WHITE LIGHTNING

Book ID/图书代码： 10703004R00018

English Summary/英文概要： “Clever, funny sad, deep with luminous surfaces, elegantly contoured and so well wrought there’s no sign of the author’s fiddling with his protagonist’s thought processes, this is a superb novel, that’s built to last.” Lisa Gee, Daily Telegraph “White Lightning is a rare and precious book,” Observer “Justin Cartwright’s hauntingly brilliant new novel ... is beautifully realised in prose that is cool and elegant, sardonic and knowing ... A profound meditation on race, politics, ageing and death – not least the death of the illusions we harbour about ourselves. It is the best novel I have read this year.” Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph “Brilliant, dazzling, unsettling; subtle and haunting; complex and multi-layered; deeply moving … Cartwright manages to combine the thrilling readability of genre fiction with the unpredictability and strangeness of a literary master. It’s astonishing that he still isn’t spoken of in the same breath as Amis and McEwan: he ought to be.” Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday “Justin Cartwright looks to be one of the finest novelists currently at work, and White Lightning an altogether stunning achievement.” D. J. Taylor, Guardian “A work of literary art, a mellow, beautifully constructed fable about the human hunger for goodness, it is by far the best thing Cartwright has done.” David Robson, Sunday Telegraph “Justin Cartwright is one of our best novelists, but he still feels like buried treasure. In White Lightning a man returns to South Africa to sit with his dying mother and looks back over his life. The high aspiration, the low comedy – a career in soft porn (failed) – the wretchedness and one silvery moment of triumph. It’s really about absolution, and that’s how the reader feels at the end: purged, elated, marvelling” Allison Pearson, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year “Apart from being a profoundly serious writer, Cartwright can also be an abrasively amusing one. Scarcely a page of this book fails to yield some pleasure. White Lightning is a book of substantial merit.” Francis King, Literary Review “Cartwright is a beautifully evocative writer; also one who makes you think. Though there is a pervasive sadness to this novel, it is often harshly and sharply funny ... The rhythm is perfect, and almost every page offers such delights.” Alan Massie, Scotsman “This questioning, elegiac novel is much more than another portrayal of mid-life crisis. It deserves a place beside those accounts of Africa, from Conrad to Naipaul, which encapsulate an outsider’s sense of this world as both alluring and forbidding, and always only half-understood.” Times Literary Supplement

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 小说以主人公在南非山脚下行走遇到一所农屋开始。他出生在南非，这次是因为母亲病危而回来。在接下来的几个月里，他将遭遇一生中的好几件大事：他继承了一小笔钱，买下了一个破旧农场，他想把它改造成一个休闲田园，一只佛佛加入到他的生活中来，他爱上了当地的一个女人，他卷入了一个非洲家庭的事情，与此同时，他一直在设想自己回到英国后的生活，想弄明白“英国式”的含义。

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About the Author/作者介绍： Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and educated in the US and at Oxford University. His novels include Look at It This Way, Interior, Masai Dreaming, In Every Face I Meet, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Leading the Cheers, which won the Whitbread Novel Award, Half in Love and the acclaimed White Lightning (which brought his fifth short-listing for Whitbread Novel Award in 2002). He has won other awards including a Commonweath Writer’s prize and the South African M-Net award. Justin Cartwright出生在南非，在美国和牛津大学受的教育。他写过好几部小说，也得过Whitbread小说奖。

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