富裕的休斯顿等级中的贪婪和这些他们曾以为将战争的恐怖和血肉深深遗忘在身后的残酷。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：The Spitzer Agency’s own and much-renowned James Lee Burke had a delightful mention by Stephen King in the New York Times this month:
NYT: “What do you plan to read next?
SK: “Wayfaring Stranger,” by James Lee Burke. He’s a gorgeous prose stylist. Nearly in his 80s now, I think, and as good as he ever was. Such a thing gives hope to those of us who are getting on in years.”
See the full article here: Stephen King’s Next Read: Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke.
About the Author/作者介绍： James Lee Burke是以前塑造了侦探Dave Robicheaux的许多小说的作者。他由于Cimarron Rose在1998获得了 Edgar奖，然而Black Cherry Blues在1990获得了 Edgar奖和日落有限公司被授予CWA Gold Dagger 在1998.他和他的妻子Pearl一起生活，在 Missoula, Montana 和 New Iberia, Louisiana。
James Lee Burke is the author of many previous novels, many featuring Detective Dave Robicheaux. He won the Edgar Award in 1998 for Cimarron Rose, while Black Cherry Blues won the Edgar in 1990 and Sunset Limited was awarded the CWA Gold Dagger in 1998. He lives with his wife, Pearl, in Missoula, Montana and New Iberia, Louisiana.
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