巴尔萨姆·卡拉姆: 奇点 入围2021年欧盟文学奖 The Singularity

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 194 pages

Publisher:Fitzcarraldo Editions

Imprint:Fitzcarraldo Editions

ISBN:9781804270813

Published:17 Jan 2024

Weight:256g

Dimensions:158 x 197 x 19 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

在一个不知名的沿海城市，这里居住着许多难民，一位流离失所家庭的母亲在寻找她的孩子，她沿着她女儿曾经工作过的悬崖边道路徘徊，呼唤着她的名字。她寻找了又寻找，直到绝望和悲痛交加，她投海自尽，抛下了其他孩子。目睹了这次自杀的还有另一位妇女——她从遥远的国家出差，肚子肿胀，后来生下了一个死胎。在痛苦的余波中，第二位妇女想起了自己在家人逃离遥远的战争时所经历的一系列损失——语言、国家、身份。《奇点》交织在两种叙事之间，以富有意义的循环散文写成，是瑞典令人兴奋的新作家之一对悲伤、移民和母性的惊人研究。

In an unnamed coastal city home to many refugees, a mother of a displaced family searches for her child, calling her name as she wanders along the cliffside road where her daughter used to work. She searches and searches until, devoid of hope and frantic with grief, she throws herself into the sea, leaving her other children behind. Bearing witness to this suicide is another woman – on a business trip from a distant country, with a swollen belly that later gives birth to a stillborn baby. In the wake of her pain, the second woman remembers her own litany of losses – of a language, a country, an identity – when once her family fled a distant war. Weaving between both narratives and written in looping prose rich with meaning, The Singularity is an astounding study of grief, migration and motherhood from one of Sweden's most exciting new writers.

作者简介

Balsam Karam (生于 1983 年) 有库尔德血统，自幼便生活在瑞典。她是一名作家、图书管理员和大学讲师，2018 年凭借广受好评的《事件视界》初次亮相文学界，该书入围了 Katapult 奖。《奇点》入围了 August 奖，是她的初部英文出版物。

Saskia Vogel 是《许可》(2019) 的作者，也是二十多本瑞典语书籍的译者。她获得了柏林参议院非德语文学奖，并入围了 PEN 翻译奖。她在普林斯顿大学翻译驻留期间创作了《奇点》。她来自洛杉矶，现居住在柏林。

Balsam Karam (b. 1983) is of Kurdish ancestry and has lived in Sweden since she was a young child. She is an author, librarian and university lecturer, and made her literary debut in 2018 with the critically acclaimed Event Horizon, which was shortlisted for the Katapult Prize. The Singularity was shortlisted for the August Prize and is her first English-language publication.

Saskia Vogel is the author of Permission (2019) and the translator of over twenty Swedish-language books. She was awarded the Berlin Senate grant for non-German literature and was a finalist for the PEN Translation Award. She worked on The Singularity as part of her translation residency at Princeton University. From Los Angeles, she now lives in Berlin.