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"Leaf Skirt" Author: [Australia] Patrick White Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
"Leaf Skirt" Author: [Australia] Patrick White Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
▲A woman's thrilling story of survival as a captive, a desperate test of love, humanity, and ethics
▲Challenging the boundaries between barbarism and civilization, reaching the myths and dilemmas in the hearts of modern people
▲Representative works of Patrick White, Australia's first Nobel Prize winner in Literature
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Contents:
"Leaf Skirt" is a novel of independence and adventure written from a female perspective by Australian writer Patrick White, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature.
In the early 1840s, the young British noblewoman Ellen accompanied her husband Austin to visit her husband's brother Garnett in Van Diemen's Land in colonial Australia. Garnett, who was strong and wild, made Ellen's heart flutter. Responsibility and guilt drove her to escape from this unexpected joy, and she decided to board the ship "Bristol Maid" with her husband to return to England.
A sudden shipwreck exiled everyone to a deserted island in Australia. There, they were attacked by the local savage natives, and only Ellen survived and became a slave of the tribe. She experienced climbing trees to catch mice, fighting with dogs for food, and even eating human flesh, resisting everything she had been loyal to - her deceased husband, her guilty rescuer, and the class that accepted her. However, when the dawn of returning to the civilized world came, she didn't know if she was ready...
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Hot media reviews:
“To read Patrick White… is to touch the roots of power, to travel through a whole new world, to re-examine men and women with a sharp eye.”
——The Daily Telegraph
"A complete success...one of his finest novels."
—The Times
"In his major postwar novels one can feel the pain and sincerity of a personal quest for 'meaning and plot' more intensely than in any contemporary Western prose."
—The Sunday Times
“The Leaf Skirt is more than a simple exile story. The author weaves this story with considerations of many different types of relationships and diverse visions of freedom.”
—The New York Times
Celebrity recommendation:
The bizarre experiences of the protagonist in the novel are the unique charm of Australia itself. With a strong dramatic plot, it presents the colorful, magical and colorful Australia. The interweaving of modernism and realism, and the refinement of language make this novel a masterpiece.
——Qiu Huadong (famous writer)
In the broad narrative of the picture, Pat uses highly condensed language, refines words and sentences, and even the details are no exception. At the same time, with extreme artistic exaggeration and subtle psychological description, he consistently pursues the strongest artistic expression, making truth and beauty closely connected and integrated into one: beauty is the poetic beauty that radiates brilliance and life, and inspires all things in the world and various phenomena; truth, even if it may be disgusting and terrifying at a glance, is its own revelation and liberation.
——Zhu Jiongqiang (famous translator)
I was attracted to the novel, perhaps more as a means of introducing a character like myself, made up of contradictory personalities, to an audience that was reluctant to believe it easily.
--Patrick White, The Flaw in the Mirror
About the Author
Patrick White (1912-1990)
Patrick White
Australian novelist and playwright, one of the most important English-language writers of the 20th century, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 "for his narrative art, which by its blend of epic style and psychological description introduced a new continent onto the literary map".
White was born in London, England, and returned to Sydney, Australia with his parents when he was less than one year old. He suffered from asthma since childhood and lived alone. White spent his childhood on a farm in Australia. In 1932, he entered King's College, Cambridge University to study French and German literature. During his studies, he published his first collection of poems, The Peasant and Other Poems.
White was a prolific writer throughout his life, publishing 12 novels including The Man-Tree (1955), Explorer Voss (1957), The Charioteers (1961), Eye of the Storm (1973), and Skirt of Leaves (1976), as well as three collections of short stories, eight plays, poems, autobiographies, and unpublished works. White's works are delicate and poetic, and he is good at switching freely between stream of consciousness and narrative, with a very high artistic level. White refused numerous literary awards throughout his life and rarely accepted media interviews. He died of illness in his Sydney apartment in 1990.
About the Translator
Ni Weihong, a PhD in English Language and Literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University, is a translator and former director of the International Organizations Division of the International Cooperation Department of the National Audit Office. She has been engaged in international exchanges and cooperation as well as international project management for many years and is proficient in simultaneous interpretation, consecutive interpretation and various types of translation. She has published many translated works, including: "Leaf Skirt" (co-translated with Li Yao), "History of Australia (1788-1942)" (co-edited with Shen Jiangfan and others), "Australian Children's Novels" (edited), etc.
Li Yao (1946- ) is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a senior translator, an honorary doctor of literature from the University of Sydney, an honorary doctor of literature from the University of Western Sydney, and a visiting professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He has translated and published 53 monographs on British, American, and Australian literature and history. Among them, his novels The Prodigal Son, The Red Line, and The Gulf of Carpentaria won the Australia-China Council Translation Award. In 2008, he was awarded the "Outstanding Contribution Medal" by the Australian government. In 2018, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Studies Foundation in China.
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