标题: 1999 - 巧妙的疼痛 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-9-30 23:40 标题: 1999 - 巧妙的疼痛 1999 – Ingenious Pain
Author: Andrew Miller
Winner of the 1999 Award
1999 Shortlist 1999 Longlist
From the Judges’ Citation
… Ingenious Pain creates a fully imagined narrative world teeming with characters who dramatise the sensuality of the age … Ingenious Pain is a persuasive literary achievement.
Judges: Andre Brink, Bodil Malmsten, Alberto Manguel, Julia O’Faolain, Tom Shapcott. Non-voting Chair, Allen Weinstein
About the Book
Ingenious Pain tells of the rise, fall and redemption of an extraordinary man, whose lack of compassion is physical: he is unable to feel pain. Born in the West Country, in the mid-eighteenth century, at the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer grows up to become a brilliant surgeon. The novels takes us from England, through Europe, across to Russia, as Dyer travels to St. Petersburg: en route, he meets a witch-like woman, who proves both his nemesis and saviour. At one level an exciting adventure story, Ingenious Pain is also a novel of ideas, packed with detail, with a wonderful sense of period.
About the Author
Andrew Miller was born in Bristol, England, in 1960. He currently lives in Paris.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Author
Andrew Miller
Country
GB
Nominating Library
State Library of South Australia
Publisher
Sceptre, UK
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