THE REGISTRAR’S MANUAL FOR DETECTING FORCED MARRIAGES
Book ID/图书代码： 12290010B40015
English Summary/英文概要： Selim’s first view of Europe is a vast, thick carpet of digested pasta. Swimming through sewage towards traffickers on the Italian shore, he parts Europe’s soft defences with his bony chest before collapsing on the sand. Waiting for him is a truck, officially loaded with crates of tomatoes: the sunny taste of Puglia. Unofficially, secretly, illegally, the truck is loaded with Selim and his fellow refugees: the sunny taste of Kurdistan.
Selim is unloaded in Germany, where this unlikely hero must plead his case for a bright new life in Europe, and political asylum. Examined by dentists and doctors, he’s declared to be about thirteen and is assigned a date of birth. The clock starts ticking. Selim has until his eighteenth ’birthday’ to find a way to get permanent residency status, or face deportation and imprisonment, torture or death back in Turkey.
Fifteen years later, in a town hall in Paris, a Registrar receives both an unsettling visitor in her office, and an unsettling book in the post. The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages only fuels her suspicions surrounding an impending Kurdish wedding. Unsure how to intervene, her focus keeps drifting to one person alone: Selim.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 对于Selim来说，欧洲给他的第一印象如同一块又大又厚的面团。他游过污浊的海洋抵达意大利海岸，拖着柴骨嶙峋的身躯冲过欧洲软弱的防线。等待他的是一辆装满西红柿的卡车，而事实上，它用来非法运送Selim和其他流亡者。
Selim被送到了德国，这里是他的政治避难所，为了重获自由，他决定为自己翻案。在经过牙医和医生的鉴定后，他成为了一个13岁的人，命运的指针开始悄然走动。Selim要等到18岁方可获得永久居住权，或者，他将被驱逐出境并囚于土耳其，遭到虐待甚至死亡。
15年后，在巴黎的市政厅里，登记员迎来了一名奇怪的男子以及一本可疑的书。根据非法婚姻手册里的内容，登记员对这场即将进行的库尔德斯坦婚礼产生了怀疑。不知道如何调查此事的她无从下手，只能将注意力放在一个人身上：Selim。(兼职翻译-LN) & Ruby
Awards/获奖情况：The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages by Sophie Hardach
When Selim, a Kurdish refugee, lands up in a small town in Germany, he believes he has finally found a safe haven – but as his 18th birthday approaches and his residency permit remains elusive, there seems to be only one way to avoid deportation. Touching on important contemporary themes of identity, immigration, terrorism and marriage, the book is also the intimate story of two young people, a German girl and a Kurdish boy, who despite their best intentions, discover that a marriage of convenience is anything but…
“‘Original.’ It’s the one word that seems to crop up time and again from early readers describing The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages. Just when you think you know where the story is taking you, it takes you somewhere else instead” – Jessica Leeke, Fiction Editor, Simon & Schuster
About the Author/作者介绍： Sophie Hardach于1979年出生，她在德国度过了自己的童年，并在爱丁堡大学和新加坡国立大学学习经济学和政治科学。毕业后，她在伦敦、米兰、东京和巴黎的路透社新闻办事处做记者。目前她居住在巴黎。 Sophie Hardach was born in 1979 and grew up in Germany. She studied economics and political science at Edinburgh University and the National University of Singapore. After graduating, she worked as a correspondent for Reuters news agency in London, Milan, Tokyo and Paris, where she now lives.
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