PETALS OF BLOOD: A CHILDHOOD MEMOIR

Book ID/图书代码： 12844010B39376

English Summary/英文概要： "The definitive African book of the twentieth century" ---Moses Isegawa

The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya. Yet as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time. First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned without charges by the Kenyan government. His incarceration was so shocking that newspapers around the world called attention to the case, and protests were raised by human-rights groups, scholars, and writers, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Donald Barthelme, Harold Pinter, and Margaret Drabble.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《血色花瓣》，揭秘一個你未曾知道的、真實的第三世界

NGUGI WA HIONG’O,包攬東非小說獎、聯合國教科文組織一等獎、荷花文學獎、保羅羅伯遜藝術卓越獎等十多個獎項，曾任教于奈洛比大學和耶魯大學，于英國牛津大學和新西蘭的奧克蘭大學成功舉辦講座，2003年當選為美國藝術與文學學院名譽委員

PETALS OF BLOOD深度揭示社會不公，反映整個民族希望的破滅和挫敗所帶給民眾的极度絕望，出版後一度引起全球範圍內的廣泛關注，而作者也因此書入獄。

Petals of Blood從表面上看似乎是一個發生在剛剛解放的肯雅內陸，情節脈絡錯綜複雜的懸疑謀殺案，但隨著千頭萬緒交織纏繞的謎團緩緩展開，呈現在大家面前的是一個失意、挫敗、飽經滄桑的第三世界以及一次次的被國家領導人辜負之後這個世界所有的期待理想所幻化為的泡影。
小說中有四位主人公Munira, Abdulla, Wanja, and Karega，反叛運動使得他們的生命有了千絲萬縷的聯繫。1977年此批判社會不公的小說一經問世，就像驚天霹雷轟動了整個世界，而作者也因此書在並未經過肯雅政府的受理情況下卻被監禁。這一駭人聽聞的消息傳出後，立即在全球範圍內引起強烈反響，並受到人權組織、學者作家們的極力指責和抗議。(Claire)

Awards/获奖情况：A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair... a bombshell.---The Weekly Review, Kenya

Ambitious, caustic, and impassioned.---The New Yorker

About the Author/作者介绍： Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in Limuru, Kenya, in 1938. One of the leading African writers and scholars at work today, he is the author of many novels, short stories, essays, a memoir, and several plays, and recipient of numerous high honors. Currently he is Distinguished Professor in the School of Humanities and director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine.
Moses Isegawa was born in Uganda and is the author of the novels Abyssinian Chronicles and Snakepit.
NGUGI WA HIONG’O出生於肯雅的利穆魯，非洲頂級的作家和學者，作品包括短篇故事，散文隨筆，劇本，還包攬眾多獎項。現任加州大學人文學院教授級和國家交流中心寫作翻譯部主任。Moses Isegawa出身於烏干達，著有小說Abyssinian Chronicles 和 Snakepit。

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