DESERT BLOOD: THE JUAREZ MURDERS
Book ID/图书代码： 00174011B49741
English Summary/英文概要： It’s the summer of 1998 and for five years, over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the Chihuahua desert outside of Juárez, México, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants on both sides of the border. El Paso native Ivon Villa has returned to her hometown to adopt the baby of Cecilia, a pregnant maquiladora worker in Juárez. When Cecilia turns up strangled and disemboweled in the desert, Ivon is thrown into the churning chaos of abuse and murder. Even as the rapes and killings of "girls from the south" continue--their tragic stories written in desert blood--a conspiracy covers up the crimes that implicate everyone from the Maquiladora Association to the Border Patrol.
When Ivon’s younger sister gets kidnapped in Juárez, Ivon knows that it’s up to her to find her sister, whatever it takes. Despite the sharp warnings she gets from family, friends, and nervous officials, Ivon’s investigation moves her deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of silence.
From acclaimed poet and prose-writer Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Desert Blood is a gripping thriller that ponders the effects of patriarchy, gender identity, border culture, transnationalism, and globalization on an international crisis.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 大约在5年前，1998年的夏天，在德克萨斯州Juárez外侧的吉娃娃沙漠，只需从EI 帕索穿过一条河便可到达的地方，发现了100多具被严重破坏且遭到亵渎的尸体。这是至今发生的最大规模的暴力死亡事件，目标受众都是可怜的年轻女子和边界处惊恐不已的居民。伊冯•维拉是EI帕索当地人，当时她正回到家乡，为了收养塞西莉亚的小婴儿，塞西莉亚当时正怀有身孕，在Juárez的一家马基拉朵拉工厂工作。当得知塞西莉亚惨遭勒死，并被毁尸在沙漠上的那一刻起，伊冯的世界从此也不再平静了，她逐渐被卷入残酷的虐待与谋杀案之中。这些“南方女孩”不断惨遭强奸与杀害---而他们的故事也不断被记录在血光沙漠中---一股阴谋的气息笼罩在这一惨案之上，冥冥之中似乎牵连着所有从马基拉朵拉工厂到帕特边境的人们。直到亲妹妹也在Juárez遭到绑架，伊冯终于意识到是时候她要踏上解救妹妹的历程了，不管付出多少代价，都要成功。尽管家人，朋友以及紧张的政府都劝阻她去冒险，她依旧毅然前往，随着她调查的逐渐深入，她似乎逐渐走近这篇谜一样的静谧之中。阿里西亚•格斯柏是著名的诗人与散文作家，《血光沙漠》是一部惊悚小说，但惊悚背后又带领我们走进父系社会，走近性别身份，走近边界文化，在当代经济危机盛行之际，作者引领我们更为深入反思跨国问题与全球化。(兼职翻译-DC)
Awards/获奖情况：版权已授予美国，意大利，法国，墨西哥
About the Author/作者介绍： 阿里西亚•格斯柏•阿拉巴著名作家，创作诗歌，小说，非小说等众多体裁，其中有诗集与散文集，历史小说《索尔•朱阿娜的第二梦》（墨西哥大学出版社1999）。她同时兼任威尔维特•巴里尔斯：流行文化杂志主编，并于洛杉矶加利福尼亚大学担任芝加哥与研究副教授。格斯柏出生于EI帕索的Juárez边境，自从1998年以来，她以偶只致力于调查这一案件，并与2003年在加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校就这一谋杀案组织过全球讨论会。 ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA is the author of various works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, among them a collection of poems and essays, La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge: Poetry y Otras Movidas (Arte Público Press, 2003), and a historical novel, Sor Juana’s Second Dream (University of New Mexico Press, 1999). She is also the editor of Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities (Palgrave / Macmillan, 2003). An Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and English at the University of California, Los Angeles, Gaspar de Alba is a native of the El Paso/Juárez border. She has been researching the crimes since 1998 and organized an international conference on the murders at UCLA in 2003.
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