《黑水灯塔船》作品简介
《大师》《布鲁克林》作者
科尔姆·托宾早期代表作、布克奖入围作品
怀揣不同信仰和感情的三代人
在历史的浅滩里审视过去
二十世纪九十年代初的爱尔兰，由于同性恋弟弟德克兰身染绝症，海伦不得不跟疏远已久的母亲莉莉重新在外婆多拉位于海边的老宅聚首，共同照顾病入膏肓的德克兰。与她们同住的还有德克兰的朋友保罗和拉里。
海伦与莉莉隔阂已久，而莉莉也与多拉矛盾重重。在面对德克兰病情的过程中，怀揣不同信仰和感情的三代人，被迫在这片历史的浅滩里审视自己的过去，在互相碰撞与冲突中倾听彼此的内心，通过对过去的回溯逐渐达成了谅解。
托宾用舒缓、优美的文字探索爱的本质和一个矛盾重重的家庭内部复杂的情感，让人产生深深的共鸣：要如何面对家人，治愈内心深处的创伤？
科尔姆·托宾，爱尔兰当代著名作家。他1955年生于爱尔兰韦克斯福德郡恩尼斯科西镇。毕业于都柏林大学。自1990年发表第一部小说《南方》以来，托宾已出版九部长篇小说，两部短篇小说集，多部戏剧、游记、散文集。《黑水灯塔船》（1999）、《大师》（2004）、《玛利亚的自白》（2012）都入围布克奖决选名单，《大师》荣获2006年度都柏林国际文学奖等文学奖。《布鲁克林》获2009年度英国科斯塔最佳小说奖。他最新一部长篇小说是2021年9月出版的《魔术师》。2011年，英国《观察家报》将其选入“英国最重要的三百位知识分子”，同年，他获得爱尔兰笔会文学奖，以表彰他对爱尔兰文学做出的贡献。2014年，他当选美国艺术与文学院外籍荣誉院士。
目前，托宾担任哥伦比亚大学英文与比较文学系IreneandSidneyB.Silverman人文讲席教授，自2017年起也担任利物浦大学校监。他在纽约和都柏林两地居住。
"Blackwater Lighthouse Ship" introduction
"The Master," "Brooklyn.
Colm Tobin's early masterpiece, shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Three generations with different beliefs and feelings
Examine the past in the shallows of history
In Ireland in the early 1990s, due to the terminal illness of her gay brother Declan, Helen has to reunite with her estranged mother Lily at her grandmother DORA's old house by the sea to take care of the terminally ill Declan. Staying with them were Declan's friends Paul and Larry.
Helen and Lily have been estranged for a long time, and Lily has problems with DORA. In the process of facing Declan's illness, the three generations with different beliefs and feelings are forced to examine their past in this historical shoal, listen to each other's hearts in the collision and conflict, and gradually reach an understanding through the retrospection of the past.
Tobin uses soothing, beautiful prose to explore the nature of love and the complex emotions of a conflicted family in a deeply resonant way: How do you face your family and heal your deepest wounds?
Colm Tobin is a famous contemporary Irish writer. He was born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland, in 1955. He graduated from University College Dublin. Since the publication of his first novel, The South, in 1990, Tobin has published nine novels, two collections of short stories, and several plays, travelogues, and essays. Blackwater Lighthouse Ship (1999), The Master (2004), Confessions of Maria (2012) were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and The Master won the Dublin International Prize for Literature in 2006. Brooklyn won the 2009 Costa Award for Best British novel. His latest novel is The Magician, published in September 2021. In 2011, the Observer named him one of Britain's Three Hundred Most important intellectuals, and in the same year he was awarded the Irish PEN Prize for Literature in recognition of his contribution to Irish literature. In 2014, he was elected an honorary Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Currently, tobin as IreneandSidneyB English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Silverman humanities professor professors, also served as Liverpool university since 2017. He splits his time between New York and Dublin.
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