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One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor.

Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learn to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic American Odyssey--hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.

查尔斯・弗雷泽在北卡罗来纳州的山区长大。目前，他与妻子、女儿居住在罗利，他们在那里养马度日，过着隐士般的生活。《冷山》是他的第一部小说，也是目前为止他惟一一部小说。该作品因“描写了人与土地的复杂情感与关系”而荣获美国国家图书奖、美国书商协会年度图书大奖，成为美国十大畅销书之一。