Ian McEwan 07年的新书On Chesil Beach，使他再度入围英国布克奖。这本只有二百页的小书，就规模而言，更似novella（中篇小说），McEwan 把语言的细腻玩出了一种喜剧的幽默，别具谐趣。 英国诗人Philip Larkin’s Annus Mirabilis开头第一段这么写道： Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) - Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles’ first LP. On Chesil Beach的故事便是发生在性解禁的前一年1962年的七月，两个二十二岁的年轻人，天资不凡的小提琴手Florence与踌躇满志的历史系学生E...(展开全部)

Ian McEwan 07年的新书On Chesil Beach，使他再度入围英国布克奖。这本只有二百页的小书，就规模而言，更似novella（中篇小说），McEwan 把语言的细腻玩出了一种喜剧的幽默，别具谐趣。 英国诗人Philip Larkin’s Annus Mirabilis开头第一段这么写道： Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) - Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles’ first LP. On Chesil Beach的故事便是发生在性解禁的前一年1962年的七月，两个二十二岁的年轻人，天资不凡的小提琴手Florence与踌躇满志的历史系学生E...(展开全部)

歐大旭 (Tash Aw) 在台北出生，父母是馬來西亞人。他成長於吉隆坡，從小生活在多語言、多族群的環境下，會說中文、廣東話、馬來語和英語。之後遠赴英國修習法律，曾於律師事務所服務，但最終決心專注寫作，並於東安格利亞大學完成文學創作碩士學位。迄今著有四部小說，每部皆佳評如潮，其中《和諧絲莊》（2005）獲惠特貝瑞圖書獎，以及大英國協作家亞太獎，隨後推出《沒有地圖的世界》（2009）、《五星豪門》（2013）、《倖存者，如我們》（2019）。他的著作兩度入選曼布克獎，已印行二十三種語言譯本，為近年在國際上最炙手可熱的馬來西亞華人作家。 譯者簡介 宋瑛堂 台大外文系畢業，台大新聞碩士，著有《譯者即叛徒？》，曾兩度入圍梁實秋翻譯大師獎，曾任China Post記者、副採訪主任、Student Post主編等職。文學譯作包括《內景唐人街》、《幸運之子》、《分...(展开全部)

The story is set primarily in and around Melbourne, Australia, in 1963. World War III has devastated most of the populated world, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout, and killing all human and animal life in the Northern Hemisphere. The war began with a nuclear attack by Albania on Italy, and then escalated with the bombing of the United States and the United Kingdom ...(展开全部)

The story is set primarily in and around Melbourne, Australia, in 1963. World War III has devastated most of the populated world, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout, and killing all human and animal life in the Northern Hemisphere. The war began with a nuclear attack by Albania on Italy, and then escalated with the bombing of the United States and the United Kingdom ...(展开全部)

Following the war, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards poisoning everything in its path. An American submarine captain is among the survivors left sheltering in Australia, preparing with the locals for the inevitable. Despite his memories of his wife, he becomes close to a young woman struggling to accept the harsh realities of their situation. Then a Morse code sign...(展开全部)

The year is 1962. Florence, the daughter of a successful businessman and an aloof Oxford academic, is a talented violinist. She dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, the earnest young history student she met by chance and who unexpectedly wooed her and won her heart. Edward grew up in the country on the outskirts of Oxford ...(展开全部)

In 1962, Florence and Edward celebrate their wedding in a hotel on the Dorset coast. Yet as they dine, the expectation of their marital duties weighs over them. And unbeknownst to both, the decisions they make this night will resonate throughout their lives. With exquisite prose, Ian McEwan creates in On Chesil Beach a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a wor...(展开全部)

歐大旭 (Tash Aw) 在台北出生，父母是馬來西亞人。他成長於吉隆坡，從小生活在多語言、多族群的環境下，會說中文、廣東話、馬來語和英語。之後遠赴英國修習法律，曾於律師事務所服務，但最終決心專注寫作，並於東安格利亞大學完成文學創作碩士學位。迄今著有四部小說，每部皆佳評如潮，其中《和諧絲莊》（2005）獲惠特貝瑞圖書獎，以及大英國協作家亞太獎，隨後推出《沒有地圖的世界》（2009）、《五星豪門》（2013）、《倖存者，如我們》（2019）。他的著作兩度入選曼布克獎，已印行二十三種語言譯本，為近年在國際上最炙手可熱的馬來西亞華人作家。 譯者簡介 宋瑛堂 台大外文系畢業，台大新聞碩士，著有《譯者即叛徒？》，曾兩度入圍梁實秋翻譯大師獎，曾任China Post記者、副採訪主任、Student Post主編等職。文學譯作包括《內景唐人街》、《幸運之子》、《分...(展开全部)

Following on the heels of Martin Parr’s limited-edition, album-style publication Life’s a Beach, Aperture now presents this beach-friendly mini edition. Parr has been photographing the topic of the beach for many decades, documenting sunbathers, rambunctious swimmers caught mid-plunge and the eternal sandy picnic. His international career, in fact, could well be traced to the p...(展开全部)