FINDING BEAUTY IN A BROKEN WORLD

Book ID/图书代码： 02330008B24252

English Summary/英文概要： In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several years to include a reconfiguration of family and community in her search for a deeper understanding of what it means to be human in an era of physical and spiritual fragmentation. Williams begins in Ravenna, Italy, where “jeweled ceilings became lavish tales” through the art of mosaic. She discovers that mosaic is not just an art form but a form of integration, and when she returns to the American Southwest, her physical and spiritual home, and observes a clan of prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, she apprehends an ecological mosaic created by a remarkable species in the sagebrush steppes of the Colorado Plateau. And, finally, Williams travels to a small village in Rwanda, where, along with fellow artists, she joins survivors of the 1994 genocide and builds a memorial literally from the rubble of war, an act that becomes a spark for social change and healing. A singular meditation on how the natural and human worlds both collide and connect in violence and beauty, this is a work of uncommon perceptions that dares to find intersections between arrogance and empathy, tumult and peace, constructing a narrative of hopeful acts by taking that which is broken and creating something whole.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 這是一本十分特殊的書。具有環境學家背景的作者，獨樹一格，以地球科學與自然生物學的眼光，審視人類所存在的、殘破的世界。從義大利的人類文化結晶鉅作，到盧安達的戰爭藝術，作者指出，世界正以馬賽克藝術般的手法，拼湊出萬事萬物原有的美麗面貌。即使一切正在瓦解中，仍有一股冥冥中的神祕力量在修復、補償、療癒我們受傷與失去的部份…是結合科學與人文的絕佳寫作。(TT)

Awards/获奖情况：The book,itself a skillful,nuanced mosaic(‘a conversation between what is broken…a conversation with light,with color,with form’)uses this ‘way of thinking about the world’ to convincingly’make the connection between racism and specism’ andsensitively argues for respect for life in all its myriad foems.”---Publishers Weekly

In her most far-reaching and profoundly clarifying work to date,Williams considers the complex beauty of brokenness and the redemptive art of creating wholeness from fragments in a triptych of explorations….Booklisti
"With hypnotic prose--reminiscent of John Berger in its poetry--Terry Tempest Williams inhabits the post-9/11 world wide awake, utterly open, completely feeling. Taking notes in shattered worlds as her own family breaks and reshapes into something surprising and completely beautiful, Williams presets us with an incredible achievement, a beautiful, terrible, wonderful, hopeful witness. The farthest thing from insanity I’ve read."---Alexandra Fuller, author of The Legend of Colton H. Bryant

"How a book could be this gentle and this heartbreaking simultaneously I do not know. But over a simple trajectory of mosaic-to-prarie-dog-to-comtemporary-genocide, Terry Tempest Williams leads us with methodical accuracy into the devastations and delights of now."---John D’Agata, author of Halls of Fame

Now she delivers Finding Beauty in a Broken World, an ambitious, even audacious, work.
Williams takes us from the breathtaking, Byzantine mosaics of Ravenna, Italy — a city she has spent time in — and uses them as a metaphor for two communities, a besieged prairie dog colony in Utah and a village in Rwanda, where she helped build a memorial to victims of a 1994 genocide that killed 1 million in that African country. ---William Porter,Sunday, Oct 05, 2008,Taipei Times

About the Author/作者介绍： Terry Tempest Williams is the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah. Her previous books include Leap; Red; and The Open Space of Democracy. Her writing appears frequently in journals and newspapers worldwide. She is the recipient of Lannan and Guggenheim fellowships in creative nonfiction. She divides her time between Castle Valley, Utah, and Wilson, Wyoming.
這位女學者今年五十三歲，是美國知名的自然主義者、作家與環保健將。她過去關注的焦點在美國西部沙漠生態、女性主義、健康醫療與摩門教文化的相關議題，經常在各大重要媒體發表獨到觀點的評論。

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