TALES OF FREEDOM

Book ID/图书代码： 12844010B39043

English Summary/英文概要： As one of Britain’s foremost poets, Ben Okri is rightly acclaimed for his use of language. And as a Booker Prize winning novelist, this skill was shown to particular effect in both Starbook (his most recent work) and in The Famished Road. In Tales of Freedom he brings both poetry and story together in a fascinating new form, using writing and image pared down to their essentials, where haiku and story meet. Thus we discover Pinprop, the slave to an old couple lost in a clearing, who holds the keys to the universe in his quirky hands. Then there is the beautifully dressed black Russian on the train, helping to film a new version of ’Eugene Onegin’. Later, in the chaos of the aftermath of war, orphaned children paint mysterious shapes of bulls, birds, hybrid creatures, and we wonder if grief has unhinged them into genius...And who is that woman, who hardly speaks, who presses a tiny flower into the palm of the young boy on the bus, and then leaves his life forever? Tales of Freedom offers a haunting necklace of images which flash and sparkle as the light shines on them. Quick and stimulating to read, but slowly burning in the memory, they offer a different, more transcendent way of looking at our extreme, gritty world - and show the wealth of freedom that’s available beyond the confines of our usual perceptions.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作为英国最著名的诗人之一，本•欧克里凭借他运用语言的能力受到好评。而作为一个布克奖得主的小说家，这项语言技能在他的两本书——《星书》(其最新作品)和《饿鬼道》中体现地淋漓尽致。在《自由传奇》中，他将诗歌和故事体结合成一种新的写作形式，采用写作和图像最本质的精髓满足俳句和故事需要。就因为这样，我们发现了Pinprop，在一次清扫中一对老夫妇丢失的奴隶，他神奇的双手握有通往宇宙的钥匙。然后就有了火车上穿着漂亮黑色衣服的俄国人，在其帮助下演绎了新版“叶甫盖尼•奥涅金”。然后，在战后混乱中成为孤儿的孩子画出神秘的牛、鸟类以及杂交动物的图案，让我们不得不怀疑是不是过度伤痛将他们变成了天才。。。谁也不知道那个女人是谁，就这样在公车上在小男孩的手心里按下一朵小花，然后转身离开留下他独自生活下去。《自由传奇》好似闪电划过闪闪发亮的项链，发展紧凑、引人入胜，令人难忘，给出了一个与众不同更透彻的的方式观察我们这个极度坚固的世界，向读者展示一个超越我们传统观念束缚的自由的财富。(JDM)

Awards/获奖情况：“《自由传奇》传达无法言表的喜悦。”——《电报》
“精雕细琢的文字又不失幽默，这些短小的故事简单精致，文字内容引用跨度广泛，从20世纪经典文学追溯到口口相传的故事，或许非常罕见，所表达的关于爱的想法是如此简单朴实。”——《格拉斯哥先驱报》
“阅读真正的诗歌和见解的时刻。”——《卫报》

About the Author/作者介绍： 本•欧克里出版了8本小说，包括《饿鬼道》、《星书》和诗歌集、短篇小说集和散文集。他的作品已被翻译超过20种语言。他是英国皇家文学学会的院士，被授予英帝国勋章以及众多国际奖项，包括英联邦非洲作家奖、阿迦汗科幻小说奖和基安蒂•鲁菲诺-安蒂科•菲托国际大奖。他是国际笔会英语中心副主席并被世界经济论坛授予水晶大奖。他出生在尼日利亚，现居住在伦敦。

Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including The Famished Road and Starbook, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He was born in Nigeria and lives in London.

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