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內容簡介 英國史上最腥風血雨的年代一段伴君如伴虎的宮闈大戲2009年曼布克獎作品 Man Booker Prize是英國最具影響力的文學獎之一，甫於日前宣布的年度得主，則由Hilary Mantel的《Wolf Hall》獲得，作者Hilary Mantel以五年的時間完成了這本以英國國王亨利八世為背景的歷史小說，主角則以當時的首席國務大臣Thomas Cromwell的視角，為讀者描述當時亨利八世統治下的都鐸王朝下的種種。Thomas Cromwell出生卑微，在努力下他逐漸的在政壇中找到位置，雖然最後因叛亂罪處死，不過在他的努力下，英國進行了政治的全面改革，此時的政治制度為後來的英國機構奠定了基礎。這本厚達六百多頁的《Wolf Hall》，從Thomas Cromwell開始，帶領讀者前往十六世紀的英國王朝，聆聽Hilary Mantel為我們訴說這一段政治帷幕下的精彩故事。

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各界推薦 Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009 "Mixing fiction with fact, Mantel captures the atmosphere of the times and brings to life the important players."—Publishers Weekly "The story of Cromwell's rise shimmers in Ms. Mantel's spry intelligent prose . . . [Mantel] leaches out the bones of the story as it is traditionally known, and presents to us a phantasmagoric extravaganza of the characters' plans and ploys, toils and tactics."—Washington Times "Arch, elegant, richly detailed . . . [Wolf Hall's] main characters are scorchingly well rendered. And their sharp-clawed machinations are presented with nonstop verve in a book that can compress a wealth of incisiveness into a very few well-chosen words . . . Deft and diabolical as they are, Ms. Mantel's slyly malicious turns of phrase . . . succinctly capture the important struggles that have set her characters talking."—Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Mantel's abilities to channel the life and lexicon of the past are nothing short of astonishing. She burrows down through the historical record to uncover the tiniest, most telling details, evoking the minutiae of history as vividly as its grand sweep. The dialogue is so convincing that she seems to have been, in another life, a stenographer taking notes in the taverns and palaces of England."—Ross King, Los Angeles Times"A novel both fresh and finely wrought: a brilliant portrait of a society in the throes of disorienting change, anchored by a penetrating character study of Henry's formidable advisor, Thomas Cromwell. It's no wonder that her masterful book just won this year's Booker Prize . . . [Mantel's prose is] extraordinarily flexible, subtle, and shrewd."—Wendy Smith, The Washington Post "Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall is a startling achievement, a brilliant historical novel focused on the rise to power of a figure exceedingly unlikely, on the face of things, to arouse any sympathy at all . . . . This is a novel too in which nothing is wasted, and nothing completely disappears."—Stephen Greenblatt, The New York Review of Books "Whether we accept Ms Mantel's reading of history or not, her characters have a lifeblood of their own . . . . a Shakespearean vigour. Stylistically, her fly-on-the-wall approach is achieved through the present tense, of which she is a master. Her prose is muscular, avoiding cod Tudor dialogue and going for direct modern English. The result is Ms Mantel's best novel yet."—The Economist

作者介紹

作者介紹 Hilary Mantel1952年生於德比郡，曾於倫敦政經學院、雪菲德大學攻讀法學。1987年，曼特爾以一篇描撰寫吉達（紅海沿岸城市）的文章榮獲「奈波爾紀念獎」。兩年後，更以英國北方磨坊小鎮為故事背景的小說《佛洛德》（Fludd）贏得溫尼弗雷德‧霍爾比紀念獎、「契爾特納姆」文學藝術獎和英國南部文學獎。之後陸續出版多部得獎作品，包括榮獲《周日快報》年度小說獎、重現法國大革命恢宏場面的小說《更安全之地》（A Place of Greater Safety）、榮獲英國CBE文學獎的《超越黑暗》（Beyond Black），以及榮獲霍桑登獎的《愛的考驗》（An Experiment in Love）以及個人回憶錄《棄鬼》（Giving Up the Ghost）。2009年出版的最新力作《狼廳》（Wolf Hall），榮獲曼布克文學獎以及全年美國書評人大獎，可謂生涯顛峰代表作。曼布克文學獎評審委員會主席諾帝（James Naughtie）評曰：「本書優秀得令人不可思議。作者用當代小說的方式講述了一個十六世紀的歷史故事，篇幅宏大，敘事細膩，語言瀟灑馳騁，場景設計巧妙，每一頁都熠熠生輝。」目前與夫婿定居於英國倫敦。

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