Distant Sunflower Fields

基本信息

Edited by：Li Juan

Publisher：ACA Publishing Ltd

Published：21 Feb 2021

Language：English

Format Paperback：304 pages

ISBN10：1838905065

ISBN13：9781838905064

Weight：316 g

Dimensions：140 x 216 x 15（mm）

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

地球强大的力量不是地震，而是它作为无数生物生长家园的能力。

一个意志坚强的母亲，一个年迈的祖母，一对不般配的狗和90英亩不太理想的农田:这些是李娟在戈壁大草原上的伙伴。

她在新疆无边无际的地平线下的一个帐篷里写作，记录了她的家人在中国西北边疆的荒凉美丽和贫瘠的广阔土地上，提取一种丰富的向日葵的追求。在面对生活中不可协商的现实:沙尘暴、蝗虫和死亡时，要竭力维持成功。

当这个小部落受到这些逆风的摆布时，他们发现了隐藏在彼此身上的欢呼和尊严。但是他们不断的劳动能带来绿色和黄色的田野吗?或者他们的梦想会像他们脆弱的时候一样遥远吗?

The earth’s most powerful force is not its quake,but rather its ability to be home for myriad creatures to grow‘.

An iron-willed mother, an ageing grandmother, a pair of mismatched dogs and 90 acres of less-than-ideal farmland: these are Li Juan’s companions on the steppes of the Gobi Desert.

Writing out of a yurt under Xinjiang’s endless horizons, she documents her family’s quest to extract a bounty of sunflowers amid the harsh beauty and barren expanses of China’s northwest frontier. Success must be eked out in the face of life’s unnegotiable realities: sandstorms, locusts and death.

While this small tribe is held at the mercy of these headwinds, they discover the cheer and dignity hidden in each other. But will their ceaseless labours deliver blooming fields of green and yellow? Or will their dreams prove as distant as they are fragile?

作者简介

李娟1979年出生于新疆，在四川长大。在她年轻的时候，她学会了缝纫，并和母亲一起经营了一家小便利店，她住在一个游牧民购物的小镇上。后来，她在乌鲁木齐市的一家工厂工作。2003年，她成为一名公务员，直到2008年成为一名全职作家。她的写作生涯始于1999年，当时她是《南方周末》和中国香港《文报》的专栏作家。李娟被广泛认为是她那一代好的非小说类叙述性作家之一，她的作品赢得了多个奖项。《冬季牧场》被认为是她备受欢迎和具代表性的作品。

Born in Xinjiang in 1979, Li Juan grew up in Sichuan Province. In her youth, she learned to sew and run a small convenience store with her mother, living in a town where nomads shopped. Later, she worked in a factory in the city of Urumqi. In 2003, she became a public servant until 2008 when she became a full time author. Her writing career began in 1999, as a columnist for newspapers like Southern Weekly and China, Hong Kong's Wenweipo. Widely regarded as one of the best narrative nonfiction writers of her generation, Li Juan's writing has won several awards. WINTER PASTURE is considered to be her most popular and representative work.