这是希拉里·曼特尔(Hilary Mantel)关于托马斯·克伦威尔(Thomas Cromwell)和亨利八世(Henry VIII)的宏大三部曲中的第一部。为了庆祝三部曲的完成,《16世纪20年代的英国镜报与光明》(The Mirror & The Light England)荣登纽约时报畅销书榜,这本精彩的新书可谓是灾难的重头戏。如果国王死后没有男性继承人,国家可能会被内战摧毁。亨利八世想废除二十年的婚姻,娶安妮·博林为妻。教皇和大多数欧洲人都反对他。托马斯·克伦威尔(Thomas Cromwell)走进了这一僵局:他是一个完全有原创性的人,一个魅力十足的人,也是一个恃强凌弱的人,既是理想主义者,也是机会主义者,他洞察人心的敏锐,他的野心毫不妥协。但亨利是反复无常的:时而温柔,时而凶残。克伦威尔的地位无人能及博林家族,霍华德家族,新旧家族,都无法理解国王为何如此信任并依赖一个没有爵位且有着不为人知的过去的人,即使在克伦威尔的导师沃尔西枢机主教失宠之后。克伦威尔实现了国王的愿望,但他胜利的代价是什么?在《狼厅》中,曼特尔展现了一个鲜为人知却被广泛神话化的人的迷人心灵,他对英国的创造带来了新的、耀眼的影响。
The first novel in Hilary Mantel's magnificent trilogy about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII, in a gorgeous new edition to celebrate the trilogy's completion with the #1 New York Times-bestselling The Mirror & the Light England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell rises to heights no one could have imagined. The Boleyns, the Howards, the old families and the new, cannot fathom why the king so trusts and relies on a man of no title and an obscured past, even after Cromwell's mentor Cardinal Wolsey falls from favor. Cromwell manages to deliver the king's wishes, but what will be the price of his triumph? In Wolf Hall, Mantel inhabits the fascinating mind of a man little understood and widely mythologized, bringing his influence on the making of Britain into new, dazzling light.
作者简介
Hilary Mantel因其最畅销的小说《狼厅》(Wolf Hall)及其续集《尸体》(Bring Up the Bodies)两次获得曼布克奖。狼厅》已被翻译成36种语言,《尸骨无存》被翻译成31种语言,这两本书在全球的销量已超过500万册。除《狼厅》三部曲外,她还著有《更安全的地方》、《放弃幽灵》、《刺杀撒切尔夫人》、《超越黑色》、《每天都是母亲节》、《空置的占有》、《加扎街弗劳德的八个月》、《气候的改变》、《爱的实验》、《巨人》、《奥布莱恩》和《学会说话》。
Hilary Mantel is the two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize for her best-selling novels, Wolf Hall, and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies. Wolf Hall has been translated into 36 languages, Bring Up the Bodies into 31 languages, and sales for both books have reached over 5 million copies worldwide. In addition to the Wolf Holf trilogy, she is the author of A Place of Greater Safety, Giving Up the Ghost, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Beyond Black, Every Day Is Mother's Day, Vacant Possession, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street Fludd, A Change of Climate, An Experiment in Love, The Giant, O'Brien, and Learning to Talk.
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