ADE: A LOVE STORY

Book ID/图书代码： 00500012B54324

English Summary/英文概要： I’m delighted to send you ADÉ , Rebecca Walker’s gem of a first novel about a 20 year old woman and a young Islamic, Swahili man who meet, fall in love, and become engaged on the island of Lamu off the coast of Kenya -- one of the original Swahili settlements in Kenya’s oldest continually inhabited town. Adé gives her the Muslim name of Farida which means “exceptional, a jewel. There is no other like her. She stands alone.” Farida is traveling with a girlfriend, but when she meets Adé, she decides to stay on the island and her girlfriend continues without her. Farida and Adé become lovers and live in one of the traditional small white houses on the island, which she calls their “House of Words” – it’s there they teach each other their languages and she agrees to marry him. Adé’s mother and sisters begin instructing her in the traditional ways of being an Islamic wife. But the imam won’t allow the ceremony to proceed unless Adé travels to America to ask permission of her parents, which means he must go to Nairobi for the first time to arrange for a passport made possible by Farida’s bribes. Farida is traumatized by the corruption, violence, prejudice and murder she encounters along the way and eventually succumbs to malaria on what happens to be the first day of the Gulf War.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 很高兴能为您送上《艾德》，丽贝卡•沃尔克的人气处女作，小说讲述了一位20岁的年轻女子和一位年轻的伊斯兰教徒（斯瓦希里人）相爱，并在肯尼亚海边的拉穆岛——在肯尼亚最古老的不间断居民镇上的一个斯瓦希里原定居点——订婚。艾德为她取穆斯林名，名为法丽达，意为“独特的，珠宝。她与众不同，她独一无二。”法丽亚本来在和女伴旅游，但当她遇见了艾德，她决定留在岛上，她的女伴则离开她继续旅行。法丽亚和艾德成为恋人，住在岛上一间传统的小白房里，她称之为“语言屋”——就在这儿，他们互相学习对方的语言，而她答应了他的求婚。艾德的母亲和姐妹开始用传统的方法教她如何当一名伊斯兰教徒的妻子。但伊玛目不允许婚礼仪式的进行，除非艾德前往美国获得法丽亚父母的同意，这意味着他必须前往从未踏足的内罗毕办理护照，而没有法丽亚的贿赂，护照难以办成。法丽亚沿途遭遇的腐败、暴力、歧视和谋杀使她深受重创，最终她死于疟疾，恰巧是海湾战争爆发的第一天。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：Beautifully written - I would have liked it to be longer though, and the plot developed a little bit more...

About the Author/作者介绍： 丽贝卡•沃尔克被《时代杂志》评为50位美国未来的领导人之一。她对下列相关全球对话做出了巨大贡献，如身份、权力、文化和通过书籍、讲座、博客、社交网络、流行杂志、文学、学术期刊、广播节目、电影、电视包装和内容发展所带来的人类家庭演变。《时代杂志》将她评为最具影响力的时代领军人物之一。

1992年，她以优异成绩毕业于耶鲁大学，并合作创建第三波协会。沃尔克是第三波女权主义的创始领导人之一。她的作品曾发表于《魅力》杂志、《华盛顿邮报》、《文学杂志》、《BOMB》杂志、《新闻周刊》、《Vibe》杂志、《简单生活》、《现代新娘》、《本质》杂志、《访谈杂志》及其它杂志和文学合集。她定期为《赫芬顿邮报》写博客，并现身《查理•罗斯脱口秀》、《早安美国》、《奥普拉脱口秀》、《新鲜空气》、及几十个博客、网站和其它媒体。

丽贝卡已在500多所大学和企业园区进行演讲，包括哈佛大学、布朗大学、麻省理工大学、奥伯林大学、乌得勒支大学、林雪平大学、罗林斯学院、联合学院、摩根大通公司和微软。她在以下机构参与创意合作：沃尔克艺术中心、汉默尔美术馆、赫德兰艺术中心、爱沙尼亚性别与文化部、纽约犹太人博物馆、摩卡咖啡、阿姆斯特丹文化教育基金会和都灵默兹基金会。

Rebecca Walker was chosen as one of Time magazine’s fifty future leaders of America. She has made a substantial contribution to the global conversation about identity, power, culture, and the evolution of the human family through books, lectures, blogs, social networks, popular magazines, literary and academic journals, radio programs, film and television appearances and content development. Time magazine named her one of the most influential leaders of her generation.

She graduated cum laude from Yale in 1992 and co-founded the Third Wave Foundation. Walker is considered one of the founding leaders of the Third Wave of feminism. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, the Washington Post, Bookforum, BOMB, Newsweek, Vibe, Real Simple, Modern Bride, Essence, and Interview, among many other magazines and literary collections. She blogs regularly for the Huffington Post, and she has appeared on Charlie Rose, Good Morning America, Oprah, Fresh Air, BET, and dozens of blogs, sites, and other media.

Rebecca has addressed audiences at over five hundred universities and corporate campuses including Harvard, Brown, MIT, Oberlin, The University of Utrecht, The University of Linkoping, Rollins College, Union College, JP Morgan Chase, and Microsoft. She has participated in creative collaborations at the Walker Art Center, The Hammer Museum, Headlands Center for the Arts, The Ministries of Gender and Culture of Estonia, The Jewish Museum in New York, Mocca: The Amsterdam Cultural Education Foundation, and the Merz Foundation in Turin.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Sperling & Kupfer (Italy).

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