《savage lands》是2011年12月Houghton Mifflin出版的圖書，作者是Clare Clark。
基本介紹
- 中文名：savage lands
- 作者：Clare Clark
- 出版社：Houghton Mifflin
- ISBN：9780547386430
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
It is 1704 and, while the Sun King Louis XIV rules France fromthe splendour of Versailles, Louisiana, the new and vast colonynamed in his honour, is home to fewer than two hundred souls. Whena demand is sent requesting wives be dispatched for the strugglingsettlers, Elisabeth is among the twenty-three girls who set sailfrom France to be married to men of whom they know absolutelynothing. Educated and skeptical, Elisabeth has little hope forhappiness in her new life. It is to her astonishment that she,alone among the brides, finds herself passionately in love with hernew husband, Jean-Claude, a charismatic and ruthlessly ambitioussoldier. Auguste, a poor cabin boy from Rochefort, must also adjustto a startlingly unexpected future. Abandoned in a remote nativevillage, he is charged by the colony's governor with mastering thetribe's strange language while reporting back on their activities.It is there that he is befriended by Elisabeth's husband as hebegins the slow process of assimilation back into life among theFrench. The love Elisabeth and Auguste share for Jean-Claudechanges both of their lives irrevocably. When in time he betraysthem both, they find themselves bound together in ways they neveranticipated. With the same compelling prose and vividly realizedcharacters that won her widespread acclaim for THE GREAT STINK andTHE NATURE OF MONSTERS, Clare Clark takes us deep into the heart ofcolonial French Louisiana.
作者簡介
Clare Clark is the author of two highly acclaimed historical novels: The Great Stink (longlisted for the Orange Prize) and The Nature of Monsters. Born in 1967, she graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with a double first in History, and now lives in London with her husband and two children.
