Charles Frazier and Cold Mountain

In 1999, the work Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (b. 1950) won America's National Book Award. The book was published in 1997 by New York's Atlantic Monthly Press. It was Frazier's first novel. As soon as it was released, Cold Mountain proved to be a huge success, and stayed in The New York Times bestseller list for 45 weeks straight. 

Set at the end of the American Civil War, the book tells a soldier's torturous journey home from the battlefield to be with his love. In December 2003, the adapted film Cold Mountain was first released to the public, and later it was introduced into China.

In Chinese translation, the names of the film and novel were both directly translated to "Leng Shan." But Frazier had included a quotation from the poet Han Shan (whose name literally means "cold mountain") on his novel's title page: "When a man seeks the way to Cold Mountain, he finds the road is closed." The line encapsulates the hopeless longing of the novel's hero for a life of happiness.

查爾斯·弗雷澤與《冷山》

1999年，查爾斯·弗雷澤的《冷山》獲得美國(guó)國(guó)家圖書獎(jiǎng)。該小說(shuō)由紐約大西洋月刊出版社于1997年出版，是弗雷澤的小說(shuō)處女作。小說(shuō)一經(jīng)面世就受到了熱烈歡迎，連續(xù)45周名列《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》暢銷書榜。

該書講述了美國(guó)南北戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)結(jié)束之際，一位士兵為了自己所愛(ài)在返回家園過(guò)程中所經(jīng)歷的多災(zāi)多難的旅途故事。2003年12月，由小說(shuō)改編的同名電影《冷山》公映，并被引入中國(guó)。雖然影片片名和小說(shuō)名稱都直譯為《冷山》，但在小說(shuō)扉頁(yè)上，作者弗雷澤則引用了寒山的詩(shī)句“人問(wèn)寒山道，寒山路不通”，寄托了主人公對(duì)可望而不可即的美好生活的向往。