Oscar and Lucinda-奥斯卡与露辛达

作者：Peter Carey

书名：Oscar and Lucinda《奥斯卡与露辛达》

中文简介：Oscar and Lucinda《奥斯卡与露辛达》这本书讲述了牧师奥斯卡和富有的女继承人露辛达之间的故事，他们在前往澳大利亚的轮船上相遇，发现彼此都是赌徒，一个沉迷于此，一个难以自控。露辛达跟奥斯卡打了个赌，而这个赌约永远地改变了他们的生活……获得布克奖之后，这本书又于1989年获得了迈尔斯·富兰克林奖，还提名了布克奖最佳书单。

英文简介：Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. 

Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country girl of singular ambition, Lucinda moves to Sydney, driven by dreams of self-reliance and the building of an industrial Utopia. Together this unlikely pair create and are created by the spectacle of mid-nineteenth century Australia. 

Peter Carey's visionary brilliance, and his capacity to delight and surprise, propel this story to its stunning conclusion.