THE CAULIFLOWER
Book ID/图书代码： 11701215B84911
English Summary/英文概要： 1862, approximately...
Nicola Barker’s new novel is about a real-life unlettered sage who spoke only in a primitive and colloquial Bengali - in a kind of abstruse Haiku. A curiously effete village boy who stammered, who didn’t understand a word of English, who went to school but wouldn’t - yes wouldn’t - read. At a time when the world was ripe with a glossy new secularism - bursting at the seams with revolutionary ideas about science and knowledge and Art and progress - this singular individual would tie his wearing cloth around his hips with an expanse of fabric hanging down at the back to simulate a tail (and him a respectable Brahmin - a temple priest), then leap - with beguiling agility - from tree branch to tree branch, pretending to be an ape (no, worse, much worse than that) believing himself to be an ape.
Eventually he would be called God. Avatar. Paramahamsa. He would be called The Great Swan.
This squealing, furtive, hyperactive, freely urinating beast is none other than Sri Ramakrishna.
Although some people call him Gadadhar Chatterjee, or Uncle, or Master, or guru (which he loathes). His real name, his actual name - the name you will rarely ever hear - is Shabhu Chandra. The Cauliflower® is his story.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Nicola Barker的最新小说围绕着一位目不识丁、只会讲一种原始的孟加拉土语的圣人展开。故事发生在大约1862年左后。这个柔弱的农村男孩说话结巴，不懂英语。虽然在学校念书，但其实根本不会阅读。在那个世界充斥着新世俗主义的时代，有关科学、知识、艺术、进步的各种革命性思想正在爆发，而这个奇怪的小人只会把衣服包裹在腰间留下一段面料当作尾巴，敏捷地在树枝之间跳跃穿梭，假装自己是只猿猴，（或比这个更糟糕的是）相信自己就是只猿猴。
而他后来被人们称为上帝、神的化身、 Paramahamsa……这个人不是别人，正是室利•罗摩克里希纳。尽管许多人称他为“Gadadhar Chatterjee”、“大师”等，但其实他不为人知的真名叫Shabhu Chandra。本书讲述的就是他的故事。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“Phenomenally good”
Patrick Ness
[on DARKMANS]
About the Author/作者介绍： Nicola Barker已经出版了9部小说，其中包括《DARKMANS》（入围2007年布克奖和翁达杰奖决选短名单并获得Hawthornden奖）、《WIDE OPEN 》（获得2000年国际IMPAC都柏林文学奖）、《 CLEAR》（入围2004年布克奖初选长名单）、《THE YIPS》（入围2012年布克奖决选短名单）。还著有两部获奖短篇小说集。1993年入选《格兰塔》杂志的“最佳英国青年作家”。她的作品已经被翻译成了20多国的语言。
Nicola Barker’s nine previous novels include DARKMANS (shortlisted for the 2007 Booker and Ondaatje prizes, and winner of the Hawthornden), WIDE OPEN (winner of the 2000 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), CLEAR (longlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize) and THE YIPS (shortlisted for the 2012 Booker Prize). She has also written two prize-winning collections of short stories. She was chosen one of Granta’s Best of Young British Authors in 1993 and her work has been translated into more than twenty languages.
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