A LADY CYCLIST’S GUIDE TO KASHGAR
Book ID/图书代码： 02000011B44095
English Summary/英文概要： Frieda’s on-off boyfriend insists that she is a ‘free spirit’ but the hours spent in airport lounges and hotels are making her increasingly lonely and she has begun to crave a sense of belonging somewhere, to be a part of the same world other people seem to so easily inhabit. Abandoned by her mother as a child and estranged from her father, Frieda’s idea of family is incomplete at best so when she opens a letter stating that she is the next of kin to an Eileen Guy, a woman she has never heard of, the urge to discover where she might really belong is irresistible.
Interlaced with Frieda’s story is the 1923 diary of a missionary, Evangeline English, who pretends to have a religious calling in order to escape the claustrophobia of bourgeois English life. Heading for Kashgar on the Silk Road which, like London, is a city of traders with layers of cultures lain over each other like rugs - Uighur, Turkeman, Chinese, Muslim, Russian, Tibetan - Eva and the Mission attempt to establish an outpost in the remote Gobi desert, an area of simmering revolt with the Muslim community agitating against encroaching Chinese cultural oppression. But on their arrival, a young local girl dies giving birth to a baby girl and the Mission is blamed. Eva is as trapped in Kashgar as she was in England but now her life and the lives of everyone in the Mission, including the baby, is in danger as the revolt threatens to explode.
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide To Kashgar explores the fault lines that appear when the traditions from different parts of an increasingly globalised world crash into each other. Beautifully written and with stunning visual images, the novel pieces together each woman’s past to show the hidden link between them, how they each challenge and negotiate the restrictions of their societies as each makes their hard won way towards home, a sense of peace and an understanding their place in the world.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 漂泊如浮萍的女人，對平凡的家庭生活產生憧憬，渴望找到心中的所屬之地
另一位逃離階級牢籠的女教士，為了追尋自由，卻又面臨傳統束縛的挑戰
超越時空的兩條故事，織出衝破藩籬 勇於尋找自我的勇敢女性寓言 『家』對於她們來說，只是一個陌生的名詞
弗莉妲在孩提時代被母親拋棄，就連父親也與她漸漸疏遠，因此對於「家庭」一詞相當陌生。長大後，她過著有如空中飛人的日子，機場的候機室和旅館彷彿就是她的家，但這樣如浮萍般的生活只讓她越來越覺得寂寞…。
弗莉妲開始渴望能屬於某個群體，開始對家庭產生憧憬。有一天她接到一封信，信中一個叫做愛琳的人自稱是她的親戚，但弗莉妲從沒聽過這個人。這封信點燃她心底對家庭的渴望，她決定找出誰是愛琳與她這個人的身份與一切！
另一條故事主軸述說一位傳教士在1923年記錄的日記。傳教士伊文(Evangeline English)為了逃離英國中產階級的束縛而跑去當傳教士。她跟隨教會到中國新疆的喀什去傳教，教會想在戈壁沙漠中建立傳教的據點，但當他們到達戈壁時，當地一個年輕女孩在生小孩的過程中死去，當地居民將過錯推到伊文和教會的身上。動亂一觸即發，伊文和教會同袍的生命也面臨威脅！他們被困在戈壁進退不得…。
在兩條故事交織穿梭之中，兩位女主角各自都有一段悲傷往事，看似互不相關，但在故事情節的拼湊之下，隱約的逐漸牽連出兩人之間的彼此關係。她們試圖掙脫社會束縛，尋找自己在社會上的定位，過程中充滿挑戰和妥協，最終她們如何努力追尋心靈的寧靜，找到她們心中所屬的地方….。(Chris)
Awards/获奖情况：Bloomsbury今年倫敦書展重頭大書
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將在2012夏季於美國、德國、澳洲將同步出版
被譽為英國文壇最具得獎潛力的新人作家 Suzanne Joinson
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Reviews
‘Oh I love this book! I was beguiled and enchanted — by those indomitable women with their bicycles and bibles and cigarettes, and Frieda, too, with her glasses and her owl and her touching relationship with Tayeb. It is done with the lightest of touches, but underneath there is so much, about identity and ancestry and how the unlikeliest of things get passed through generations. This is a rare thing: a book I would give to everyone to read, my friends and family and people I hardly know. We will have such a wonderful time publishing it: it is a beautiful literary novel with real commercial potential, something we delight in (from The Kite Runner to The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society), something we really know how to do’---Alexandra Pringle, Group Editor-in-Chief, Bloomsbury (亞麗珊卓．普林戈，Bloomsbury總編輯)
‘In Suzy Joinson’s extraordinary novel, we have found the perfect book and the perfect author for Bloomsbury. In this beautifully written and utterly captivating novel, with its lady cyclist, its owl, its paintings and its characters who are all searching and fleeing and discovering - and connected to each other in ways that they do not, at first understand - Suzy explores ideas of history and religion, inheritance and belonging, with delicacy and empathy. This is a book with prize-winning potential and a serious intent that also happens to be delightful, witty, deeply moving and unputdowneable. We are thrilled to be publishing it.’---Helen Garnons-Williams, Commissioning Editor, Bloomsbury
About the Author/作者介绍： An enormously gifted literary writer, Suzanne Joinson works in the literature department of the British Council specialising in the Middle East, North Africa and China. She travels widely in those regions and has a strong interest in the Arabic-speaking world, particularly Palestine and Egypt. In 2007 she won the New Writing Ventures award for Creative Non-Fiction for ‘Leila Ahmed’ and has an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths University (Distinction). She sits on the advisory committee for the Palestinian Writers Workshop, a collective that runs creative writing workshops in Palestine and is involved in a grass-roots writer development project with writers from Syria, Yemen and Palestine. In 2009, she received an Arts Council research grant to visit Kashgar to research A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar. She is writer-in-residence at Shoreham Airport (Arts Council funded), working on a series of literature events at the airport and researching new novel, A Matter of Mathematics.
Suzanne Joinson被譽為是位天賦異稟的文學作家，在英國文化協會的文學部門工作，專攻中東、北非和中國文學。她常到這些地方旅行，對阿拉伯語世界非常感興趣，特別是巴勒斯坦和埃及。
2007年她贏得New Writing Ventures award，獲得倫敦大學金史密斯學院(Goldsmiths University (Distinction))的文學碩士學位。她同時也是巴勒斯坦作家工作坊(Palestinian Writers Workshop)的顧問委員會成員之一，這個工作坊以培養當地作家為宗旨，敘利亞、葉門和巴勒斯坦都有作家參加。她是英國Shoreham機場的常駐作家，她一邊準備在機場舉辦的一系列文學活動，一邊為她的新小說《A Matter of Mathematics》取材。為了撰寫本書，她在2009年在英國藝術協會(Arts Council)的協助下到喀什取材。
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