GO TELL THE CROCODILES: CHASING PROSPERITY IN MOZAMBIQUE

Book ID/图书代码： 12861018C00006

English Summary/英文概要： Over the past twenty-five years, Mozambique has charted a path of dizzying economic growth nearly as steep as China’s, making it among the fastest-growing economies on the planet. But most Mozambicans have little to show for the long boom; to travel in Mozambique is to see much of the promise of development as a mirage. And in the fall of 2016, a debt crisis unraveled layers of corruption that reverberated across Europe, heralding what many in the financial world feared might be the beginning of a “global financial shockwave” (The Guardian).

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在过去的25年间，莫桑比克的经济发展速度和中国一样非常惊人，成为了全球发展最快的经济体之一。但是大多数莫桑比克人在漫长的繁荣时期几乎没有什么突出表现；在莫桑比克就是将多数的发展承诺看成是海市蜃楼。2016年秋季，一场债务危机揭开了整个欧洲的腐败层级，预示着金融界许多人担心的可能发生的“全球金融冲击波”的开始。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：“一部生动而发人深思的作品……作者通过九个章节对莫桑比克个体和社群的描绘将莫桑比克的复杂性展现在了读者面前。”——《书目杂志》

“本书读起来感觉像是一本杂志的不同部分，为读者广泛呈现出莫桑比克生活丰富多彩的方方面面。”——《出版人周刊》

“作者生动呈现了莫桑比克的复杂性及其人民是如何度过各种困难时期的。正如作者所说，追逐繁荣和抓住繁荣是非常不同的。”——《科克斯书评》

“随着史诗般的各色人物陆续登场，作者笔下的莫桑比克就像是一颗宝石的原石，为我们折射出非洲以及所有国家的奋斗和与残酷的过去、现代化的虚假前景进行的斗争。”——Delphine Schrank，作家，著有《仰光的造反者》

Praise for Go Tell the Crocodiles: “[A] vivid and thought-provoking book. . . . Moore Gerety unpacks the complexities of Mozambican society through nine chapter-length sketches of individuals and communities.”—Booklist

“[Go Tell the Crocodiles] reads very much like a multipart serial for a magazine, amply enlightening the reader about various aspects of Mozambique life.”—Publishers Weekly

"Gerety effectively illustrates Mozambique’s complexities and how people navigate difficult circumstances. As the author shows, chasing prosperity is rather different from catching prosperity."—Kirkus Reviews

“With a cast of characters vast enough for an epic, Gerety’s Mozambique emerges facet by facet like a rough-hewn jewel, reflecting back at us the struggles of Africa and of all countries wrestling with a brutal past and the false promises of modernity.”—Delphine Schrank, author of The Rebel of Rangoon

“Overflows with fantastically close reporting, cool and subtle judgments, and characters that absolutely leap to life. Rowan Moore Gerety gets next to all sorts of Mozambicans—street vendors, poor farmers, a people smuggler, the hapless leader of the political opposition—and then takes us deep into lives that illuminate the dark, pitiless dynamics of profound underdevelopment.” —William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days and staff writer for the New Yorker

About the Author/作者介绍： Rowan Moore Gerety，驻迈阿密记者。他的作品刊载于《外交政策》《迈阿密先驱报》《弗吉尼亚季刊》等各大报刊杂志上，他还为NPR和PRI制作了广播故事。他在哥伦比亚大学学习人类学，是莫桑比克的Fulbright研究员。这是他的第一本书。

Rowan Moore Gerety is a journalist based in Miami. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, the Miami Herald, Slate, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and he has produced radio stories for NPR and PRI. He studied anthropology at Columbia University and was a Fulbright fellow in Mozambique. This is his first book.

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