DAMNIFICADOS: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 12580015B86709
English Summary/英文概要： DAMNIFICADOS is loosely based on the real-life occupation of a half-completed skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, the Tower of David. In this fictional version, six hundred “damnificados”—vagabonds and misfits—take over an abandoned urban tower and set up a community complete with schools, stores, beauty salons, bakeries, and a rag-tag defensive militia. Their always heroic (and often hilarious) struggle for survival and dignity pits them against corrupt police, the brutal military, and the tyrannical “owners.”
Taking place in an unnamed country at an unspecified time, the novel has elements of magical realism: avenging wolves, biblical floods, massacres involving multilingual ghosts, arrow showers falling to the tune of Beethoven’s Ninth, and a trash truck acting as a Trojan horse. The ghosts and miracles woven into the narrative are part of a richly imagined world in which the laws of nature are constantly stretched and the past is always present. DAMNIFICADOS uses magical realism, revolutionary politics, and romantic adventure to bring to life a colorful community of squatters in an imaginary Latin American city.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书的创作灵感来自于真实的社会事件：灾民占领了委内瑞拉一座尚未完工的摩天大楼。在这部虚构小说中，600个灾民占领了一座废弃的城市塔楼，建立了一个拥有学校、商店、美容院、面包店和下层社会防御民兵的社区。在那里上演了一幕幕为了生存与尊严与腐败警方、残暴军队和暴政统治者展开的英勇（又滑稽）的斗争。
小说中的故事发生在无名的国度，时间也并不明确，拥有魔幻现实主义的元素：复仇的狼、圣经里的洪水，会说多种语言的鬼魂的大屠杀、从贝多芬第九交响曲曲调里落下的剑雨、作为特洛伊木马来使用的垃圾车。叙述中融入了鬼神和奇迹的元素，创造了一个极富想象力的世界，在这里自然规律被无限延伸，过去即现在。小说融合了魔幻现实主义、革命政治和浪漫冒险，生动形象地描绘了虚构的拉丁美洲城市中丰富多彩的贫民社区。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“在这部神奇的处女作中，一群贫民试图和有钱有势的人一样，在一幢未完工的摩天大楼里安顿下来。损毁的走道，黑暗中冒出来的双头怪兽，土地吞噬了军队……所有的元素都在这个末日复仇幻想中达到了高潮。”——《O: The Oprah Magazine》
"A community of indigents attempting to settle in an unfinished skyscraper lock horns with the wealthy and powerful in this willfully strange debut novel. The crippled walk, two-headed beasts emerge from the gloom, and the earth swallows armies whole in a climax that’s an apocalyptic revenge fantasy." --O: The Oprah Magazine
About the Author/作者介绍： JJ Amaworo Wilson，出生于德国，在英国接受?逃男∷导摇Ｏ志幼≡诿拦?9个国家居住并游历过60个国家。他是著有20多本语言及语言学习图书的获奖作家。本书是他的第一部长篇虚构类作品。他的短篇小说曾由Penguin、Johns Hopkins University Press出版，并在英国和美国的多部文学杂志上发表。
JJ Amaworo Wilson is a German-born, British-educated debut novelist. Based in the U.S., he has lived in 9 countries and visited 60. He is a prizewinning author of over 20 books about language and language learning. DAMNIFICADOS is his first major fiction work. His short fiction has been published by Penguin, Johns Hopkins University Press, and myriad literary magazines in England and the U.S.
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