普通人类缺陷Ordinary Human Failings : A NovelMegan Nolan

基本信息

Book Details

ISBN-13: 9780316567794

ISBN-10: 0316567795

Author: Megan Nolan

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Imprint: Back Bay Books

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 224

Release Date: 1 January 1970

Weight: 209g

Dimensions: 179mm x 136mm x 17mm

基本信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

平凡人性的弱点：一部关于秘密与怀疑的小说

当一个十岁女孩被怀疑犯下暴力罪行时，她的家人必须面对他们过去的真相。这部引人入胜、扣人心弦、心理刻画细腻的小说，讲述了阶级、创伤和家庭秘密的故事。

故事发生在1990年的伦敦，汤姆·哈格里夫斯拥有一切：蒸蒸日上的记者生涯、强烈的野心，以及对“平民百姓”——他的读者，小报的素材——的漠视。当他偶然发现一个耸人听闻的新闻时，他的事业似乎即将腾飞：伦敦一处住宅区里一个孩子死去，悲痛欲绝的父母深受邻里爱戴，而嫌疑的矛头却指向一个隐居的爱尔兰移民家庭——格林一家，他们被认为是“害群之马”。

故事的核心人物是卡梅尔：美丽、超凡脱俗、破碎不堪，她原本拥有超越自身境遇的未来，直到生活——以及爱情——阻碍了她的前行。失败的打击让她喘不过气，失望的阴影笼罩着她，她无处可去，也无路可逃。如今，警方正在逼近嫌疑人，小报也在追查这个“怪物”，她必须面对那些困住她家族几代人的秘密和沉默。

Ordinary Human Failings: A Novel of Secrets and Suspicion

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about their past in this haunting, propulsive, psychologically keen story about class, trauma, and family secrets.

It’s 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the “peasants” – ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and “bad apples” the Greens.

At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, otherworldly, broken, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances until life - and love - got in her way. Crushed by failure and surrounded by disappointment, there’s nowhere for her to go and no chance of escape. Now, with the police closing in on a suspect and the tabloids hunting their monster, she must confront the secrets and silences that have trapped her family for so many generations.

作者简介

梅根·诺兰是一位居住在纽约的爱尔兰作家。她的处女作《绝望之举》（Acts of Desperation）荣登国际畅销书榜，荣获贝蒂·特拉斯克奖，并入围迪伦·托马斯奖和《星期日泰晤士报》年度青年作家奖。她的第二部小说《平凡的人性弱点》（Ordinary Human Failings）曾入围乔治·奥威尔政治小说奖、尼禄奖和女性文学奖等多项奖项。她是2025年塞瓦尼文学院约翰·格拉默奖学金获得者。

Megan Nolan is an Irish writer based in New York. Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was an international bestseller, the recipient of a Betty Trask Award, and nominated for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Her second, Ordinary Human Failings, was nominated for the George Orwell prize for Political Fiction, the Nero Prize, and the Women’s Prize, among others. She is the 2025 Sewanee School of Letters John Grammer Fellow.