内容简介:George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.
作者简介:
George Orwell (1903-1950) was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma, fought with the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, and was a member of the Home Guard and a writer for the BBC during World War II. He is the author of many works of nonfiction and fiction, including Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, and Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
乔治·奥威尔,英国记者、小说家、散文家和评论家。乔治·奥威尔一生短暂,但其以敏锐的洞察力和犀利的文笔审视和记录着他所生活的那个时代,作出了许多超越时代的预言,被称为 “一代人的冷峻良知”。其代表作有《动物庄园》和《一九八四》。