| 词条 | The Burning Shore |
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| name = The Burning Shore | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:TheBurningShore.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Wilbur Smith | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = France/South-West Africa/South Africa | language = English | series = The Courtney Novels | genre = | publisher = Heinemann | release_date = 1985 | english_release_date = | media_type = | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = A Sparrow Falls | followed_by = Power of the Sword }}The Burning Shore is a novel by Wilbur Smith set during and after World War One.[1] Smith called the book his "Road to Damascus" moment because it was the first time he used a female as a major character.[2] It is one of the Courtney Novels. PlotIn 1917 during World War One, South African fighter pilot Michael Courtney falls in love with Centaine, a French woman. On their wedding day – prior to their wedding – Courtney is killed in action, and, following the destruction of her home by a German bombardment, the pregnant Centaine enrols as a nurse and embarks on a hospital ship for South Africa. The ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and Centaine lands on the Skeleton Coast. She attempts to make her way south to South Africa but is adopted by two San who teach her how to survive in the desert. BackgroundSmith later recalled "The women in some of my books are more powerful than the male characters, and that one was the breakthrough novel, because the female lead kicked the arse of all the males in the book... I was involved at the time with a very kick-arse woman [second wife Danielle Thomas] and she was fascinating, and I adapted her into the story.”[3] 1991 Film AdaptationThe book was adapted into a film in 1991 called Mountain of Diamonds or The Burning Shore. It was directed by Jeannot Szwarc. Cast
References1. ^Doomed by Romance: THE BURNING SHORE By Wilbur Smith Doubleday. 420 pp. $17.95By Stephen Hunter. The Washington Post (1974-Current file) [Washington, D.C] 07 Oct 1985: B11. 2. ^"Wilbur Smith answers your questions", BBC News, 6 April 2009 accessed 14 March 2013 3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/11085608/Wilbur-Smith-interview-for-Desert-God-My-life-is-as-good-as-its-ever-been.html|title=Wilbur Smith interview for Desert God: 'My life is as good as it's ever been'|first=Jake|last=Kerridge|date=14 September 2014|publisher=|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}} External links
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