The House I Loved

一個失去房子的女人，一件無可原諒的祕密！
一個被改造的城市回憶，一樁塵封30年的真相！

　　這個隱藏了三十年的祕密，和我們的房子有關，原本是我這輩子堅決不說的。

　　然而現在，這房子就要消失了！我所有最燦爛美麗、最痛苦難堪的一切，也將隨之而去。

　　親愛的，時間快到了，我必須向你訴說，不止我們的美好過去，還有我從未向你吐實的那件事──是那隻手！它始終緊緊掐住我們綿密的愛，包覆在我們最瑰麗的青春裡，深深刺痛了我。

　　此刻，我將以淚水做我的筆，以記憶的鮮血成為紙墨，寫給你……

　　From the New York Times bestselling author of Sarah’s Key and A Secret Kept comes an absorbing new novel about one woman’s resistance during an epoque that shook Paris to its very core.
 
　　Paris, France: 1860’s. Hundreds of houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently alter the face of old Paris, moulding it into a “modern city.” The reforms will erase generations of history — but in the midst of the tumult, one woman will take a stand.

　　Rose Bazelet is determined to fight against the destruction of her family home until the very end; as others flee, she stakes her claim in the basement of the old house on rue Childebert, ignoring the sounds of change that come closer and closer each day. Attempting to overcome the loneliness of her daily life, she begins to write letters to Armand, her beloved late husband. And as she delves into the ritual of remembering, Rose is forced to come to terms with a secret that has been buried deep in her heart for thirty years. Tatiana de Rosnay's The House I Loved is both a poignant story of one woman’s indelible strength, and an ode to Paris, where houses harbor the joys and sorrows of their inhabitants, and secrets endure in the very walls...

　　★本書中譯版《玫瑰之屋》由出版。

作者簡介

塔提娜．德羅尼（Tatiana de Rosnay）

　　1961年出生於巴黎，擁有法國、英國、俄羅斯的血統。七○年代，她跟隨前往麻省理工學院任教的父親，移居美國波士頓。大學畢業後，她在1984年重返巴黎，從事《浮華新世界》雜誌的編輯工作。

　　1992年出版第一部小說後，塔提娜．德羅尼在法國共出版十逾本作品。《莎拉的鑰匙》是她首次用母語英文創作的小說。從2007年在英語書市出版至今，不僅攻佔各國暢銷書榜，全球銷量突破五百萬冊：光是美國地區，銷量已高達一百多萬冊；而在歐洲，其聲勢更勝過《刺蝟的優雅》及《暮光之城》系列，甚至讓塔提娜超越眾多法國名家，在2010年奪下全歐洲暢銷女作家之冠。同一年，她並與《達文西密碼》作者丹．布朗、《龍紋身的女孩》作者史迪格．拉森並列歐洲三大暢銷小說家。

　　塔提娜．德羅尼的成功絕非偶然。她的小說語言親近讀者，情節的掌控力和渲染力極強，在她細膩的筆法下，讀者總能從其小說裡獲得極大的閱讀樂趣。她亦善於從歷史事件擷取素材，繼《莎拉的鑰匙》之後，《玫瑰之屋》即是她再次以巴黎真實事件為背景的小說，也是塔提娜．德羅尼近作中，最受期待與矚目的作品之一。

　　TATIANA DE ROSNAY is the author of ten novels, including the New York Times bestselling novel Sarah’s Key, an international sensation with over 5 million copies sold in 38 countries worldwide that has now been made into a major film to be released in Summer 2011. Together with Dan Brown and Stieg Larsson, she was named one of the top three fiction writers in Europe in 2010. Tatiana lives with her husband and two children in Paris.