Madeleine Thien簡單食譜（Simple Recipes）小說集240頁 bb.doc

家西書社 版權代理、西洋古書版畫 jia-xi books co., ltd台北市105民生東路五段153號1F-11Literary Agency, Antique Books & Prints1F-11, No. 153, Ming-Sheng E. Rd., Sec 5 E-Mail: .twTaipei, 105 Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: 00886-2-2765-4488.tw Fax: 00886-2-2760-7227 Madeleine Thien，確然書（Certainty），324頁，McClelland & Stewart，ISBN: 0771085133，4/06。2001年，加拿大首席人文出版社McClelland & Stewart出版了華裔作家新秀瑪德蓮沈的小說集簡單食譜，立即使她在文壇大放異彩，一舉摘下溫哥華市書卷獎（City of Vancouver Book Award）、伊索威爾森小說獎（Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize）、亞裔作家協會的傑出新人獎、加拿大作家協會獎和國協作家獎，並入圍布蘭雯華勒斯小說獎（Browen Wallace Fiction Award）、西部雜誌獎（Western Magazine Award）、加拿大廣播電台文學獎。感情遊戲作者艾莉絲孟若對簡單食譜的明晰和從容，以及情感上的純淨大為驚嘆。當時，瑪德蓮年僅二十七歲。這位1974年出生於溫哥華的年輕作家，雙親是馬來西亞華僑移民，很早便開始創作，受麥可翁達傑和馬奎斯等作家影響。她曾習舞七年，但後來轉向寫作。簡單食譜成名後，瑪德蓮沉潛五年，交出備受各界期待的首部長篇小說力作。確然書寫的是戰火流離下的驚惶與失落，家族記憶的糾纏不散。林家的葛兒是現代溫哥華的廣播節目製作人，對她來說，二戰期間父母的亞洲流亡經驗，始終是個未解之謎。當年日軍佔領馬來西亞小島，葛兒的父親馬修和青梅竹馬的安妮家破人亡，輾轉逃入叢林裡，最終被迫分開。多年以後他們重逢，但再度被命運拆散。馬修和安妮的共同記憶和秘密，無可避免地成為他與妻子愛麗絲之間的阻隔。葛兒的尋根之旅帶她來到阿姆斯特丹，遇見戰地記者史派克。他說出自己在雅加達的往事，以及戰後和安妮的關係。葛兒父母的謎樣過去，終於漸漸還原真貌確然書McClelland & Stewart出版社在2004法蘭克福書展上的主打作品，預計2006年在加拿大出版，2007年由Little, Brown在美國出版。M&S出版社的資深版權總監瑪瑞琳畢德曼（Marilyn Biderman）表示這是她生涯詢問度最高、最受期待的一部作品，全球各地的出版社每隔幾個月便打電話詢問小說進度。該社發行人暨小說總編輯艾倫薩里格曼（Ellen Seligman）則稱讚瑪德蓮沈毫無障礙地從短篇小說轉換到長篇，並且處處流露出難以置信的成熟風範，她處理複雜情節、創造鮮明角色的能力令人驚嘆。（本社備有電子檔和書評）。HTML版：/grayhawk/archives/1125921.htmlPraise for Madeleine ThiensSIMPLE RECIPESMcClelland & Stewart, 2001l “This is surely the debut of a splendid writer. I am astonished by the clarity and ease of the writing, and a kind of emotional purity.” Alice Munrol “Thiens stories are universes on their own, rich and multi-facetedShe has an uncanny ability to confound expectations at every turnA tour de force of storytelling,” Vancouver Sunl “Madeleine Thien writes with a diamond on glass. Her stories are windows between worlds: childhood and adulthood, east and west, love and lossA poised, glittering debut.” Annabel Lyon, author of Oxygenl “Thien shows a rare, measured and perceptive understanding.” National Postl “A deft and mesmerizing feat.” Toronto Starl “She packs her deceptively straightforward short stories with raw emotional power.” Timel “A graceful debut collectionThe simplicity of Thiens narration belies the complexity of her themes. She is a writer to watch.” Publishers Weeklyl “Dazzling.” Voguel “SIMPLE RECIPES exhibits a very Munro-like combination of delicacy and gravity.In graceful counterbalance to the restraint of her prose, Thiens portraits of these painful, guilt-ridden, love-drenched relationships are remarkably rich.” Baltimore Sunl “SIMPLE RECIPES offers wise and tender tales about families that are both united and strained beyond their limits by cultural and generational differencesThien weaves dark magic.” Ellel “Stunning in its authority, in its orchestration of the silences and omissions that are the true language of our world, Madeleine Thiens collection of stories accomplishes what all fine writing strives to accomplish but rarely does: It reveals us to ourselves with such sudden and irresistible precision, such appalling tenderness, that we are, however briefly, transformed by the experience, forced to recognize ourselves in a new light. Hers is a powerful new voice in fiction.” Mark Slouka, author of GODS FOOL and LOST LAKEl “Madeleine Thiens sure-footed stories have a quiet elegance to them, but their emotional centres are packed tight. Her prose is as clear as consomm and her characters emerge out of it raw and human. Its a wonderful debut.” Michael Redhill, author of MARTIN SLOANEl “These are stories deep with longing, a genuine consolation of the private griefs of human beings who find themselves, quite by accident, joined in families. Thien has a real talent for moulding the immense chaotic universe of emotions into something perfectly rounded, a small, startling jewel you can hold in the centre of you