BEAUTY

Book ID/图书代码： 03540010B42768

English Summary/英文概要： Beauty - in both name and appearance - is a twenty-year-old Bangladeshi, back in England having shocked her family by fleeing an abusive arranged marriage. Now she is forced onto the jobseekers’ treadmill.
Her fractious encounters with officialdom, fellow claimants, strangers and passers-by in the city streets, exacerbated by the restrictions (and comfort) of her language and culture, place her at the mercy of such unlikely helpers as Mark, a friendly, dog-owning ex-offender, and Peter, the middle-class underachiever on the rebound from a bitter relationship.
Such ’white’ influences conflict with the pressure to toe the family religious line, enforced by her older brother, but enable Beauty to understand better how free will and parental care affect her personal destiny in fragmented inner-city England today.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 楚楚--她的名字一如她的容貌般楚楚动人，楚楚是一位芳龄二十的孟加拉女子，为了反抗父母之命、媒妁之言的包办婚姻而逃往他乡，而此举也使她陷入了不得不为生计而疲于奔命的生活。

由于不同的语言和地域文化，在异国他乡的街道上与官员、陌生人以及路人之间的那些莫名其妙的遭遇，经常会令这位楚楚可怜的女子束手无策，同时也引来了一些同情，只是这样的同情来自于似乎并不像是好人的前罪犯Mark以及苦不堪言的中产阶级Peter。这些接触让这位孟加拉女子渐渐开始抵触来自家庭的传统约束，来自兄长的压迫，同样也让她更深刻得明白了这些对于她命运的影响。(兼职翻译-FSF)

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