A TEASPOON OF EARTH AND SEA
Book ID/图书代码： 00500010B35515
English Summary/英文概要： A TEASPOON OF EARTH AND SEA uses strong, colorful characters, a unique narrative voice, and rural eastern storytelling techniques with western-style prose to convey a sense of mystery and a compelling message about identity and being the mistress of one’s own fate while living and battling within the fantasy of our other "selves". The bittersweet ending leaves the reader wondering if it matters at all where life takes us or why. Maybe the soul is unchanging and—as the old saying goes—life is written in the veins.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一個失去雙胞胎妹妹的女人如何由光明走向黑暗，再由黑暗走向光明?
一本讓鐵石心腸的人也都潸然淚下的動人故事!!
一對血脈相連的雙胞胎姊妹被迫分離，因為他們父母的選擇，讓她們踏上截然不同的生命旅程。
11歲的Saba與Mahtab，為了種種原因，兩人從小就必須一起使用同一張身份證。除了親近的人，外面很少有人知道她們是一對雙胞胎。
隨著多變的世局，她們的父母決定秘密將她們分離，Saba必須留在故鄉，而Mahtab與母親上了飛機到美國展開新生活。而不解世事的Saba，不懂為什麼她必須和親密的妹妹分開，而至此他的父親與祖母也總是跟她說，Mahtab早因為意外而死亡，要她趁早忘記過去。而心靈相通的兩姊妹，對彼此不捨的牽絆，要如何追尋彼此的存在，把握每分每秒勇敢活下去…(CL)
Awards/获奖情况：2011年 秋季感人推薦
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"Pure magic: lyrical, captivating, funny, and heartbreaking. Entering the world of the intriguing Saba Hafezi and her friends in a seaside village in northern Iran, I lost my heart.” —Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Translation
“Captivating. It reminds us how storytelling can save our lives. A brilliant debut.”—Michelle Huneven, author of Blame
"Lyrical evocation of a vanishing Iran… This ambitious novel set in northern Iran in the decade after the 1979 revolution contains not a teaspoon but a ton of history, imagination, and longing."
Saba Hafezi, 11, who lives in postrevolution Iran, has long held onto the belief that her twin sister, Mahtab, and her mother have immigrated to the United States, even though everyone around her tells her that Mahtab is dead and her mother imprisoned or worse. Fueled by illegally obtained Western literature and tapes of American movies, television, and music, Saba weaves stories about Mahtab’s imagined life in America, which parallel Saba’s life events despite the radically different choices and freedoms available to each girl. As she matures with her two best friends, Reza and Ponneh, an uneasy triangle emerges. -VERDICT Nayeri’s highly accomplished debut is a rich, multilayered reading experience. Structurally complex, the overriding theme is storytelling in all its forms, and the fine line between truth and lies. Each one of the large cast of characters is fully realized and sympathetic. Saba is a captivating heroine whose tragedies and triumphs will carry readers on a long but engrossing ride. Highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, 8/9/12.]—Christine DeZelar-Tiedman, Univ. of Minnesota Libs.
About the Author/作者介绍： Dina N. Viergutz was born to a controversial family of doctors and poets in Iran in 1979 and lived and traveled there throughout the Iran-Iraq war. Having escaped the country on the day of her mother’s intended execution, Dina spent some years in Europe before moving to the United States. She speaks three languages and recently became a citizen of France (dual with U.S.), and has spent the last three years living in Paris and Amsterdam with her husband where she researched and wrote A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea. She is a graduate of Princeton and holds two masters degrees from Harvard. She has done an array of work, including leading strategic projects for Saks Fifth Avenue and McKinsey in New York City. As a Zuckerman Fellow at Harvard, she has discussed public policy with world leaders, and as a Teaching Fellow and keynote speaker (also at Harvard) she has given speeches to audiences of hundreds before she turned thirty.
Dina N. Viergutz以通俗的文字手法敘述整篇故事，雖然在國際文壇名不見經傳，美國與義大利的出版商卻在看過Dina的故事之後，立即簽下她的首部代表作。Dina的家族中盡是人才輩出的醫師與詩人，但在伊朗卻是一個在當地備受爭議的家庭。飽受戰爭之苦的她之後至歐洲及美國，並學會三種語言，畢業於普林斯頓及哈佛大學，取得雙碩士學位。在三十歲之前，因她所學習的專業公共政策知識，曾發表多場演說，也曾在國際會議中與世界各國領袖研討相關政策。
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