POSITION DOUBTFUL: MAPPING LANDSCAPES AND MEMORIES

Book ID/图书代码： 11980516B87330

English Summary/英文概要： Imagine the document you have before you is not a book, but a map. It is well-used, creased, and folded, so that when you open it, no matter how carefully, something tears, and a line that is neither latitude nor longitude opens in the hidden geography of the place you are about to enter.

For the past twenty years, writer and artist Kim Mahood has been returning to roam the harsh and beautiful desert country in far north-western Australia where, as a child, she lived with her family on a remote cattle station. The land is timeless, but much has changed: the station has been handed back to its traditional landowners; the mining companies have arrived; and Indigenous art has flourished.

By immersing herself in the life of a small community and its art centre, and in her ground-breaking mapping projects, Mahood has been seeking to understand her own place in the country she loves, and to find a bridge across the fault line between the profoundly disparate cultures that inhabit it.

Position Doubtful is a meditation on that experience. Containing astonishing writing about art and landscape, it is a beautiful and intense exploration of memory and homecoming. Written with great energy, insight, and humour, Position Doubtful is a unique portrait of black-and-white relations in contemporary Australia.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 想象在你出生之前的记录不是一本书，而是一张地图。它好用，满是折痕并被折叠，这样当你打开它时，无论多么仔细，或是撕碎部分，一条你想进入但被隐藏的既不是纬度也不是经度的地形路线在你眼前展开。

在过去的二十年中，作家和艺术家基姆•马胡德一直在遥远的北澳大利亚西部的严酷但美丽的沙漠国家徜徉，当她还是一个孩子，她和她的家人住在该地一个偏远的牛站。土地是永恒的，但许多部分都发生了变化：驻地已交还给了它传统的土地拥有者；采矿公司已经到达，土著艺术正蓬勃发展。

通过将自己沉浸在一个小社区和艺术中心的生活中，沉浸在她的独创地图项目中，马胡德一直试图了解在这个她所钟爱的国家里她自己的位置，并找到一座连接栖息在该地的十分不同的文化之间的断层线的桥梁。

《难以预测的位置》是上述经历的冥想。包含有关艺术和景观的惊人写作，是一次对记忆和回家的美丽而热情的探索。《难以预测的位置》以巨大能量，洞察力和幽默写就，是关于当代澳大利亚的黑白关系的独一无二的肖像。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：’Position Doubtful leaps straight onto the shelf occupied by the great accounts of inland Australia. Theatrical, confessional, masterly descriptive, it is hard to find one word to sum up the achievement. Possibly it lies in the word character: in the brave character of the author herself, and in the spacious, beautiful, and unforgiving character of the Australian landscape and the people who dramatically take on its shape in these pages.’ --Roger McDonald, author of Australia s Wild Places, When Colts Ran, Mr Darwin s Shooter, The Ballad of Desmond Kale

’Position Doubtful attests to an eye that is unfailing and a lifetime of looking … She sees what she sees, and comes to her own conclusions … Powerful.’ --Australian Book Review

’An extraordinary excavation of the relationship, past and present, between settlers and indigenous Australians, deeply grounded in this alluring tract of desert, but with relevance for us all.’ --The Monthly

‘My book of the year … If anyone’s written more beautifully and modestly about this country and its people I’m not aware of it. I think it’s a treasure.’--(Tim Winton The Age ‘Best Books of 2016’)

‘Kim Mahood is an astonishing treasure: an accomplished artist and writer who is equally well-equipped to navigate both Aboriginal and settler Australia. Her lyrical yet unsentimental memoir is a story of honouring the knowledge that two cultures have mapped upon each other, a lesson the entire globe needs to learn.’--(William L. Fox)

‘[Mahood] is a talented writer whose mastery of the language is absolute. The combination of an artist’s eye, a mapmaker’s precision, and a wordsmith’s playfulness makes for a work of captivating beauty … a significant and timely work.’--(Weekend Australian)

‘Position Doubtful attests to an eye that is unfailing and a lifetime of looking … She sees what she sees, and comes to her own conclusions … Powerful.’--(Australian Book Review)

About the Author/作者介绍： 基姆•马胡德于2000年出版的回忆录《一个干湖的工艺》获得了新南威尔士州总理非小说类奖和时代图书非小说类奖。2013年，她因为在非小说类书籍的成就获得了彼得•布莱齐奖金，并入围伊丽莎白短篇小说奖。2014年，她获得了H C库姆斯奖金。

KIM MAHOOD’s 2000 memoir, Craft for a Dry Lake, won the NSW Premier’s Award for nonfiction and the Age Book of the Year for non-fiction. In 2013, she was awarded the Peter Blazey Fellowship for a non-fiction work in progress, and was shortlisted for the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. In 2014, she was awarded the H C Coombs Fellowship.

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