CLIFFORD: A MEMOIR, A FICTION, A FANTASY, A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT
Book ID/图书代码： 06481019C00007
English Summary/英文概要： I open my eyes in the darkness, laying on my side, half my vision is of the earth and shadows; the other is of the sky, treetops, and stars. I should write Clifford’s story. The thought emerges fully formed . . . The thought dissipates. I close my eyes and the earth and the sky disappear. The warmth of my sleeping bag wraps around me and sleep pulls me under into that half-world where reality and fantasy mingle in a place where coherent thoughts disintegrate.
When Harold Johnson returns to his childhood home in a northern Saskatchewan Indigenous community for his brother Clifford’s funeral, the first thing his eyes fall on is a chair. It stands on three legs, the fourth broken off and missing. So begins a journey through the past, a retrieval of recollections that have too long sat dormant. Moving from the old family home to the log cabin, the garden, and finally settling deep in the forest surrounding the property, his mind circles back, shifting in time and space, weaving in and out of memories of his silent, powerful Swedish father; his formidable Cree mother, an expert trapper and a source of great strength; and his brother Clifford, a precocious young boy who is drawn to the mysterious workings of the universe.
As the night unfolds, memories of Clifford surface in Harold’s mind’s eye: teaching his younger brother how to tie his shoelaces; jousting on a bicycle without rubber wheels; building a motorcycle. Memory, fiction, and fantasy collide, and Clifford comes to life as the scientist he was meant to be, culminating in his discovery of the Grand Unified Theory.
Exquisitely crafted, funny, visionary, and wholly moving, Clifford is an extraordinary work for the way it defies strict category and embraces myriad forms of storytelling. To read it is to be immersed in a home, a family, a community, the wider world, the entire cosmos.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我在黑暗中睁开眼睛，侧身躺着，一半的视线是大地和阴影;另一半是天空、树梢和星星。我应该写下克利福德的故事。这种思想完全形成了……有逐渐消散。我闭上眼睛，大地和天空消失了。睡袋的温暖把我裹得严严实实，睡眠把我拉进了一个半睡半醒的世界，现实和幻想在这个世界里交织在一起，在那里，条理清晰的思想开始瓦解。
当哈罗德•约翰逊回到他在萨斯喀彻温省北部土著社区的童年故居，参加弟弟克利福德的葬礼时，他首先注意到的是一把椅子。它用三条腿站立，第四条腿断了，不见了。于是开始了一段穿越过去的旅程，一段沉睡了太久的回忆。从古老的家庭住宅搬到小木屋、花园，最后在房子周围的森林深处定居下来，他的思绪又回到了过去，在时空中穿梭，穿梭于对他沉默、强大的瑞典父亲的记忆之中，他那令人敬畏的克里族母亲，一个老练的猎人和强大的力量源泉；还有他的弟弟克利福德，一个早熟的小男孩，被宇宙的神秘运作所吸引。
随着夜幕的降临，关于克利福德的记忆浮现在哈罗德的脑海里:教他的弟弟如何系鞋带;在没有橡胶车轮的自行车上比武；制造一个摩托车。记忆、小说和幻想交织在一起，克利福德以他本应成为的科学家的身份出现了，最终他发现了大统一理论。
精美的制作，有趣的，有远见的，并完全感人，《克利福德》是一个不同寻常的作品，因为它打破了严格的类别，并包含了无数形式的故事。阅读它就是沉浸在一个家，一个家庭，一个社区，更广阔的世界，甚至整个宇宙。（WYL）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 哈罗德•约翰逊是五部小说和两部非小说作品的作者。他的最新著作《烈酒：酒精是如何杀死我的家人（和你们的家人)》入围了总督文学奖的决赛。他出生在萨斯喀彻温省北部，父亲是瑞典人，母亲是克里人。他毕业于哈佛大学法学院，在成为一名刑事检察官之前，曾在一家私人诊所经营了数年。约翰逊是蒙特利尔克里湖民族的一员，和妻子琼住在萨斯喀彻温省的北端。
HAROLD R. JOHNSON is the author of five works of fiction and two works of nonfiction. His most recent book, Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours), was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction. Born and raised in northern Saskatchewan to a Swedish father and a Cree mother, he is a graduate of Harvard Law School and managed a private practice for several years before becoming a Crown prosecutor. Johnson is a member of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation and lives in the north end of Saskatchewan, with his wife, Joan.
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