納丁·戈迪默,南非國寶級作傢,齣身於一個特權白人中産階級傢庭。從小愛讀書,九歲開始寫作,十五歲開始發錶第一篇小說。戈迪默在政治上強烈反對種族隔離,寫有十四部長篇小說和十一部短篇小說集,作品多以描寫種族隔離對南非人生活的毀滅性影響為主題,寫作手法有節製而不帶感情色彩。一九七四年她因小說《自然資源論者》獲布剋奬,一九九一年因其作品“史詩般的宏偉”而獲得諾貝爾文學奬。納丁·戈迪默被譽為當代世界十大小說傢之一。
Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and, after surgery, prescribed treatment that will leave him radioactive, for a period a danger to others, he begins to question, as Auden wrote, "what Authority gives / existence its surprise."
In the garden of his childhood home, where his businessman father, Adrian, and prominent civil rights lawyer mother, Lyndsay, take him in to protect his wife and child from radiation, he enters an unthinkable existence and another kind of illumination: the contradiction between the values of his work and those of his wife, Benni, an ad agency executive. His mother is transformed by the strange state of her son's existence to face her own past. Meanwhile, projects to build a nuclear reactor and drain vital wetlands preoccupy Paul as if he were at work. By the time he is cured, both families have been changed. On his return to his home and career, his parents go to Mexico to fulfill the archaeological vocation Adrian sacrificed to support his family. The consequence of this trip is the final surprise in this extraordinary exploration of passionate individual existences.
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