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Book ID/图书代码： 12760012B56274

English Summary/英文概要： How do you fit in in a new country when you’re a “giant freak,” you don’t speak the language and bizarre things are happening to your motherland as well as to your body? In a candid and peculiar voice reminiscent of Heather O’Neill’s Lullabies for Little Criminals, Aga Maksimowska tells the story of an eleven-year-old girl in an adult’s body whose coming of age in a country undergoing a revolution is interrupted by a sudden and cruel move to Canada. Readers will find the story of the Autumn of Nations, in 1989 in Eastern Europe, a time when youth took to the streets to rebel against a century of suffering under Communist rule, relevant to our time when youth in Egypt, Libya, Syria and many other Arab nations attempt to throw off the yoke of their autocratic regimes. Gosia presents a child’s perspective of revolution, a traumatic time of change which for Gosia herself coincides with the insurrection of her own body and the devastating absence of her migrant-worker parents: a mother who works in Canada and a container ship machinist father who ferries Asian goods to Europe. A sudden move to Canada forces Gosia to experience the tumults of puberty in a foreign land far from loved ones who remain in Poland as it undergoes drastic transformation and struggles to rebuild and invent a new reality for an old republic. In Canada, like many children of migrants, Gosia is unsure of her identity: she’s neither Polish nor Canadian. As she grows up, she’s forced to weave a new existence for herself, one that includes new multi-ethnic influences and old familial traditions.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当你来到一个陌生的国家，所有人都当你是一个“怪咖”的时候，你是如何适应的呢？你不能说自己国家的语言，也不知道自己的祖国正在发生什么奇异的事情？Aga Maksimowska以公正独特的口吻叙述了这样一个故事。一个11岁的女孩，她的灵魂栖居在一个成年女性的身体中，女孩自己的国家正在遭受一场巨大的改革，而她被迫要离开这里，在很短的时间内前往加拿大。读者将会发现在东欧，1989年的秋天是个多事之秋，年轻人会集体来到街上反抗一个世纪以来共产主义的独裁，就好像我们年轻的时候，在埃及，利比亚，叙利亚还有许多阿拉伯国家，也试图去打破独裁者统治的枷锁。Gosia代表了一个孩子看待改革的视角，这对Gosia是很残忍的一段时光，包括她的心理和心理，她还要被迫和自己的父母分开。她妈妈在加拿大工作，爸爸是集装箱船上的机械师，负责把亚洲货物送到欧洲。突然要搬到加拿大迫使Gosia过早结束了无忧无虑的日子，她要到一个陌生的国家，无亲无故，没有人照顾她，因为她的父母必须坚守在波兰因为它正在经历一场巨大的改革，需要人们来重建改革后的国家。在加拿大，就像很多移民的孩子一样，Gosia不清楚她自己的身份，她既不是波兰人也不是加拿大人。随着她慢慢长大，她必须为自己编排一个身份，融合着新多元化民族的影响和古老家乡的传统。(XAT)

Awards/获奖情况：这本书很有趣也很感人，是这位杰出作家的又一本令人难忘的力作。这本小说有关于身份认同，忠实度，人生旅程，毅力和政治，这些都是典型加拿大的标志。

“Maksimowska向我们展示了年轻人看待改革的视角，而这恰恰代表着一种讽刺的看法。书中向我们展示了文化冲突的挑战，与常见的成长过程中遇到的荒谬事物巧妙地结合在一起。”——《环球邮报》

Funny and touching, the book’s often outrageous narrator is as unforgettable as she is relatable. This novel of identity, loyalty, journey, perseverance and politics is quintessentially Canadian.

“Maksimowska offers a engaging young narrator whose viewpoint is edged with ironies…. Coming of age in this book becomes a gauntlet of culture clash, dovetailed smartly with all the usual absurdities of growing up.”-- THE GLOBE AND MAIL

About the Author/作者介绍： AGA MAKSIMOWSKA 居住在多伦多。她在新月学校工作，这是所男校，在那里她担任英语教学组长。这是她的第一部小说。

AGA MAKSIMOWSKA lives in Toronto. She works at Crescent School, an independent day school for boys, where she is currently Head of English /Upper School Teacher. This is her first novel.

Format:电子手稿

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