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Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search
出版社： Penguin Putnam Inc.
書林書號：
20176143
作者：
Sixsmith, Martin/ Dench, Judi
定價：
560
會員價：
$476
ISBN：
9780143124726
出版年份：
2013
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
0
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遲來的守護者

1952年民風保守的愛爾蘭，未婚懷孕仍被視為社會禁忌。羞憤交加之下，家人將當時仍是青少女的菲洛米娜送進修道院，為她安上墮落的罪名，與其他同是未婚懷孕的少女們朝夕相處。 

在修女們幫忙接生下，菲洛米娜產後在院內洗衣間工作，但礙於修道院規矩，一天只有短短一小時能與愛子安東尼相處。直到安東尼三歲那一年，不顧菲洛米娜強烈反對，修女們私下將他賣給了一個美國家庭領養。自此之後，菲洛米娜耗費五十年的歲月追尋愛子蹤跡，卻始終徒勞無功。 

命運撮合下，她碰巧結識了馬汀西克史密斯，他是一名前BBC特派員，也曾就任布萊爾政府的公共關係室主任。聽過菲洛米娜尋訪愛子的漫長經歷後，馬汀決心兩肋插刀與她結伴。她信仰虔誠、直來直往，他憤世嫉俗、見多識廣；這對性格信仰、教育水準與出身背景都天差地遠的兩人組成了最奇異的搭檔，聯手共闖美國尋覓安東尼的下落。

New York Times Bestseller

Now a major motion picture starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and nominated for four Academy Awards: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years

When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a “fallen woman.” Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Philomena’s son was trying to find her. Renamed Michael Hess, he had become a leading lawyer in the first Bush administration, and he struggled to hide secrets that would jeopardize his career in the Republican Party and endanger his quest to find his mother.

A gripping exposé told with novelistic intrigue, Philomena pulls back the curtain on the role of the Catholic Church in forced adoptions and on the love between a mother and son who endured a lifelong separation.
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