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　　[abstract]提要　　 Everything that shaped him happened near that river.... 　　 Now its banks are filled with lies and greed, shame, and murder....
　　
　　这部紧张刺激的小说（emotionally charged novel）描述的是主人公Adam五年前因为一起谋杀案逃离了家乡，而现在他又选择回来，因为那里有自己热爱的家人和朋友。但是随着一个好友的失踪，好友父亲的走狗们痛打了他一顿，他开始怀疑自己的这次返乡决定，接着，他逐渐发现事情的始末和5年前谋杀案的真相。这是一个有着精心结构（beautifully constructed）的关于个人救赎(personal redemption)、家庭秘密和小镇谋杀(murder―a small-town epic)的故事。
　　下文是从文章的开头摘取的一部分文字，供读者体会。
　　
　　[excerpt]摘录
　　 The river is my earliest memory. The front porch of my father’s house looks down on it from a low knoll, and I have pictures, faded yellow, of my first days on that porch. I slept in my mother’s arms as she rocked there, played in the dust while my father fished, and I know the feel of that river even now: the slow churn of red clay, the back eddies under cut banks, the secrets it whispered to the hard, pink granite of Rowan County. Everything that shaped me happened near that river. I lost my mother in sight of it, fell in love on its banks. I could smell it on the day my father drove me out. It was part of my soul, and I thought I’d lost it forever.
　　 But things can change, that’s what I told myself. Mistakes can be undone, wrongs righted. That’s what brought me home.
　　 Hope.
　　 And anger.
　　 I’d been awake for thirty-six hours and driving for ten. Restless weeks, sleepless nights, and the decision stole into me like a thief. I never planned to go back to North Carolina―I’d buried it―but I blinked and found my hands on the wheel, Manhattan a sinking island to the north. I wore a week-old beard and three-day denim, felt stretched by an edginess that bordered on pain, but no one here would fail to recognize me. That’s what home was all about, for good or bad...
　　
　　[comment]点评
　　 “Grisham-style intrigue and Turow-style brooding.” ―The New York Times
　　 “A gripping performance.”―People Magazine
　　（责编：张雯）

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