DESERTION

Book ID/图书代码： 11701205B02816

English Summary/英文概要： Early one morning in 1899, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But that morning he never gets there, for out of the desert stumbles an Englishman who collapses at his feet.

That man is Martin Pearce - writer, traveller and something of an Orientalist. He is taken to recuperate at the house of a colonial official, Frederick Turner. When he visits Hassanali to thank him for his rescue, he meets his sister Rehana and is immediately fascinated by her beautiful eyes and her air of tragedy.

In this crumbling town on the edge of civilised life, with the empire on the brink of a new century, a passionate love affair begins that brings two cultures together and that will reverberate through three generations and across continents. It carries its consequences to Zanzibar in the early 1950s, a country struggling with its complicated legacy of slavery and foreign rule.

Here another forbidden love affair begins as Zanzibar moves inexorably towards Independence - and revolution. Through the lives of his characters Abdulrazak Gurnah creates an unforgettable portrait of a continent in upheaval. Ambitious, moving and absorbing, it is a spellbinding novel from a writer at the height of his powers.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1899年的一个早晨,海沙那里从蒙巴萨岛海岸的一个小镇出发去寻找清真寺.那天早晨他没有找到,因为他被一个躺在沙漠里的病人拌倒了。那个人是马丁皮尔斯,是一位作家,旅行家,也是一位东方学者.他刚刚从弗雷德里克特那殖民属复员归来.他见到了海沙那里，感谢他的援救，同时也见到了他的妹妹瑞哈娜，立刻被她漂亮的眼睛和悲伤的表情所迷住。在这个文明即将破碎的小镇里，在帝国即将处在新世纪边缘的时刻，奔放的爱情无疑会使两种文化融合在一起，这种影响跨越三代人，跨越整个大陆。同样的爱情也发生在1950年的桑几巴尔岛，一个同奴隶制度和外来统治不断斗争的国度。一段违反世俗的爱情把桑几巴尔岛推向了独立。通过主人公的生活，作者创造了一个令人难忘的动荡的大陆。场面宏大，情节动人，这是作者创作颠峰的一部引人入胜的小说。(Vinelle)

Awards/获奖情况：’A careful and heartfelt exploration of the way memory inevitably consoles and disappoints us’ Sunday Times

’Beautifully written and pleasurable ... The work of a maestro’ Guardian

’An absorbing novel about abandonment and loss’ Daily Telegraph

About the Author/作者介绍： 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 (longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction). He is Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent. He lives in Canterbury.

Format:HARDCOVER

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：SOLD

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Armenia: Antares, Brazil: Companhia das Letras, Denmark: Gutkind, France: Denoël, India (Malayalam): Green Books, Netherlands: Meulenhoff, Norway: Gyldendal, Poland: Poznanskie, Romania: Litera, Spain: Salamandra, Spain (Catalan): La Magrana, Sweden: Bonniers, Tamil language: Ethir Veliyeedu, Turkey: Iletisim.

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