阿卜杜勒拉扎克·古尔纳：朝圣之路 Pilgrims Way

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 304 pages

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

ISBN:9781526653475

Published:23 Dec 2021

Weight:218g

Dimensions:129 x 198 x 22 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

由2021年诺贝尔文学奖得主创作

对一个移民的生活进行了非同寻常的描述，他努力接受自己过去的恐怖经历和他到英国朝圣的意义。

亲爱的凯瑟琳，他开始了。我坐在这里，以请你吃饭为由做了一顿饭。我真的不知道该怎么做。为了保持文化的完整性，我必须让我的姨妈谨慎地与你的姨妈交谈，然后她会与你的母亲交谈，她会与我的母亲交谈，她会与我的父亲交谈，他们会与我交谈，然后接近你的母亲，她会接近你。

小小的迫害以及生活的肮脏和贫穷使达乌德士气低落，他在想象中寻求庇护。他写了一些狡猾、尖刻的信，讽刺朋友和敌人，并为他遇到的每一位老人编造了一段肮脏的殖民历史。他的慰藉是板球和帝国在强大的西印度群岛手中的象征性失败。尽管他受到痛苦和悔恨的攻击，但他迷人的幽默感从未抛弃过他，因为他在努力接受他过去的恐怖和他到英国朝圣的意义。

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**

An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England

Dear Catherine, he began. Here I sit, making a meal out of asking you to dinner. I don't really know how to do it. To have cultural integrity, I would have to send my aunt to speak, discreetly, to your aunt, who would then speak to your mother, who would speak to my mother, who would speak to my father, who would speak to me and then approach your mother, who would then approach you.

Demoralised by small persecutions and the squalor and poverty of his life, Daud takes refuge in his imagination. He composes wry, sardonic letters hectoring friends and enemies, and invents a lurid colonial past for every old man he encounters. His greatest solace is cricket and the symbolic defeat of the empire at the hands of the mighty West Indies. Although subject to attacks of bitterness and remorse, his captivating sense of humour never deserts him as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England.

媒体评价

“[Gurnah's] sentences are deceptively soft, but the cumulative force for me felt like a sledgehammer. He has written work that is absolutely unflinching and yet at the same time completely compassionate and full of heart for people of East Africa. He is writing stories that are often quiet stories of people who aren't heard, but there's an insistence there that we listen.” ―Maaza Mengiste, author of THE SHADOW KING, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize

“Gurnah writes with wonderful insight about family relationships and he folds in the layers of history with elegance and warmth.” ―The Times

“[A] captivating storyteller, with a voice both lyrical and mordant, and an oeuvre haunted by memory and loss. His intricate novels of arrival and departure … reveal, with flashes of acerbic humour, the lingering ties that bind continents, and how competing versions of history collide.” ―Guardian

“Gurnah etches with biting incisiveness the experiences of immigrants exposed to contempt, hostility or patronising indifference on their arrival in Britain.” ―Spectator

作者简介

阿卜杜勒-拉扎克·古尔纳（Abdulrazak Gurnah），1948年出生于桑给巴尔（现隶属坦桑尼亚），20世纪60年代作为难民移居英国，坦桑尼亚作家，代表作有《天堂》《沙漠》《海边》等。 从20世纪80年代开始，他陆续出版了10多部小说和一些短篇小说，作品围绕难民主题，主要描述殖民地人民的生存状况，聚焦于身份认同、种族冲突及历史书写等，他展现的后殖民时代生存现状被认为具有重要的社会现实意义。

2021年10月7日，阿卜杜勒-拉扎克·古尔纳被授予2021年诺贝尔文学奖，颁奖词是：“毫不妥协并充满同理心地深入探索着殖民主义的影响，关切着那些夹杂在文化和地缘裂隙间难民的命运。 ”

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.