BOOKING PASSAGE: WE IRISH AND AMERICANS
Book ID/图书代码： 11513012B57362
English Summary/英文概要： In thirty-five years and dozens of return trips to Ireland, Thomas Lynch has found a template for the larger world inside the small one, the planet in the local parish. Part memoir, part cultural study, Booking Passage is a brilliant, often comedic guidebook for those “fellow travelers, fellow pilgrims” making their way through the complexities of their own lives and times.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 从20世纪70年代初起，托马斯·林奇开始与生活在爱尔兰的族人取得联系，三十五年间他数十次横跨大西洋，往返于爱尔兰和美国两地。林奇沿着自己家族的迁徙轨迹，回溯了它的历史与故事，检视了自己的生活，也思考了族裔归属与身份认同等问题。
在这部半似回忆录、半似文化研 究的作品中，林奇写到了他那操爱尔兰口音谈起美国梦的曾祖父，晚年为了土地权益不惜与政府为敌的远亲，还追忆了自己与酗酒的斗争、曾经的女权主义生活以及喜忧参半的婚姻……
我的姓名和我亲族的姓名重复着代代相传，时间毫不费力地承载着我们所有人，就好像洒着月光的起伏海面，充满各种可能。我们爱尔兰人，我们美国人，其他所有带着信仰启程的人，在每一个星球的每一个半球的每一座岛屿的边缘仰望星辰的每一个人:我们都相同又相异[1] 。--托马斯·林奇(BAIKE)
Awards/获奖情况：一位诗人、人类学爱好者、殡葬从业人员写下的爱尔兰行旅指南
一本通俗的文化研究作品，一本非虚构作品集，一本个人回忆录
家国历史、族裔归属、宗教认同，性格各异的族人、过往人生中不可磨灭的情感痕迹、爱尔兰诗人的诗篇--共同塑造了一个关于爱尔兰的独特故事[1]
这些文章既保留了个人印记又有历史的味道。它向外延伸，让爱尔兰南方殖民压迫和北方冲突不断的经历成为一个模版，去反映其他国家正在经历的痛苦。--《观察家报》(The Observer)
通过这种有趣、吸引人和略带挑衅的方式，《往来于故土之间》将作者一生都在思考的混沌和多重性抓拢到了一起。与此同时，它依然有一种敏锐、快乐的精神，能让读者享受乐趣。--《独立报》(The Independent)
林奇在家乡之外描绘了一幅家乡的迷人图画:爱尔兰西克莱尔郡莫文镇一带那如梦似幻的风情。--《纽约时报书评》(New York Times Book Review)
林奇不仅仅是一介游客，而是一个对祖辈的起源深深认同，对那个地方和那里的人有着细腻敏感理解的人……真是本美妙的书。--《华盛顿邮报》(The Washington Post)
哪怕对非爱尔兰后裔来说，本书都值得一读，这本书是写给那些渴望得到雅致的阅读享受，同时又青睐睿智叙述的读者的。--《西雅图时报》(The Seattle Times)
全书最好的部分来自各种声音的交织，那些从回忆中涌现出的声音……(本书)是对留在地球另一边的家乡的多声部感恩圣歌。精彩绝伦。--《爱尔兰时报》(The Irish Times)
林奇的思维是敏感而锐利的，同他一道漫步在他的思想中，是一种愉悦的享受。--《底特律自由新闻报》(Detroit Free Press)
’a mixture of memoir, biography, travelogue, literary criticism, history, musing and philosophising. This book is charmingly, infuriatingly, unmistakably Irish’ -- The Times
Undertaker-cum-poet Lynch (Bodies in Motion and at Rest) recalls his long romance with Eire and how it has affected his life in this compelling memoir. He takes off for the Emerald Isle early in 1970 to meet his people, who live on the edge of the Atlantic in County Clare. He stays with his elderly cousins, Nora and Tommy, a brother and sister who never married. The humble cottage has no water and is heated by a turf fire. Here the young Yank absorbs his culture shock and learns how life is lived without television, cars and other modern distractions. After Tommy’s death, Lynch and Nora become closer, and he begins to bring the 20th century into the house in the form of running water. Along the way he tells the story of the Lynches of County Clare: how they survived "starvation, eviction and emigration—the three-headed scourge of English racism"—and the pain of diaspora as they emigrated to the U.S. Along the way Lynch examines his own life: his love-hate relationship with the misogynist Catholic Church and pedophilic priests; his battle with alcoholism; the breakup of his marriage and remarriage; and his unusual love of the undertaking trade. This is a deeply thought-out book filled with poetry, pathos, triumph and lots of Irish laughter.
About the Author/作者介绍： 托马斯·林奇 爱尔兰裔美国诗人、作家。1948年出生于美国底特律，1974年接手家族在密歇根州小镇米尔福德的殡仪馆，开始了殡仪员生涯，直到今天。此外，林奇还任教于韦恩州立大学殡葬系，并在密歇根大学安娜堡分校教授创意写作，在埃默里大学坎德勒神学院教授"耶稣的生平、教义及其文化影响"。他的诗和散文常发表于《哈泼斯》《伦敦书评》《纽约时报》《纽约客》和《巴黎评论》等著名刊物。另著有《殡葬人手记》(The Undertaking)、《动与静的身体》(Bodies in Motion and at Rest)、《幽灵及其他》(Apparition & Late Fictions)等。
林奇及其作品是两部获奖纪录片--《殡葬人》(The Undertaking，2008年艾美奖)，《学习重力》(Learning Gravity，2009年密歇根奖)--的主题，也是广受好评的HBO系列剧《六尺之下》(Six Feet Under)的灵感来源[1] 。
Thomas Lynch is the author of two collections of essays, Bodies in Motion and at Rest and The Undertaking, which was shortlisted for the 1997 National Book Award, and two collections of poems: Grimalkin & Other Poems and Still Life in Milford. He lives and works in Milford, Michigan, where he is the funeral director, and in West Clare where he keeps an ancestral cottage. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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