琳达·格兰特：森林的故事 女性小说奖得主新作 The Story of the Forest

基本信息

Format:Hardback 288 pages

Publisher:Zando

Imprint:Zando

ISBN:9781638931683

Published:12 Nov 2024

Dimensions:14.99 x 3.05 x 23.11 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

秋季颇受期待的历史小说

获奖作家琳达·格兰特 (Linda Grant) 撰写的一部“史诗般、极具娱乐性”的家庭传奇故事，讲述了从一战到现在欧洲犹太人的经历，“即使回望往事，也不断向前发展”（《金融时报》）。

1913 年，米娜，一位犹太商人年轻无忧无虑的女儿，在波罗的海边缘的森林里漫步寻找蘑菇。结果，她遇到了一群不守规矩、魅力十足的布尔什维克——这次冒险将成为后代家庭传说的素材。为了拯救她免受进一步的腐败，并永远改变了他们家庭生活的轨迹，米娜和她的大哥乔塞尔登上了一艘前往英国的船。

在那里，另一场战争的威胁迫在眉睫。一大战爆发后，乔塞尔被派往前线，他给一名严重受伤的士兵讲故事，帮助他活到第二天早上，故事中包括如果他活下来，他的妹妹米娜会嫁给他。这名士兵活了下来，并向米娜求婚，他们的婚姻使两个不断发展的贸易王朝联合起来。但随着时间的推移，米娜和乔塞尔了解到，并不是他们家里的每个人都在战争和屠杀中幸存下来，即使他们和他们的后代在不断变化的歧视中努力在利物浦建立新的生活。

《森林的故事》以作者自己的家族历史和传说为基础，是一部非凡的家族传说记录；这是对故事力量的沉思，尤其是在面对生活中不可避免的损失时，英国大师级小说家琳达·格兰特以敏锐的智慧和敏锐的眼光讲述了家庭的魅力和弱点。

A Paste Most Anticipated Historical Fiction for Fall

An “epic and marvelously entertaining” family saga by award-winning author Linda Grant about the European experience from WWI to the present day, that “constantly moves forward even as it looks sorrowfully back” (Financial Times).

It’s 1913 when Mina, the young and carefree daughter of amerchant, roams into a forest on the edge of the Baltic Sea looking for mushrooms. Instead, she encounters a gang of unruly, charismatic Bolsheviks—an adventure that will become the stuff of familial lore for generations to come. Intending to save her from further corruption, and in an act that forever changes the trajectory of their family’s life, Mina and her eldest brother, Jossel, board a ship to England.

There the threat of a different war looms large. When WWI hits, Jossel is sent to the front, where he keeps a severely wounded soldier in his unit alive ‘til morning by telling him tales—including that his sister Mina will marry him if he survives. The soldier lives and asks for Mina’s hand, their marriage uniting two growing trade dynasties. But over time Mina and Jossel will learn that not everyone in their family has survived the wars and pogroms, even as they and their offspring struggle to build new lives in Liverpool in the midst of ever-shifting discriminations.

Based on the author’s own family history and legends, The Story of the Forest is a remarkable record of family lore; a meditation on the power of stories to ground us, particularly in the face of life’s inevitable losses, told with a keen wit and a sharp eye to the charms and the foibles of family by masterful British novelist Linda Grant.

作者简介

琳达·格兰特是一位成就卓著的英国小说家，其作品曾获女性小说奖并入围布克奖，她因描写犹太人的经历而闻名。她现居伦敦。

Linda Grant is an accomplished British novelist, whose books have won the Women’s Prize and been shortlisted for the Booker, and is known for writing about theexperience. She lives in London.