THE PLEASURE SEEKERS

Book ID/图书代码： 02000008B28955

English Summary/英文概要： It all started in August 1968 when Babo, with curly hair and jhill mill teeth, became the first member of the Patel family to leave Madras and fly on a plane all the way to London to further his education. His father should have known there would be trouble: on the morning of the departure he had his first and only dream, in which strange ghosts threw poison-tipped arrows and all his family was lost. But off Babo went, and now here he is, in a flat off the Finchley Road, untraditionally making love to a cream-skinned girl from Wales, Sian Jones, who he fell head over heels for as soon as he saw the twirl of red ribbon in her hair. Ba-ba-boom, ba-ba-boom, ba-ba-boom-boom-boom. Theirs is a mixed-up love in a topsy-turvy world, and their two families will never be the same again. Meet the Patel-Joneses: Babo, Sian, Mayuri and Bean, in their little house with orange and black gates next-door to the Punjab Women’s Association. As the twentieth century creaks and croaks its way along - somewhere out there Jim Morrison commits suicide; Charles and Diana get hitched; Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her own bodyguards; cable TV arrives in India - these four navigate their way through the uncharted territory of a ’hybrid’ family: the hustle and bustle of Babo’s relatives, the faraway phone-line crackle of Sian’s, the eternal wisdom and soft bosom of great-grandmother Ba, the perils of first love, lost innocence and old age, and the big question: what do you do with the space your loved ones leave behind? In this tender, lyrical and uplifting debut, Tishani Doshi, a prizewinning poet, effortlessly captures the quirks and calamities of one unusual clan in a story of identity, family, belonging and all-transcending love.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 醞釀的愛情是否經得起時間的考驗

年輕的巴博(Babo Patel)為了升學，從馬德拉斯(Madras)來到倫敦。他是家族裡第一個遠走他鄉的人，為了找到比家鄉更美好的生活，他希望自己能在異鄉闖出名堂。後來卻遇到美麗的紅髮女孩錫安(Sian Jones)，兩人幾乎是一見鍾情的彼此深受吸引。
錫安來到倫敦的目的跟巴博一樣，但是當巴博的父母知道兒子想跟一個「不知道從哪裡來的奇怪女孩」交往，馬上使出渾身解數百般阻撓兩人。為了愛情，他們不惜拋棄家鄉的一切，經歷刻骨銘心的愛戀，隨著邁入老年所要面對的人生階段，似乎過去一切傷心往事直撲他們而來…
Tishani Doshi只用了短短300餘頁，就道盡了一個大家族及其時代的喜怒哀樂及榮辱興衰。她以自己的家庭為藍本緩緩道出，讓原本沉重的家族、種族、性別議題轉換為充滿感情、溫馨又激勵人心的作品。(Chris)

Awards/获奖情况：LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE 2011

‘This is a captivating, delightful novel. ’ ---Salman Rushdie

‘Brimming with tender humour ... the novel dances its people across barriers of race and nation’--- INDEPENDENT

‘The Pleasure Seekers is beautifully written, engrossing and – a word i don’t often use when describing a good book – lovely. Emotionally successful families are rare in fiction; they are harder to capture than the disastrous ones. but tishani doshi carries it off brilliantly’ ---Roddy Doyle

Translation:
Croatia: Profil;
France: Buchet Chastell;
Italy: Feltrinelli;
Poland: Bertelsmann;
Serbia: Komera;
Spain: Random House;
US: Bloomsbury US;
Japanese Subagent: Tuttle

版權已售：義大利(Feltrinelli)、西班牙(Random House Mondadori)
入圍2011柑橘獎作品

Reviews
’Haunting, assured, delicately crafted wonderfully fresh and precise’---Ruth Padel 露芙．帕黛，《搖滾神話學：性、神祇、搖滾樂》

’Poised yet unpredictable streaks of magic, love and memory’---Mick Imlah 米克·伊姆拉，2008 年Forward Prize Best Collection得主

’Tishani Doshi’s poems have both heart and intelligence. They are rich in mysterious images and narratives both explicit and implied. You could read them a hundred times and still find something you hadn’t noticed before’---Louis de Bernieres 路易．德．貝尼雷，《柯雷利上尉的曼陀鈴》(Captain Corelli’s Mandolin)作者（日後翻拍成電影《戰地情人》）

"This is a captivating, delightful novel. I was totally engaged by Tishani Doshi’s people and by their world, and the language often rises – when speaking of the great matters, life, death, and above all love – to powerful metaphorical heights."---Salman Rushdie 薩爾曼‧魯西迪，後殖民小說教父，《午夜之子》(Midnight’s Children)的作者

About the Author/作者介绍： Tishani is a poet and dancer based in Madras, India. Her first collection of poetry Countries of the Body, won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2006.
Tishani是印度詩人兼舞蹈家，住在馬德拉斯(Madras)。她的第一部詩選集《Countries of the Body》在2006年甫出道就獲得英國Forward Prize for best first collection獎項。

Format:电子手稿

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