MONKEY BEACH: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 12760006B05249

English Summary/英文概要： “Eden Robinson寫了部偉大的作品。堅韌，溫情，和熱情洋溢的。《猴島》是北美文學界的一部不可多得的瑰寶。”—— SHERMAN ALEXIE
“優美的文字縈繞心頭，這是一部令人難忘的首作。”—— 英國《泰晤士報》
“《猴島》遠不止是一部心理轉型類的作品，雖然從最好的意義上說，這是一部驚悚的，神秘精神世界……的小說。這部小說還描述了青少年彷徨的真實篇章……青春期很少有如此的感知和堅定的目光。你可以說《猴島》是一部風格獨特的作品，因為你會再次去閱讀這篇小說……第一部令人驚奇的完美小說。”—— 《華盛頓郵報》
AN ASTONISHING FIRST NOVEL THAT TAKES US ON A JOURNEY INTO THE SPIRIT WORLD

From Eden Robinson, acclaimed as one of Canada’s most original voices, comes this rich and haunting story of a family on the edge of heartbreak. Set amidst the long, cool shadows of B.C.’s Rocky Mountains, Monkey Beach is a novel with the power to remind us that places, as much as people, have stories to tell.

On the peaceful shore of the Douglas Channel lies the remote Haisla community of Kitamaat, British Columbia. Seventeen-year-old Jimmy Hill, ambitious and handsome, is the pride of the village: an Olympic hopeful. Despite being sought after by the local boy-chasers, serious-minded Jimmy shows little interest in courtship – until he falls in love with Karaoke, tough as nails and the village beauty. But their young romance is cut short by the news of a horrifying accident at sea and Jimmy’s mysterious disappearance.

Circling the disaster are Monkey Beach’s remarkable and endearing characters: Jimmy’s older sister Lisamarie, our wayward narrator; their loving parents, struggling to marry their Haisla heritage with Western ways; Uncle Mick, Native-rights activist and devoted Elvis fan; the thrifty, self-directed Ma-ma-oo (Haisla for "grandmother"), guardian of the old traditions. But Lisamarie has other advisors less tangible or trustworthy: ghosts, sasquatches and animal spirits that weave their way into her life as she struggles with Jimmy’s vanishing.

Spellbinding, funny and vividly poignant, Monkey Beach gives full scope to Robinson’s startling ability to make bedfellows of comedy and thedark underside of life. Informed as much by its lush, living wilderness as by the humanity of its colourful characters, this is a profoundly moving story about childhood and the pain of growing older – a multilayered tale of family grief and redemption.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 第一部驚人的小說，帶領我們走進一個精神世界
都柏林文學獎提名
入圍2000年吉勒文學獎和總督小說獎
B.C.布克文學獎獲得者

Eden Robinson的第一本作品，名為《Traplines》的故事集小說，贏得了（紐約時報書評）“熟練的描繪”，（多倫多環球郵報）“吸引我的眼球並滲透進我的潛意識中”的高度讚譽。這部作品被《紐約時報》列入年度優秀讀物，並獲得了來自英國皇家文學獎的Winifred Holtby紀念獎。
Robinson聞名的《猴島》，是由一位加拿大Haisla原住民作家所著，这部長篇小說故事将設置在在太平洋西北沿岸偏遠地區。這部著名的小說告訴我們只要有人定居的地方，就有故事。
溫哥華以北的五百里的Kitamaat是印第安人的原住地，Haisla人的家鄉和保留地。一個堅強的，野丫頭，游泳，打架，並在綠色海洋世界邊緣處的偏遠村莊捕魚成長，Lisamarie一直都是那麼與眾不同。被鬼魂和變異人紛紛造訪，遭受預感的折磨，她無法躲避那些即將要發生的可怕事情。她敘述著自己迷幻卻又傷痕累累的生活，就像她乘坐快艇在Douglas海峽冰冷的水域中劃行。她正在尋找因溺水而亡的兄弟，用她自己獨特的方式，去面對危險。圍繞她兄弟的不幸死身亡，使她的家族成員顯得更為不容易：Lisamarie的父母，用他們的所學習到的西方生活方式努力融入Haisla傳統文化中；叔叔Mick，一個土生土長的維權活動人士，忠實的貓王粉絲；以及頑固的祖母，Haisla傳統的守衛者。生動而有趣的，《猴島》充分彰顯了Robinson對於詼諧幽默和生活最黑暗一面的描寫張力。通過對各色鮮明人物的曠野生活，盡可能多的描述，《猴島》是關於孩童和成長中的痛苦的一部深刻感人的故事 —— 也是關於家庭悲傷和救贖的深層故事。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Finalist for the 2000 Giller Prize and the 2000 Governor General’s Award for Fiction

Winner of the B.C. Book Prize for Fiction

“Eden Robinson has written a great book. Tough, tender, and fierce. Monkey Beach is a valuable addition to North American literature.” — SHERMAN ALEXIE

“Beautifully written and haunting, this is an impressive debut.” — THE TIMES, UK

“Monkey Beach is far more than a novel of psychological transformation, though it is that. It is, in the best sense, a thriller, a spiritual mystery.... The novel also contains some of the truest passages I have read on what it is like to be a teenager.... Puberty has rarely received such a perceptive and unflinching gaze. You can tell Monkey Beach is an original because you actually want to read it again.... A startlingly accomplished first novel.” — THE WASHINGTON POST

“Although death hangs like a Pacific mist over these pages, Robinson, herself a Haisla, fills this edifying book with the stuff of the living, from the tiniest details of Haisla life to the mightiest universals of tradition, desire and family love.” — THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

BUKOWSKI AGENCY 2017 CANADIAN BESTSELLER LIST: Based on BookNet Canada sales figures

• Eden’s first novel, Monkey Beach, is currently in post-production as a feature film. The aim is to launch it at Toronto International Film Festival in September. All of the book rights sales you see at the attached link have long since reverted, except for Canada.

In Canada, MONKEY BEACH is on the curriculum in schools and universities and has never been out of print. Over 80,000 copies have been sold. The book has just been made into a feature film that opened the Vancouver International Film Festival. For further information, see: http://www.bukowskiagency.com/Robinson/Monkey-Beach.htm.

About the Author/作者介绍： Eden Victoria Lena Robinson(生於1968年1月19日)，加拿大的小說家和短篇小說作家。出生在（加拿大西部）不列顛哥倫比亞省的Kitamaat，她是Haisla & Heiltsuk印第安原住民之一。她在維多利亞大學和英國哥倫比亞大學接受教育。Robinson四部短篇小說合集《Traplines》（1995年），獲得了專為英聯邦作家最佳原作而設的，英國Winifred Holtby獎。這部作品還被《紐約時報》列入年度優秀讀物和編輯選擇獎。《Monkey Beach/猴岛》，是Robinso備受讚譽的第一本小說，獲得了B.C.布克小說獎，2000年入圍吉勒文學獎和總督獎，並曾被提名都柏林文學獎。
Eden Robinson is a thirty-one-year-old Haisla woman who grew up near Kitimat, British Columbia. Her previous collection, TRAPLINES, was awarded the Winifred Holtby Prize for the best first work of fiction by a Commonwealth writer and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Notable Book of the Year.

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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：已售版權: 美國，英國，加拿大，德國，荷蘭，法國，愛沙尼亞 RIGHTS SOLD US: Houghton Mifflin UK: Little, Brown Book Group Canada: Knopf Germany: Rowohlt Verlag Netherlands: Prometheus France: Albin Michel Estonia: Hotger Czech: Havran Film: Eagle Eye Films France (Pocket Book Reprint): J’ai lu US eBook: Open Road

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