THE WAY TO THE SPRING:LIFE AND DEATH IN PALESTINE

Book ID/图书代码： 12844015B86263

English Summary/英文概要： Brave, lucid, and beautifully written, this is a searing account of life in Palestine from an award-winning writer and journalist.

This is a book about Palestine today. It is neither apologetic nor romanticized, but a powerful and brilliantly realized scream of a book, scorching and tender, from a journalist whose anger and empathy burn through every word.

Over the past three years, Ben Ehrenreich has shared the laughter, furor and sorrow of people in cities and villages across the West Bank, young and old people, men and women. He has witnessed the extremes to which they are pushed, the daily deprivation and oppression that they face, the strategies they construct to survive it - stoicism, resignation, rebellion, humor, and a stubborn, defiant joy. In The Way to Spring, he describes the cruel mechanics of the Israeli occupation and the endless absurdities and tragedies it engenders: the complex and humiliating machinery of the checkpoints, walls, courts and prisons; the steady, strangling loss of lands that have been passed down for generations; the constant ebb and flow of deadly violence.

Blending political and historical context with the personal stories of the people Ehrenreich meets, The Way to Spring is a testimony, a provocation and a vital document. Written with grace and power, it breathes fresh life and urgency to a place and a conflict that too easily disappears in the shouting. This is a necessary book, an unflinching act of witnessing.

Ben Ehrenreich is the author of two novels, Ether and The Suitors and many articles, stories, and essays. He lives in Los Angeles.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 勇敢、清晰、文字优美，这是一个生活在巴勒斯坦的获奖作家与记者的一本言词灼热之书。

这是本关于巴勒斯坦现今状况的书。它既不含歉意亦不浪漫，却是一本带着灼热的温柔之书，带着带着作者的愤怒与同情贯穿全书，强大而又出色得令人拍案叫绝。

在过去的三年里，Ben Ehrenreich分享过跨越西部河流的城市和村庄男女老少的欢笑、忿怒与悲伤。他见证过他们是如何被逼到极端，他们所面对的日常剥削与压迫，他们构筑的生存战略————淡泊，辞职，叛逆，幽默，和倔强，桀骜不驯的喜悦。此书中，他描述了以色列的占领和无尽的荒谬和悲剧它所引起的残酷：关口，墙壁，法院和监狱的复杂性和屈辱的机制；稳定地抹杀流传了几代人的土地损失；致命暴力的低潮涌动。

糅合政治历史背景与Ehrenreich所遇见的个人故事，此书是一个见证、挑衅行为与一份重要文件。带着翩翩风度与力量，它呼吸着新鲜生活与迫切，在一个太容易在喊声中消失的发生冲突的地方。这是一本见证了一个坚定行为的必要之书。

Ben Ehrenreich是两部小说《乙醚》和《求婚者》的作者，并作了许多文章、故事和散文。他住在洛杉矶。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：“如此心碎的一本书，这本书亦是带着莫名的快乐，因为Ehrenreich掌握了巴勒斯坦斗争的本质：不是伊斯兰教，更不是民族主义而是非正义方的固执否定，不安地去搜索“感觉自由是怎样的”，正如Nina Simone所说。此书不仅仅是一份新闻性的记载性作品。它是一首燃着人性的自由之歌。”—Adam Shatz

“As heart-breaking as it is, The Way to the Spring is also a strangely joyful book, because Ehrenreich grasps the essence of the Palestinian struggle: not Islam, or even nationalism, but the stubborn refusal of injustice, the restless search for ‘how it would feel to be free,’ as Nina Simone said. The Way to the Spring is more than a work of journalism. It is a freedom song, burning with humanity.”—Adam Shatz

About the Author/作者介绍： Ben Ehrenreich,一个天才小说家和记者，前往巴勒斯坦并非去指导或讲座，正如有太多的作家都做了，去聆听。其结果是强大的，有时候几乎头脑发热的人们带着创造力、组织多美和独特的严峻幽默感与之反抗压迫。巴勒斯坦人的生活关乎于Ehrenreich，他自下而上带着利害的抒情、小说性的亲密和革命的紧迫感去描写他们。他的英雄不是政治家和政客而是普通的男人和女人生活在现代历史上被最为旷日持久的军事占领下的普通人们，他们有勇气去相信他们值得过得更好。他们不能继续前进，并且他们现在所做的就是用他们的肉体与世界上最强大的军队之一对抗。如此心碎的一本书，这本书亦是带着莫名的快乐，因为Ehrenreich掌握了巴勒斯坦斗争的本质：不是伊斯兰教，更不是民族主义而是非正义方的固执否定，不安地去搜索“感觉自由是怎样的”，正如Nina Simone所说。此书不仅仅是一份新闻性的记载性作品。它是一首燃着人性的自由之歌。

Ben Ehrenreich, a gifted novelist and journalist, went to Palestine not to instruct or lecture, as all too many writers have done, but to listen. The result is a powerful, at times almost feverish account of a people defying oppression, with creativity, resourcefulness, and a distinctively grim sense of humor. Palestinian lives matter to Ehrenreich, and he writes about them from the bottom-up, with hard-boiled lyricism, novelistic intimacy and a revolutionary’s sense of urgency. His heroes are not statesmen and politicians, but ordinary men and women who, living under the most protracted military occupation in modern history, have the nerve to believe they deserve better. They can’t go on, and yet they do, putting their bodies on the line against one of the world’s most powerful armies. As heart-breaking as it is, The Way to the Spring is also a strangely joyful book, because Ehrenreich grasps the essence of the Palestinian struggle: not Islam, or even nationalism, but the stubborn refusal of injustice, the restless search for "how it would feel to be free," as Nina Simone said. The Way to the Spring is more than a work of journalism. It is a freedom song, burning with humanity.

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