书名：Tinkers修补匠

作者：Paul Harding

出版社名称：Windmill Books

出版时间：2011

语种：英语

ISBN：9780099538042

商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.4 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装

页数：192（以实物为准）

修补匠乔治临终时，他恍惚的神志摆脱了羁绊，开始在时光和记忆中游弋。他跨越漫漫人生的荒原，重返童年时代，并走进了几十年前突然出走的父亲的生命。

小说以诗意的语言状写微妙的生命经验和大自然在人心中的投影，它消融了读者和作者心灵间的隔阂，就像破开一坛陈酒的泥封，扑面而来的是新鲜醇美的自然、时间、记忆和灵魂的气息

《修补匠》是一曲生命的赞歌，书中的来自新英格兰的父子历经痛苦和喜悦，终于得以突破生活的束缚，并向我们展现了新的感知世界和死亡的方式。——普利策小说奖授奖辞

它精细的触角掠过朴素人生粗质而丰富的内涵，让人一次次因深深的认同而颤栗，就像人生初遇这个绚丽的、难以捉摸的世界时的那种感觉。——玛丽莲·鲁滨逊，普利策小说奖得主

An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris: newspaper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets, rusty tools, and the mangled brass works of antique clocks. Soon, the clouds from the sky above plummet down on top of him, followed by the stars, till the black night covers him like a shroud. He is hallucinating, in death throes from cancer and kidney failure.

A methodical repairer of clocks, he is now finally released from the usual constraints of time and memory to rejoin his father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler, whom he had lost seven decades before. In his return to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in the backwoods of Maine, he recovers a natural world that is at once indifferent to man and inseparable from him, menacing and awe inspiring.

Heartbreaking and life affirming, TINKERS is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.

保罗·哈丁，美国作家、音乐家。他少年时代经常“在丛林中游荡”，对大自然有着深切的爱和体悟。后参与创建“Cold Water Flat”乐队，担任鼓手，曾在美国和欧洲巡回演出。他从小酷爱阅读。当读到卡洛斯·富恩特斯的《我们的土地》时，他突然感到“这才是我要做的事”，从此萌发文学创作之念。他的首部小说《修补匠》原本默默无闻，却凭借其厚积薄发的文学内涵获得2010年普利策小说奖。