晚光：理查德·杰弗里斯奖入围名单 Late Light

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 272 pages

Publisher:Bonnier Books Ltd

Imprint:Manilla Press

ISBN:9781786581440

Published:6 Jun 2024

Weight:194g

Dimensions:196 x 128 x 18 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这是一本关于爱上消失之物的书

《晚光》讲述了迈克尔·马莱自己的旅程，他是一名印尼裔澳大利亚人，在英国安家，发现自己的生活与他所研究的动物的生活有着奇怪的相似之处。这本书将自然历史与回忆录相结合，探索了我们动物邻居的奥秘，包括它们的丰富性和多样性。它讲述了这些动物给我们祖先带来的奇迹、它们给我们带来的希望，以及它们可能仍会给我们的孩子带来的快乐。

《晚光》是关于迁徙、归属和灭绝的。通过仔细研究四种特别“不受欢迎”的动物——鳗鱼、飞蛾、蟋蟀和贻贝——迈克尔·马莱讲述了塑造英国现代景观的经济、政治和文化事件的故事。

对于罗伯特·麦克法兰、雷纳·温和海伦·麦克唐纳的读者来说，《晚光》是回忆录、自然历史、自然写作和对存在和归属感的沉思的丰富融合，来自一个充满活力的新声音。

This is a book about falling in love with vanishing things

Late Light is the story of Michael Malay's own journey, an Indonesian Australian making a home for himself in England and finding strange parallels between his life and the lives of the animals he examines. Mixing natural history with memoir, this book explores the mystery of our animal neighbours, in all their richness and variety. It is about the wonder these animals inspired in our ancestors, the hope they inspire in us, and the joy they might still hold for our children.

Late Light is about migration, belonging and extinction. Through the close examination of four particular 'unloved' animals - eels, moths, crickets and mussels - Michael Malay tells the story of the economic, political and cultural events that have shaped the modern landscape of Britain.

For readers of Robert Macfarlane, Raynor Winn and Helen Macdonald, Late Light is a rich blend of memoir, natural history, nature writing, and a meditation on being and belonging, from a vibrant new voice.

作者简介

迈克尔·马莱是布里斯托尔的一名作家兼教师。他早年在印度尼西亚雅加达生活，十岁时随家人移居澳大利亚。《晚光》是他的初本书。

Michael Malay is a writer and teacher based in Bristol. He spent his early years in Jakarta, Indonesia, before moving to Australia with his family at the age of ten. Late Light is his first book.