THE DESCARTES HIGHLANDS
Book ID/图书代码： 12411011B44835
English Summary/英文概要： "Like Walt Whitman, Gamalinda contains multitudes—but with a better sense of humor."—The Nation
"Gamalinda’s wistful, fierce, enthralled voice seems to speak the true language, the sotto voce language we can’t hear in our world of binary and mutually destructive opposites."—D. Nurkse, poet laureate of Brooklyn, New York
Two men, each unaware of the other, share a common family secret: they were sold for adoption by their American father shortly after their birth in the Philippines. Celebrated Filipino writer Eric Gamalinda’s international debut is a contemporary novel of ideas that combines mystery, film noir, and existential philosophy.
Highly intricate and written in a style reminiscent of the maverick narrative techniques of such filmmakers as Andrei Tarkovsky and Béla Tarr, and with some of the philosophical underpinnings of Michel Houellebecq or Javier Marías, The Descartes Highlands is named after the region of the moon where Apollo 16 landed in the same year these men were born.
The Descartes Highlands was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize for unpublished works.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “就像沃尔特•惠特曼一样，伽玛凌达也颇具幽默感，但他的幽默感似乎更胜一筹。”——《国家报》
“伽玛凌达的语言怅惘，激烈，如痴如醉。在这个复杂的世界里我们很少听到这样的声音。”——奈科斯，纽约桂冠诗人
两个并不知道彼此存在的男人却背负着同一个家族秘密：他们在菲律宾出生不久之后就被自己的美国爸爸卖了。著名菲律宾作家艾瑞克•伽玛凌达的首部国际作品充满了神秘，黑色元素和存在主义哲学。
艾瑞克复杂的写作风格令人想起了电影制片人安德烈•塔可夫斯基和贝拉•塔尔的叙事技巧，又有点米歇尔•维勒贝克或哈维尔•马里亚斯的哲学基础思想。《笛卡尔高地》的小说名来源是阿波罗登月的区域名称。
《笛卡尔高地》入围了2009年亚洲文学奖未出版优秀作品。（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：“伽玛凌达的角色非常丰满，入目三分。他们看似毫无联系，内心却充满同样的邪恶。他们孤独，无法拥有爱，拥有真诚的关系。伽玛凌达将故事娓娓道来，最后我们觉得，这个世界似乎毫无希望了。”——迭戈•马拉尼，《最后的维雅兹人》作者
"Gamalinda’s characters are both struck by the curse and graced by the blessing of their cosmopolitan condition. The story wraps together distant places, seemingly different from one another but all contaminated by the same evil: human solitude and our inability to engage in love and genuine relationships. Gamalinda would not say it out loud, but it seems there is hope for this world after all."—Diego Marani, author of The Last of the Vostyachs
About the Author/作者介绍： 艾瑞克•伽玛凌达曾在菲律宾出版过两本故事集，三本诗集，四部小说，其中包括《我悲伤的共和国》，获得了1998年菲律宾百年奖；《笛卡尔高地》，他的第一部英语作品，入围了亚洲作家奖。艾瑞克在马尼拉出生长大，起初，艾瑞克是位撰稿人，从政治到摇滚乐，涉及的领域很广。艾瑞克现居于纽约，在哥伦比亚大学民族种族学中心授课。Eric Gamalinda has previously published, in the Philippines, two collections of stories, three poetry collections, and four novels, including My Sad Republic, winner of the Philippine Centennial Prize in 1998. The Descartes Highlands, his American debut, was a finalist for the Man Asian Prize. Born and raised in Manila, where he worked as a journalist covering everything from politics to rock music, he currently lives in New York City and teaches at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.
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