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作者:Brooks,Geraldine
出版时间:2006-1
书籍简介:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Richard and Judy pick. From the author of the acclaimed 'Year of Wonders' and 'People of the Book', a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American Civil War. Set during the American Civil War, 'March' tells the story of John March, known to us as the father away from his family of girls in 'Little Women', Louisa May Alcott's classic American novel. In Brooks's telling, March emerges as an abolitionist and idealistic chaplain on the front lines of a war that tests his faith in himself and in the Union cause when he learns that his side, too, is capable of barbarism and racism. As he recovers from a near-fatal illness in a Washington hospital, he must reassemble the shards of his shattered mind and body, and find a way to reconnect with a wife and daughters who have no idea of the ordeals he has been through. As Alcott drew on her real-life sisters in shaping the characters of her little women, so Brooks turned to the journals and letters of Bronson Alcott, Louisa May's father, an idealistic educator, animal rights exponent and abolitionist who was a friend and confidante of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. The story spans the vibrant intellectual world of Concord and the sensuous antebellum South, through to the first year of the Civil War as the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats. Like her bestselling 'Year of Wonders', 'March' follows an unconventional love story. It explores the passions between a man and a woman, the tenderness of parent and child, and the life-changing power of an ardently held belief.
作者简介:
杰拉尔丁·布鲁克斯（Geraldine Brooks,1955-）生于悉尼，是拥有澳大利亚和美国双重国籍的女作家，她曾先后在《悉尼先驱晨报》和《华尔街日报》担任资深记者，长期对国际热点问题进行采访和报道，她把这一职业称为自己“创作的图书馆”。
除了《马奇》这部获普利策奖的小说，布鲁克斯根据真实历史事件创作的处女作《奇迹之年》2001年在美国出版后同样好评如潮，随即成为澳大利亚政府推荐全民阅读的年度佳作。布鲁克斯现与丈夫及儿子居住在美国弗吉尼亚州乡村。
