Winter’s Tale

　　本書已改編為電影【冬季奇蹟】，由柯林法洛、潔西卡布朗芬德利、羅素克洛、威爾史密斯、珍妮佛康納莉領銜主演。

　　某個冬夜，被生活逼得鋌而走險的彼得．雷克企圖搶劫一座在上城西部的森嚴大宅，卻遇見了屋主女兒—貝佛莉．潘，她對生命的幽默與熱愛，讓彼得找到活著的意義，一段愛爾蘭裔盜賊與身染罕病的女孩的愛情故事於焉展開。

　　New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake--orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side.

　　Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter Lake, a middle-aged Irish burglar, and Beverly Penn, a young girl, who is dying.

　　Peter Lake, a simple, uneducated man, because of a love that, at first he does not fully understand, is driven to stop time and bring back the dead. His great struggle, in a city ever alight with its own energy and beseiged by unprecedented winters, is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.

　　★本書中譯版《冬季奇蹟》由凱特文化出版。

作者簡介

馬可．赫爾普林 Mark Helprin

　　曾就讀哈佛大學，普林斯頓大學，與牛津大學，也曾於以色列陸軍和空軍，與英國商船隊服役。
　　作品有《提煉者之火》《伊利斯島與其他故事集》《東方之鴿》《大戰中的孤兵》《防蟻箱中的回憶錄》與《佛萊迪與弗德瑞卡》。　　
　　MARK HELPRIN is the acclaimed author of Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, Freddy and Fredericka, The Pacific, Ellis Island, Memoir from Antproof Case, and numerous other works. His novels are read around the world, translated into over twenty languages.