A sweeping saga of love and greed set during the mid-nineteenth century gold rush in New Zealand.

Joseph and Harriet Blackstone, along with Joseph’s mother Lilian, emigrate from England in search of new beginnings and prosperity in New Zealand. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in the creek, he guiltily hides the discovery from his wife and mother, and is seized by a rapturous obsession with the voluptuous riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new gold fields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of the “colour,” are violently rushing to their destinies.

Harriet bravely decides to pursue her own journey towards an uncertain future. But nothing has prepared her for what happens when she too arrives at the gold diggings. Amid squalor and confusion, burning heat and icy flood, Harriet Blackstone comes face to face with the true cost of desire.

Hauntingly evocative and, by turns, both moving and terrifying, The Colour is the story of a quest for the impossible, an attempt to mine the complexities of love and in the process discover what it is that makes men and women happy.

罗丝·特里梅因 （Rose Tremain）

1943年出生于伦敦。荷兰葛洛宁恩大学英语语言与文化硕士，现于英国东安格利亚大学教授创意写作。

少年时期即开始创作，33岁时出版第一本小说，从此笔耕不辍。作品获奖众多，包括惠特布莱德奖年度好书、英国布莱克小说纪念奖、法国费米娜外国小说奖、狄兰·托马斯文学奖、《周日快报》年度选书等。

2008年凭借《回家的路》获英国橘子奖，奠定了她在世界文坛的知名度及影响力。担任过两届布克奖

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