Midwives-助产士

作者：Chris Bohjalian

书名：Midwives《助产士》

中文简介：Midwives《助产士》是克里斯·波贾利安的一部小说。

在佛蒙特州农村一个寒冷的冬夜，一位经验丰富的助产士西比尔·丹福思不顾一切地采取措施挽救婴儿的生命。但确因接生失误致人死亡而接受审判。全书以助产士女儿的视角阐述了爱情、家庭、生死的故事。

英文简介：The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Reddington, Vermont, for fifteen years. But one treacherous winter night, in a house isolated by icy roads and failed telephone lines, Sibyl takes desperate measures to save a baby's life. She performs an emergency Caesarean section on its mother, who appears to have died in labor. But what if—as Sibyl's assistant later charges—the patient wasn't already dead, and it was Sibyl who inadvertently killed her?

As recounted by Sibyl's precocious fourteen-year-old daughter, Connie, the ensuing trial bears the earmarks of a witch hunt except for the fact that all its participants are acting from the highest motives—and the defendant increasingly appears to be guilty. As Sibyl Danforth faces the antagonism of the law, the hostility of traditional doctors, and the accusations of her own conscience, Midwives engages, moves, and transfixes us as only the very best novels ever do.