MEASURING TIME: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 03635005B11953

English Summary/英文概要： A thrilling, epic story from a major new international talent.
Mamo and LaMamo are twin brothers living in the small Nigerian village of Keti, where their domineering father controls their lives. With high hopes the twins attempt to flee from home, but only LaMamo escapes successfully and is able to live their dream of becoming a soldier who meets beautiful women. Mamo, the sickly, awkward twin, is doomed to remain in the village with his father. Gradually he comes out of his father’s shadow and gains local fame as a historian, and, using Plutarch’s Parallel Lives as his model, he embarks on the ambitious project of writing a "true" history of his people. But when the rains fail and famine rages, religious zealots incite the people to violence—and LaMamo returns to fight the enemy at home.
A novel of ardent loyalty, encroaching modernity, political desire, and personal liberation, Measuring Time is a heart-wrenching history of Nigeria, portrayed through the eyes of a single family.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Mamo 和LaMamo這對雙胞胎居住在奈及利亞的小村落，但他們從小長期受到父親嚴厲的管教。兩人漸漸不能忍受父親的虐待，而想辦法逃離這個村落。但唯一成功逃家的只有LaMamo，感情好的兄弟兩人於是從此分離。

LaMamo長大後如願以償成為一位勇敢的軍人，而活在父親陰影下的Mamo立志要當一位歷史學家。在長期處於動亂的非洲，鬧飢荒、政府的暴政，Mamo下定決心要將這一切完全記錄下來而讓全世界知道奈及利亞的災難，而政府卻開始派軍隊打壓這個村庄，其中的士兵正是LaMamo….

Awards/获奖情况：Long-listed for the IMPAC Prize

About the Author/作者介绍： Helon Habila is the internationally renowned author of Waiting for an Angel, which won both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Caine Prize for African Writing. He lives in the United Kingdom.

Helon Habila非洲作家，早期作品《Waiting for an Angel》獲得各界肯定，他是不列顛國協作家最佳書籍獎(Commonwealth Writers Prize)和「非洲布克獎」之稱的小說肯恩獎（Caine Prize）得主。

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