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A swan s song 天鹅之歌 Peter Carey s delightful double story: TheChemistry of Tears，by Peter Carey. 彼得凯里悦人的双线故事:《泪水制剂》,彼得凯里著。 Few writers manage so consistently anddelightfully as Peter Carey to conjure wondrousscenes populated with idiosyncratic yet crediblecharacters. The Chemistry of Tears, Mr Carey s12th novel, does not disappoint. 鲜少有文墨之人能像彼得凯里那样执着又讨喜，将一个个角色塑造得如此独特又不失真实感，再将其一并投入完美的场景中，共同构造出一幕幕戏法般的情节。凯里的第十二部小说《泪水制剂》，再一次没让我们失望。 As it opens, Catherine Gehrig, a conservator of clocks at a London museum, learns that hercolleague and secret lover of 13 years has died. To comfort her in her grief she is assigneda new project: to reconstruct a fantastical 19th-century clockwork swan. 故事从一家伦敦博物馆的钟表管理员凯瑟琳格里克身上开始说起。凯瑟琳得知了她的同事的死讯，为了抚平悲痛，她接受了一项新任务修复一个十九世纪精美的天鹅钟表。 Mr Carey loves grand projects and intricate crafts. In Oscar and Lucinda he follows an extraordinary glass and iron church downriver to its finaldestination; the art of forgery pervades Parrot and Olivier in America. In The Chemistryof Tears, the inner workings of a clock s reliable tick-tock contrast with the ultimatebetrayal of human flesh. | 
