Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham in 1959. A nomadic childhood was spent in towns in Northern England and Scotland. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and has worked in various areas of non-fiction publishing, including Gordon Fraser and Quarto. In 1990, she left London and went to Turin to teach English to stressed-out executives of the Fiat motor company. The following year she taught English in Bilbao.
She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea. There she began working on her first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
From 1993 to 2003, Susanna Clarke was an editor at Simon and Schuster's Cambridge office, where she worked on their cookery list. She has published seven short stories and novellas in US anthologies. One, "The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse," first appeared in a limited-edition, illustrated chapbook from Green Man Press. Another, "Mr Simonelli or The Fairy Widower," was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award in 2001.
She lives in Cambridge with her partner, the novelist and reviewer Colin Greenland.
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England--until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a celebrity overnight.
Soon, another practicing magician comes forth: the young, handsome, and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's student, and they join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic, straining his partnership with Norrell, and putting at risk everything else he holds dear.
literary awards
Hugo Award for Best Novel (2005),
Man Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2004),
Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2006),
Locus Award for Best First Novel (2005),
Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2004)
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2005),
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (2005),
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction (2005),
Cena Akademie SFFH for Kniha roku (Book of the Year) (2007)
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前面很英国,悠闲到慢得有点受不了。但悠闲中埋下的很多伏笔到了第三部渐入高潮,喷薄而出。结尾差点看哭了,突然间迸发出无数阅读回忆与真知灼见。感觉应该有续集一样。很高兴墨迹了很多年终于读了。
评分俺还是不要指望BBC能拍出原作的风骨了【。#audiobook
评分行文克制,传统的简直要叫人相信这些事情都是真的,相当英国的一个魔法世界,古朴又回味悠长。
评分俺还是不要指望BBC能拍出原作的风骨了【。#audiobook
评分#原作比译本赞多了!流畅有节奏,气氛烘托也好。好多细节还是看原文才能注意到,比如heartache那个预言。
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