TO THE VOLCANO, AND OTHER STORIES
Book ID/图书代码： 08136019C00014
English Summary/英文概要： These are stories of people caught up in a world that tilts seductively, sometimes dangerously, between south and north, between ambition and tradition, between light and dark. Her characters are poised to leave or on the point of return; often caught in limbo, haunted by their histories and veering between possibilities. An African student in England longs for her desert home; a shy Argentinian travel agent agonises about joining her boyfriend in New York; a soldier is pursued by his past; a writer’s widow fends off the attentions of his predatory biographer. From story to story we walk through radically different worlds and journeys packed with hopes and ideals. Sharp, tender, and always arresting, these exquisitely written pieces crackle with luminous insights as characters struggle to find contentment - with their pasts, with one another, and with themselves.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这些故事讲述的是人们被困在一个充满诱惑、有时甚至是危险的世界里，在南方与北方、野心与传统、光明与黑暗之间摇摆。她笔下的人物要么准备离开，要么即将回归;他们常常陷入不确定的境地，被自己的历史所困扰，在各种可能性之间摇摆不定。一个在英国的非洲学生渴望她的沙漠家园;一个害羞的阿根廷旅行社为加入她在纽约的男友而苦恼;一个士兵被他的过去追赶;一个作家的遗孀避开了他的传记作家的注意。从一个故事到另一个故事，我们走过了完全不同的世界，走过了充满希望和理想的旅程。尖锐，温柔，总是引人注目，这些精致的作品裂纹与明亮的洞察力，因为人物挣扎着找到满足——对他们的过去，对彼此，对自己。（WYL）
Awards/获奖情况：“这些确信无疑、功成名就的故事来自一个世界，在这个世界里，未被承认的暗能量破坏并使我们光明、理性的自我理解变得空洞。带着激情和智慧，以及罕见的道德洞察力，埃里克•博埃默追溯了南方曲折历史在心灵上留下的伤疤。”——库切"These assured, accomplished stories are reports from a world in which unacknowledged dark energies undermine and render hollow our bright, rational self-understanding. With passion and intelligence, and rare moral insight, Elleke Boehmer traces the scars left on the psyche by the tortuous histories of the South." --J.M. Coetzee
About the Author/作者介绍： 埃里克•博埃默是五部小说的作者，包括《屏幕对天空》(大卫•海厄姆奖入围作品)，《血族》(桑勒姆奖入围作品)，《尼罗河宝贝》和《黑暗中的呐喊》(《星期日泰晤士报》入围作品)。她出生于南非，现居住在牛津大学，是牛津大学世界英语文学教授。她所著的《贝登堡男孩童子军》是一本畅销书，她广受好评的《纳尔逊•曼德拉传记》也被翻译成多种语言。她还出版了其他几本书，包括《女人的故事》、《帝国写作选集》、《后殖民主义诗学》和获得2015-16年度ESSE奖的《大英帝国的网络》。她写了一篇关于纳尔逊•曼德拉的简短介绍。Elleke Boehmer is the author of five novels including Screens against the Sky (shortlisted for the David Higham Prize), Bloodlines (shortlisted for the Sanlam Prize), Nile Baby, and The Shouting in the Dark (longlisted for the Sunday Times prize). Born in South Africa, she lives in Oxford where she is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford. Her edition of Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys was a bestseller, and her acclaimed biography of Nelson Mandela has been translated into several languages. She has published several other books including Stories of Women, the anthology Empire Writing, Postcolonial Poetics, and Indian Arrivals: Networks of British Empire which won the ESSE 2015-16 Prize. She wrote the OUP very Short Introduction to Nelson Mandela.
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