OUR LADY OF ALICE BHATTI: A CASE OF EXPLODING MANGOES

Book ID/图书代码： 00200011B48570

English Summary/英文概要： The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments are looking for a miracle, and Alice Bhatti is looking for a job. The story begins with Alice’s interview for the position of junior nurse, grade 4. Alice is no ordinary applicant. It is only a few weeks since her release from Borstal. She has returned to her childhood home in the French Colony, where her father continues his work as chief janitor and part-time healer. It seems she has inherited his gift. With the implementation of the working nurse’s manual, a bit of inspired improvisation and some help from Lord Yassoo Alice brings succour to the thousands of patients littering the hospital’s corridors and concrete courtyards – provoking the jealousies of her fellow nurses, and firing the imaginations of the male staff in the process. Not least young Noor, a former cellmate, now notary at the hospital; nor Teddy Bunt, amateur bodybuilder and apprentice to the nefarious ‘Gentleman Squad’ of the Karachi police. But Alice’s troubles are far from over. A Christian in an Islamic world, caught in the red tape of hospital bureaucracy and torn between her duty to her patients, to her admirers and to her father, Alice finds that her new life is built on foundations as unstable as those of her home. When a suspect goes missing on his watch, Teddy plunges them both into a danger that perhaps not even a miracle can save them from. But then again, Alice Bhatti is no ordinary nurse... Filled with wit, colour and pathos, OUR LADY OF ALICE BHATTI is a glorious story of second chances, thwarted ambitions and love in unlikely places, set in the febrile streets of downtown Karachi. It is the remarkable new novel from the author of A Case of Exploding Mangoes, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2009, and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book Award.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如果说圣心医院里的病患们期待奇迹发生，那么爱丽丝•巴蒂则是等待工作机会降临。故事的发生在爱丽丝大四那年，爱丽丝正准备一场新人护士的面试，然而爱丽丝并不是一名普通的申请人，她刚刚被从少年犯感化院里释放出来。在此之前，她回了一趟老家，她的父亲是一名守门人，闲暇时也会兼职医疗者，从这点看，爱丽丝显然继承了父亲的天份。爱丽丝就这样开始了她的护士生涯，时而有一些急性小插曲，时而获得一些亚苏的帮助，爱丽丝救助了成千上万名病患，医院的走廊甚至庭院都充斥着前来找她看病的病患---而这，理所当然的招来了其他护士的嫉妒，同时也让医院里的男同事们对她想入非非。但有一些却显然没有包邮同样的想法，像是年轻的诺尔，曾坐过牢，现在是医院里的公证员，以及泰迪•邦特，业余健身员，同时也是邪恶的警局小队的跟班，他们显然也很不喜欢爱丽丝。然而爱丽丝的麻烦还远不止这些，一名伊斯兰世界的基督徒破坏了她的职责，更是破坏了她同病患，崇拜者甚至父亲的关系。爱丽丝觉得她的新生活摇摇欲坠，随时可能坍塌。当一名嫌疑犯逃脱，泰迪是大家都陷入了危险，除非奇迹发生，否则无人能够幸免。再一次，爱丽丝•巴蒂向我们证实了她可不是一名普通的护士。。。。。。《我们的爱丽丝•巴蒂》充满了智慧与哀婉的色彩，这是一个关于人生的第二次机会，关于壮志未酬，关于我们所想象不到的爱的故事，在热闹的卡拉奇，我们一同见证这一故事的上演。本书是《爆炸的芒果》作者的新作，前者曾入围09年度书奖，并曾荣获英联邦作家优秀处女作奖。(兼职翻译-DC)

Awards/获奖情况：Been sold in the following territories:
UK: Cape (Editor Dan Franklin)
US: Knopf (Editor Sonny Mehta)
Canada: Bond Street (Editor Kristin Cochrane)
France: Les Deux Terres
Germany: A1 Verlag
Holland: Contact
India: Random House
Italy: Bompiani
英国版将于10月6日发行，但可喜可贺的是在印度，本书名列畅销书排行榜第三位！

About the Author/作者介绍： 默罕默德•哈尼夫，生于巴基斯坦，奥卡拉，1965，毕业于巴基斯坦空军学院，但随后却放弃飞行员职业，转而从事新闻记者。他为舞台和bbc广播创作戏剧，其电影《长夜》已在全世界电影节上映。首部小说《爆炸的芒果》一经问世便赢得2008年英联邦作家优秀处女作奖。

Mohammed Hanif was born in Okara, Pakistan, in 1965. He graduated from Pakistan Air Force Academy as Pilot Officer, but subsequently left to pursue a career in journalism. He has written plays for the stage and BBC radio, and his film The Long Night has been shown at film festivals around the world. His first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel in 2008.

Format:电子手稿

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