2013年--波汉市

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2013 – City of Bohane
Author: Kevin Barry
Winner of the 2013 Award
Judges’ Citation
Kevin Barry’s Ireland of 2053 is a place you may not want to be alive in but you’ll certainly relish reading about. This is not a future of shiny technology but one in which history turns in circles and quirks an eyebrow at the idea of ‘progress’.  Barry reminds us that the stories of love and power, colliding in violence, have a dark inevitability – irresistible to every generation of storytellers whose greatest challenge is to make the old stories fresh. In City of Bohane he meets that challenge through his interweaving of the satisfyingly familiar with the dazzlingly inventive.  Logan Hartnett, Jenni Ching, the Gant, Immaculata  and all the extended characters in this layered tale stride or sashay across the pages,  recognisable in their outlines and yet unlike any other set of fictional characters in their past-meets-future vernacular and intriguing wardrobes and particularity.  Likeable characters wouldn’t survive a minute in Bohane, but compelling characters are in no short supply. In addition to the subversion of archetypes and serving up of what-you-want and playfulness and danger and humour the novel is also, in many places, quite wonderfully moving. None of this would be possible if not for the inspired language of the book which is its greatest triumph.

About the Book
Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are the posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin’ that the city really lives.

For years, the city has been in the cool grip of Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But there’s trouble in the air. They say his old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious; and his missus wants him to give it all up and go straight… And then there’s his mother.

City of Bohane is a visionary novel that blends influences from film and the graphic novel, from Trojan beats and calypso rhythms, from Celtic myth and legend, from fado and the sagas, and from all the great inheritance of Irish literature. A work of mesmerising imagination and vaulting linguistic invention, it is a taste of the glorious and new.

(From Publisher)

About the Author
Kevin Barry’s debut story collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, won the Rooney Prize in 2007. His short fiction has appeared widely on both sides of the Atlantic, most recently in The New Yorker. His novel, City of Bohane, was published in 2011.

Librarians Comments
Set in a fictional city in the west of Ireland, sometime in the future, this rollicking story with its cast of bizarre characters, adventurous language and fantastical plot makes a very impressive debut novel.

Wholly original, vivid sense of imagery and language that deserves re-reading.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Author       
Kevin Barry

Country       
IE

Nominating Library       
Cork City Libraries, Ireland

Publisher       
Jonathan Cape, UK

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2013年--波汉市
作者。凯文-巴里
2013年的获奖者
评委的赞誉
凯文-巴里的2053年爱尔兰是一个你可能不想活在其中的地方，但你肯定会津津乐道地阅读。这不是一个闪闪发光的技术的未来，而是一个历史在转圈，对 "进步 "的想法挑眉的未来。 巴里提醒我们，爱情和权力的故事，在暴力中碰撞，有一种黑暗的必然性--对每一代讲故事的人来说都是不可抗拒的，他们最大的挑战是使老故事变得新鲜。在《波汉市》中，他通过将令人满意的熟悉事物与令人眼花缭乱的创新事物交织在一起，迎接这一挑战。 洛根-哈特内特、詹妮-程、甘特、伊玛库拉塔以及这个层次分明的故事中的所有扩展人物都在书页上大步走来或摇摇晃晃，他们的轮廓可辨，但又不同于其他任何虚构的人物，他们的过去与未来的方言和耐人寻味的衣着和特点。 讨人喜欢的人物在《波汉》中一分钟也活不下来，但引人注目的人物却不缺。除了对原型的颠覆和提供你想要的东西、嬉戏、危险和幽默之外，这部小说在许多地方还相当精彩地令人感动。如果不是这本书的灵感语言，这些都是不可能的，这是它最大的胜利。

关于此书
在未来的四十年里。位于爱尔兰西海岸的曾经伟大的城市Bohane正陷入困境，它被罪恶所侵袭，并沿着部落线分裂。城里有豪华的地方，但在贫民窟和Smoketown的后街、Northside Rises的塔楼和Big Nothin'的阴森沼泽中，才是这个城市真正的生命。

多年来，这个城市一直处于洛根-哈特内特的冷酷控制之下，他是哈特内特花式团伙的潇洒教父。但空气中出现了麻烦。他们说他的老克星又回来了；他的亲信越来越有野心；他的夫人希望他放弃这一切，改邪归正......然后还有他的母亲。

博汉城》是一部有远见的小说，它融合了电影和图形小说、特洛伊节拍和卡里普索节奏、凯尔特人的神话和传说、法多和传奇以及爱尔兰文学的所有伟大遗产的影响。这是一部具有令人着迷的想象力和高超的语言发明的作品，是对辉煌和新的品味。

(来自出版社）

关于作者
凯文-巴里的首部故事集《有小王国》于2007年获得鲁尼奖。他的短篇小说在大西洋两岸广泛发表，最近一次是在《纽约客》上。他的小说《波汉城》于2011年出版。

图书管理员评论
这部小说以爱尔兰西部的一个虚构的城市为背景，在未来的某个时间里，这个热闹的故事以其怪异的人物、冒险的语言和幻想的情节成为一部令人印象深刻的处女作。

完全原创，生动的图像和语言感，值得重读。

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其他信息
作者       
凯文-巴里

国家       
IE

提名图书馆       
爱尔兰科克市图书馆

出版商       
英国乔纳森-开普公司

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