内容简介
From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.
In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance—to his family’s modest home outside London for the weekend. George is enthralled by Cecil, and soon his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by him and the stories he tells about Corley Court, the country estate he is heir to. But what Cecil writes in Daphne’s autograph album will change their and their families’ lives forever: a poem that, after Cecil is killed in the Great War and his reputation burnished, will become a touchstone for a generation, a work recited by every schoolchild in England. Over time, a tragic love story is spun, even as other secrets lie buried—until, decades later, an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them.
Rich with Hollinghurst’s signature gifts—haunting sensuality, delicious wit and exquisite lyricism— The Stranger’s Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, how the heart creates its own history, and how legends are made.
作者简介
艾伦·霍林赫斯特，生于1954年，英国当代著名作家、诗人、翻译家，毕业于英国牛津大学，曾任《泰晤士报文学副刊》副主编。代表作包括《泳池图书馆》《折叠的星星》《美丽曲线》等。获得过布克奖、毛姆小说奖、詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克纪念奖、比尔·怀特海德终身成就奖等文学奖项。
The Stranger's Child是2011年由Knopf出版,作者AlanHollinghurst。
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