羅絲·特裏梅因 （Rose Tremain）

1943年齣生於倫敦。荷蘭葛洛寜恩大學英語語言與文化碩士，現於英國東安格利亞大學教授創意寫作。

少年時期即開始創作，33歲時齣版第一本小說，從此筆耕不輟。作品獲奬眾多，包括惠特布萊德奬年度好書、英國布萊剋小說紀念奬、法國費米娜外國小說奬、狄蘭·托馬斯文學奬、《周日快報》年度選書等。

2008年憑藉《迴傢的路》獲英國橘子奬，奠定瞭她在世界文壇的知名度及影響力。擔任過兩屆布剋奬

評委。

A sweeping saga of love and greed set during the mid-nineteenth century gold rush in New Zealand.

Joseph and Harriet Blackstone, along with Joseph’s mother Lilian, emigrate from England in search of new beginnings and prosperity in New Zealand. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in the creek, he guiltily hides the discovery from his wife and mother, and is seized by a rapturous obsession with the voluptuous riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new gold fields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of the “colour,” are violently rushing to their destinies.

Harriet bravely decides to pursue her own journey towards an uncertain future. But nothing has prepared her for what happens when she too arrives at the gold diggings. Amid squalor and confusion, burning heat and icy flood, Harriet Blackstone comes face to face with the true cost of desire.

Hauntingly evocative and, by turns, both moving and terrifying, The Colour is the story of a quest for the impossible, an attempt to mine the complexities of love and in the process discover what it is that makes men and women happy.