AMERICAN TABOO: A MURDER IN THE PEACE CORPS
Book ID/图书代码： 12800704B04600
English Summary/英文概要： In 1975, thirty-three Peace Corps volunteers landed in the island nation of Tonga. It was an exotic place -- men wearing grass skirts, coconut-thatched huts, pigs wandering the crushed-coral streets -- governed by strange and exacting rules of conduct. The idealistic young Americans called it never-never land, as if it existed in a world apart from the one they knew and the things that happened there would be undone when they went home.
Among them was a beautiful twenty-three-year-old woman who, like so many volunteers before her, was in search of adventure. Sensuous and free-spirited, Deborah Gardner would become an object of desire, even obsession, in the small expatriate community. On the night of October 14, 1976, she was found dying inside her hut, stabbed twenty-two times.
Hours later, another volunteer turned himself in to the Tongan police, and many of the other Americans were sure he had committed the crime. But with the aid of the State Department, he returned to New York a free man, flown home at the Peace Corps’s expense. Deb Gardner’s death and the outlandish aftermath took on legendary proportions in Tonga; in the United States, government officials made sure the story was suppressed.
Now Philip Weiss unravels the truth about what happened in Tonga more than a quarter century ago. With bravura reporting and vivid, novelistic prose, Weiss transforms a Polynesian legend into a singular artifact of American history and a profoundly moving human story.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1975年12月，31个和平队志愿者来到了南太平洋上的汤加王国。23岁的黛博拉-加德纳是来自华盛顿州的科学教师，她报名参加和平队是为了寻求冒险和生活的意义。由于她长得漂亮，思想又开放，不久就成为这支和平队里人们追求的目标。1976年10月14日夜里，黛博拉在她的小屋里死去，身上被扎了22刀。另一个和平队员试图自杀，被送到警察局。可是经过可疑的审判程序和翻供，疑犯逃脱了惩罚。这件事在汤加闹得沸沸扬扬，可在美国几乎无人知道。如今，作者将它公之于众。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Philip Weiss has been a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor to Esquire, Harper’s Magazine, and the New York Observer. He lives in upstate New York.
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