天堂之子 23年英国女性小说奖长名单 Children of Paradise 英文原版 Camilla Grudova

基本信息

Format Paperback | 208 pages

Dimensions 135 x 216 x 14mm | 221g

Publication date 07 Jul 2022

Publisher Atlantic Books

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Language English

Edition Statement Export/Airside

ISBN10 1838956328

ISBN13 9781838956325

书籍信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

当霍利申请在 "天堂 "工作时--这是本市较古老的电影院之一，被挤在一栋公寓的底层--她认为这将与其他轮班工作一样。她打扫厕所，清扫爆米花，避开好斗的老老板艾里斯，并被她冷漠但关系紧密的同事们忽视，他们似乎是这栋建筑的一部分，就像它磨损的地毯和无尽的灰尘一样。当她渴望得到他们的认可时，可怕的、孤独的几个星期过去了，她是一个沉默的窥视者。

因此，当她获得这群神秘的怪人的信任时，霍利从沉默的苦力转变为叛逆的内部人员，并逐渐成为天堂的一部分--揭开它的秘密，了解它的历史，并在下班后与其他招待员一起在走廊里徘徊。毫不奇怪，当暴力事件发生时，脾气发生了变化，这群人的眼睛仍然紧紧盯着屏幕，但却开始频繁出错......

'Festers in glorious style' Telegraph

'Magnificently spiky' Guardian

'Utterly enthralling' Times Literary Supplement

When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the ground floor of a block of flats - she thinks it will be like any other shift work. She cleans toilets, sweeps popcorn, avoids the belligerent old owner, Iris, and is ignored by her aloof but tight-knit colleagues who seem as much a part of the building as its fraying carpets and endless dirt. Dreadful, lonely weeks pass while she longs for their approval, a silent voyeur.

So when she finally gains the trust of this cryptic band of oddballs, Holly transforms from silent drudge to rebellious insider and gradually she too becomes part of the Paradise - unearthing its secrets, learning its history and haunting its corridors after hours with the other ushers. It is no surprise when violence strikes, tempers change and the group, eyes still affixed to the screen, starts to rapidly go awry...

作者简介

卡米拉-格鲁多瓦住在爱丁堡，在那里她是一名招待员。她拥有蒙特利尔麦吉尔大学的艺术史和德语学位。她的小说曾出现在《白色评论》和《格兰塔》上。她广受好评的首部作品集《娃娃的字母表》于2017年出版。这是她的首部小说。

Camilla Grudova lives in Edinburgh where she works as an usherette. She holds a degree in Art History and German from McGill University, Montreal. Her fiction has appeared in The White Review and Granta. Her critically acclaimed debut collection, The Doll's Alphabet, was published in 2017. This is her first novel.