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Our Evenings

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內容簡介 「《Our Evenings》是一部真正驚人的小說，時而細膩，時而兇猛，以激進的方式探討種族、階級、性取向和出身等問題，背景設置在英國的優雅鄉郊。這是一個正在經歷巨大變化的國家的故事，即使其人民尚未察覺——小說在時間的流逝中如此優美，以至於在結尾時我感到一種深深的失落感。」——《碼頭上的陌生人》作者歐大旭(Tash Aw)大衛·溫13歲時離家去到當地一所寄宿學校，住在提供他獎學金的贊助人家裡。這個週末的遊戲、挑戰和意外的相遇，為他開啟了讓人興奮的可能性，同時也面對了贊助人之子吉爾斯的嫉妒和暴力。隨後在跨越五十年的時間裡，兩個男孩的職業生涯大相逕庭：大衛是一位在傳統與歧視中掙扎的天才演員，而吉爾斯則成為一位越來越強大且危險的政治家。這是一個關於種族與階級、戲劇與性、愛情與暴力殘酷衝擊的故事。透過一名男子敏銳且令人不安的經歷，布克獎得主霍林赫斯特為讀者呈現了一幅黑暗、燦爛且惡搞幽默的現代英國圖像。Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age.Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles’ envy and violence.As their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys’ careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.Our Evenings is Dave Win’s own account of his life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security.

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各界推薦 Our Evenings is a truly astonishing novel, by turns delicate and ferocious, radical in the way it explores questions of race, class, sexuality and origins in a genteel English Home Counties setting. It is the story of a country undergoing great change, even if its people aren’t aware of it―the novel moves through time so beautifully that I felt such a sense of loss at the end — Tash AwWith his seventh novel, Our Evenings, the Booker-winning writer proves that his talents as a keen noticer of the world have only deepened . . . Gems of observation and insight on every page ― The TelegraphOur Evenings is marked by a sharp eye, a tender sensibility, and an unflagging wit. I never wanted it to end. -- Emma Donoghue

作者介紹

作者介紹 Alan HollinghurstAlan Hollinghurst is the author of seven novels, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty, The Stranger’s Child, The Sparsholt Affair and Our Evenings. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He lives in London.

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