THE CLOUD MESSENGER

Book ID/图书代码： 11908510B36419

English Summary/英文概要： In his early teens, Mehran moves from Karachi, the rainless place of his childhood to London, the rainy city his father has always loved. At the age of twenty-three, he leaves his job in a bank to return to university, where he meets the charismatic Riccarda - nearly ten years older than him, vivacious and enigmatic. Their relationship, which shades from friendship into love, will last a lifetime. In his thirties, when life doesn’t quite go according to plan, Mehran becomes involved with Marvi, passionate, displaced and damaged, and has to choose between the demands of a relationship and the solitude that his burgeoning poetic imagination demands.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 浪漫卻又帶著淡淡憂鬱，在藍色細雨低喃著人生的旅程

如同梵文和波斯語的優美
以極富情感，細膩文雅的感性語句
Aamer Hussein記錄為詩著迷的故事主角Mehran
浪漫卻又帶著淡淡憂鬱，在藍色細雨低喃著人生的旅程
《雲中的信差》

Mehran在乾燥無雨的喀拉蚩市出生，長大後卻到又濕又冷的倫敦求發展。在23歲的時，他辭去銀行的工作，回到大學唸書。他專攻詩學，並深深為詩文的優美與精巧所感動。在此時，Mehran愛上了大他10歲，極富魅力又神祕的有夫之婦Riccarda。他們從朋友變情人，Riccarda成為他一輩子的紅粉知己。在他30歲的時候，人生中的每件事情似乎都發展的不如他的預期，為了彌補心裡的失落，他和熱情又危險的Marvi展開新的戀情。但是，他慢慢發現自己詩意的想像力如脫韁野馬到處奔馳，他被這股力量推動，無法一直待在多雨的倫敦，需要到處旅行，而且變的需要很多獨處的時間。Mehran必須得面對人生中的課題：要維持好和別人的關係，又要照顧到自己獨處的需求…。(Chris)

Awards/获奖情况：擔任不列顛國協作家獎、都柏林文學獎的文學評審級大師作家 Aamer Hussein！

Review
’We are lucky to have Hussein among us, telling stories as few can, with his particular mixture of deep love, understanding and sadness.’---Amit Chaudhuri印度作家阿米特‧喬杜里，2009年曼布克獎(the Man Booker International Prize)評審

Its approach is intellectual, its prose unabashedly literary ... Sophisticated, cosmopolitan and seductive."---Times Literary Supplement《泰晤士報文學增刊》

’Subtle, evocative, skilled’---Joseph Olshan

’Elegantly melancholy, yet sharp-eyed too. I was reminded simultaneously of the early 19th-century French -- and of poetic worlds I didn’t know at all .A shower of pleasures’---Julia O’Faolain

About the Author/作者介绍： Aamer Hussein was born in Karachi in 1955 and moved to London in his teens. He is the author of Insomnia, and the editor of Kahani. He reviews regularly for the Independent, lectures at the University of Southampton and the Institute of English Studies, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
His novella Another Gulmohar Tree was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Europe and South Asia 2010. He has served on the jury of the 2002 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the 2007 Commonwealth Writers Prize and the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Aamer Hussein，少年時移居倫敦，作品有《This Other Salt》、《Turquoise》和《Insomnia》等。他的最新作品《Another Gulmohar Tree》入圍2010不列顛國協作家獎(the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Europe and South Asia)的決選。他曾擔任2002英國獨立報最佳外國小說獎(Independent Foreign Fiction Prize)、2007不列顛國協作家獎(Commonwealth Writers Prize)、2008國際都柏林文學獎(International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award)的評審。
Aamer同時也是《Kahani》的主编、倫敦大學南安普頓學院(the University of Southampton)和英語研究學院(the Institute of English Studies (University of London))的講師，也是皇家文學社團(the Royal Society of Literature)的成員。他也為《獨立報》(the Independent)撰寫評論文章。

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