Wish You Were Here

　　布克獎得主葛蘭.史威夫特繼《天堂酒吧》(Last Orders)後的動人新作

　　2006年的秋日，傑克收到在伊拉克從軍的弟弟湯姆的死訊。這個突如其來的消息，不僅在傑克與妻子艾莉的平靜生活中投下一枚震撼彈，也意味著傑克接下來必須正視自己最私密、最不想面對的家族回憶……。

　　英國新生代小說家史威夫特細心鋪排情節，讓《Wish You Were Here》內容扣人心弦，直擊人性的核心。書裡並穿插有伊拉克戰爭、狂牛症與槍械暴力等真實社會情事，大大縮短了小說與實際生活間的距離，讓讀者更能感同身受，與傑克、艾莉共同度過生命裡這段充滿戲劇性的轉折。

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作者簡介

葛蘭.史威夫特 (Graham Swift)

　　英國當代知名作家。1949年生於倫敦，畢業於劍橋大學。1983年，他已與英國現今重量作家如馬丁．艾米斯、魯西迪、威廉．波伊德、伊恩．麥克伊旺等人並列為葛蘭塔雜誌「英國新生代小說家」之列。

　　作品產量雖然不多，但每部作品問世都受到高度關注。他的作品至今已擁有三十幾種語言版本，有兩部已被改編搬上大銀幕，包括以英國的家庭和人文景貌為主題，成為英國高中、大學必讀的經典文學作品及指定教材的《水之鄉》(Waterland)，以及《天堂酒吧》(Last Orders)。1996年榮獲英國文壇最高榮譽的「布克獎」，將他推至文壇至高地位。

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　　From the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders comes an incredibly moving and accomplished new novel. A Vintage Canada trade paperback original.

　　On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey--to receive his brother’s remains, but also into his own most secret, troubling memories and into the land of his and Ellie’s past. Wish You Were Here is both a gripping account of things that touch and test our human core and a resonant novel about a changing England. Rich with a sense of the intimate and the local, it is also, inescapably, about a wider, afflicted world. Moving towards an almost unbearably tense climax, it allows us to feel the stuff of headlines--the return of a dead soldier from a foreign war--as heart-wrenching personal truth.

　　GRAHAM SWIFT is the author of eight acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories; his most recent work is Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels have since been made into films. Graham Swift’s work has appeared in over thirty languages. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.