书名：Prayers For The Stolen兔子洞女孩

作者：Jennifer Clement 
出版社名称：Vintage
出版时间：2015

语种：英语
ISBN：9780099587590
商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装
页数：240（以实物为准）

Review

Prayers For The Stolen is stark and brutal, but not without happiness. “Mexico is a warren of hidden women”, says Jennifer Clement. This book is a way of seeing them ― Stylist

Every sentence in Prayers for the Stolen is direct, potent, unexpected; twisting on the page like a knife in the gut… This work also gives us all of a novel's pleasures – a story laden with significance and drama and meaning, a keen feeling of relationship between reader and characters, a fully realised world through which we may roam -- Kirsty Gunn ― Guardian

[Clement] shows the black comedy in the details and the emergency in the broader picture -- Gaby Wood ― Telegraph

现在我们让你变丑了，”母亲说。“在墨西哥zui好的就是丑女孩。”

在墨西哥乡村的山坡上，做一个女孩是很危险的。尤其是漂亮的。如果毒枭听说山上有个漂亮女孩，他们就会把她偷走。当黑色的越野车驶进镇上时，拉迪和她的朋友们躲在山中散落的洞穴里，安全的消失在了人们的视线之外。因为被偷的女孩不会回来了。

拉迪决心走出家门，去寻找一种不只是为了生存而挣扎的生活。但她很快发现，贩毒集团的目光无处不在，城市并不比山区更安全。

'Now we make you ugly,' my mother said. 'The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl.'

On the mountainside in rural Mexico where Ladydi lives, being a girl is dangerous. Especially a pretty one. If the Narcos hear there is a pretty girl on the mountain, they steal her. So when the black SUVs roll into town, Ladydi and her friends hide in the warren of holes scattered across the mountain, safely out of sight. Because the stolen girls don't come back.

Ladydi is determined to get out, to find a life that offers more than just the struggle to survive. But she soon finds that the drug cartels have eyes everywhere, and the cities are no safer than the mountains.

Jennifer Clement is the President of PEN International. She was born in 1960 and has lived in Mexico since 1961. She is a graduate of New York University. She is the author of the memoir Widow Basquiat and three novels: A True Story Based on Lies, The Poison That Fascinates and Prayers for the Stolen. She is also the author of several books of poetry, and is co-founder and director of the San Miguel Poetry Week. Jennifer Clement was awarded the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Fellowship for Literature 2012. She was President of PEN Mexico from 2009 to 2012 and is a member of Mexico's prestigious Sistema Nacional de Creadores. She lives in Mexico City.