书名：Come Tell Me How You Live情牵叙利亚/说吧叙利亚 

作者：Agatha Christie 

出版社名称：HarperCollins 

出版时间：2015 

语种：英文 

ISBN：9780007487240 

商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm 

包装：平装 

页数：304当年阿婆风华正茂，踏上叙利亚新婚之旅；这是阿加莎·克里斯蒂的一部游记，献给一生挚爱。 “历经四年战乱，我对叙利亚的念想越来越强烈。我爱那片平静肥沃的土地，上帝保佑，让我再回到那片土地，保佑我爱的这一切不会从世间消失……”——阿加莎·克里斯蒂 如今战火纷飞的叙利亚，曾经是一片宁静的乡野，那里盛开着金盏菊，白胡子老者跋涉在驴子后，浑然不知远方的战争。那里的人民纯朴、悠闲、快活，知道如何大笑和享受生活。 如果说阿加莎克里斯蒂在侦探小说中略去了人物刻画，在这本书Come, Tell Me How You Live《说吧，叙利亚/情牵叙利亚》里，她寥寥几笔便将一个个体描绘得栩栩如生。这是一部充满温情、谐趣的“爱的劳作”，此行挖掘的真正宝藏是她笔下的酋长、厨子、司机、工匠、农夫、护身符雕刻师、屠夫、烤饼师傅、烛台匠人…… Agatha Christie’s personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. Think you know Agatha Christie? Think again! To the world she was Agatha Christie, legendary author of bestselling whodunits. But in the 1930s she wore a different hat, travelling with her husband, renowned archaeologist Max Mallowan, as he investigated the buried ruins and ancient wonders of Syria and Iraq. When friends asked what this strange ‘other life’ was like, she decided to answer their questions by writing down her adventures in this eye-opening book. Described by the author as a ‘meandering chronicle of life on an archaeological dig’, Come, Tell Me How You Live is Agatha Christie's very personal memoir of her time spent in this breathtaking corner of the globe, living among the working men in tents in the desert where recorded human history began. Acclaimed as ‘a pure pleasure to read’, it is an altogether remarkable and increasingly poignant narrative, a fascinating, vibrant and vivid portrait of everyday life in a world now long since vanished. Review ‘Perfectly delightful… colourful, lively and occasionally touching and thought-provoking’ --Charles Osborne, Books & Bookmen ‘Good and enjoyable… she has a delightfully light touch’--Marghanita Laski, Country Life ‘Agatha Christie has provided entertainment, suspense, and temporary relief from the anxieties and traumas of life both in peace and war for millions throughout the world.’--P. D. James ‘Christie’s witty account of her yearly expeditions in Syria in the 1930s … is at once a captivating depiction of quotidian life at archaeological digs and a romantic portrait of adventurers and scholars in the interwar Middle East. Her relaxed narrative of the organization and effort in archaeological investigation and of the landscape and people in the region is engrossing―but what makes this book bewitching is the nostalgic glamour that infuses it.” --The Atlantic (US)1930年，命运安排年轻的考古学家马克斯·马洛万和当时已负盛名的阿加莎·克里斯蒂相识，但阿加莎的名气并未阻碍她分担丈夫的工作。她参与了马克斯在叙利亚和伊拉克的每一场发掘，与他同甘共苦，在考古学家遭遇的各种灾难事件中不断筛取笑料。她爱她的丈夫，对考古有着浓厚的兴趣，当朋友问起她的异乡生活时，她决定用这部轻松的游记来告诉他们答案。本书描绘了考古旅途中的艰辛和乐趣，从中能体会阿加莎独具的魅力，同时也能找到《古墓之谜》和《死亡约会》的影子。 阿加莎·克里斯蒂原名为阿加莎·玛丽·克拉丽莎·米勒，1890年9月15日生于英国德文郡托基的阿什菲尔德宅邸。她几乎没有接受过正规的教育，但酷爱阅读，尤其痴迷于歇洛克·福尔摩斯的故事。 一战期间，阿加莎·克里斯蒂成了一名志愿者。战争结束后，她创作了自己的第1部侦探小说《斯泰尔斯庄园奇案》。几经周折，作品于1920年正式出版，由此开启了克里斯蒂辉煌的创作生涯。1926年，《罗杰疑案》由哈珀柯林斯出版公司出版。这部作品一举奠定了阿加莎·克里斯蒂在侦探文学领域不可撼动的地位。阿加莎·克里斯蒂的创作生涯持续了50余年，总共创作了80部侦探小说。她的作品畅销全世界100多个国家和地区，累计销量已经突破20亿册。阿加莎·克里斯蒂是柯南·道尔之后伟大的侦探小说作家，是侦探文学黄金时代的开创者和集大成者。1971年，英国女王授予克里斯蒂爵士称号，以表彰其不朽的贡献。 1976年1月12日，阿加莎·克里斯蒂逝世于英国牛津郡沃灵福德家中，被安葬于牛津郡的圣玛丽教堂墓园，享年85岁。 Agatha Christiewas born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott. In a few weeks’ time we are starring for Syria! Shopping for a hot climate in autumn or winter presents certain difficulties. One’s last year’s summer clothes, which one has optimistically hoped will ‘do’, do not ‘do’ now the time has come. For one thing they appear to be (like the depressing annotations in furniture removers’ lists) ‘Bruised, Scratched and Marked’. (And also Shrunk, Faded and Peculiar!) For another—alas, alas that one has to say it!—they are too tight everywhere. So—to the shops and the stores, and: ‘Of course, Modom, we are not being asked for that kind of thing just now! We have some very charming little suits here—O.S. in the darker colours.’ Oh, loathsome O.S.! how humiliating to be O.S.! How even more humiliating to be recognized at once as O.S.! (Although there are better days when, wrapped in a lean long black coat with a large fur collar, a saleswoman says cheeringly:‘But surely Modom is only a Full Woman?’) I look at the little suits, with their dabs of unexpected fur and their pleated skirts. I explain sadly that what I want is a washing silk or cotton. ‘Modom might try Our Cruising Department.’ Modom tries Our Cruising Department—but without any exaggerated hopes. Cruising is still enveloped in the realms of romantic fancy. It has a touch of Arcady about it. It is girls who go cruising—girls who are slim and young and wear uncrushable linen trousers, immensely wide round the feet and skintight round the hips. It is girls who sport delightfully in Play Suits. It is girls for whom Shorts of eighteen different varieties are kept! The lovely creature in charge of Our Cruising Department is barely sympathetic.