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Schroder. By Amity Gaige. Twelve; 272 pages; $21.99. Faber and Faber14.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk 《父亲的罪》作者艾米蒂盖奇，十二出版社，共272页，售价21.99美元;费伯-费伯出版社，售价14.99欧元;Amazon.com以及 Amazon.co.uk网上书店有售。 ERIC is the unlikeliest of characters to charm a reader. His life is a tabloid drama: man abducts daughter, gets arrested and confesses in a letter to his estranged wife. It is to the credit of Amity Gaige, an American writer, that her third novel, Schroder, transforms this thriller plot into a deeply moving tale. 埃里克的人生就像通俗小报刊登的故事：他拐跑亲生女儿，为此锒铛入狱，随后写信向分居的妻子表示忏悔。这种人物最不可能赢得读者的青睐。多亏美国作家艾米蒂盖奇(Amity Gaige)，她用妙笔将惊悚情节演绎成一个感人至深的故事，这就是盖奇的第三部小说《父亲的罪》(Schroder)。 Erics story is one of multiple deceptions. At the age of eight, and named Erik Schroder, he landed in America with his father from East Germany. Six years later he assumed the name Eric Kennedy and never minded if people presumed he was related to the slain president. These primordial lies set the stage for his later unravelling. His marriage to Laura, which brought a happiness he hardly dared believe, breaks up when their daughter, Meadow, is four years old. Knowing that divorce will expose his pretence and endanger contact with his child, Eric flees with her into the wooded mountains of northern New York. 层层叠叠的谎言构成了埃里克的生活。八岁时以埃里克施罗德(Erik Schroder)的化名，跟随父亲从东德搬迁至美国。六年后，他更名埃里克肯尼迪(Eric Kennedy)，有时被误认为那位惨遭暗杀的美国总统的亲戚，他也丝毫不介意。这些谎言为他日后的遭遇埋下祸根。和劳拉的婚姻生活竟然是如此的幸福，不过一切就在女儿麦朵(Meadow)四岁时烟消云散。一旦离婚，他不得不暴露真实身份，还有可能承受失去女儿的痛苦。想到这里，埃里克带着小麦朵逃匿到纽约州北部的森林里。 | 
