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Book ID/图书代码： 02000013B62800

English Summary/英文概要： On 1 November 1984, a day after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination, a nineteen-year-old student, Raj, travels back from a class trip with his mentor, Professor Singh. As the group disembark at Delhi station a mob surrounds the professor, throws a tyre over him, douses him in petrol and sets him alight. Years later, after moving to the United States, Raj finds himself compelled to return to India to find his professor’s widow, the beautiful and enigmatic Nelly. As the two walk through the misty mountains of Shimla, painful memories emerge, and Raj realises he must face the truth about his father’s role in the genocidal pogrom. But, as they soon discover, the path leads inexorably back to that day at the train station. In this lyrical and haunting exploration of one of the most shocking moments in the history of the Indian nation, Jaspreet Singh has crafted an affecting and important story of memory, collective silences and personal trauma.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1984年11月1日是印度总理英迪拉•甘地(Indira Gandhi)遇刺的第二天,一名19岁的学生,拉吉(Raj),与他的导师,辛格(Singh)教授一块旅行回来。当这群人在新德里火车站下车时，一伙暴徒立即把教授团团围住,朝他扔了一个轮胎,将汽油浇在他身上并且点燃了他身上的汽油。这件惨剧发生之后，拉吉去了美国,几年后，他发现自己不断受到良心的谴责，于是决定回到印度寻找教授的遗孀，美丽而神秘的内莉(Nelly)。当他们两人步行穿越迷雾缭绕的西姆拉山脉时,痛苦的回忆再次浮现在拉吉的脑海里,他意识到自己必须面对种族灭绝屠杀中关于他父亲角色的真相。但是，他们很快发现，他们走的这条小路无情地通往那天的火车站。本书作者Jaspreet Singh描述了记忆中一个感人至深，极其重要的故事，多年的沉默以及个人的创伤。(Susie)

Awards/获奖情况：Praise for Chef: Singh writes of a beautiful place that dances on the razor wire of India and Pakistan’s disputed border. His prose redefines an exhausted situation, giving it new light Justine Hardy, The Times Its themes of food and war and love and poetry form a series of intricate tightropes that the author treads skilfully, bringing us, in a short book, a lot of pleasures Michael Palin, Observer Books of the Year Extraordinary ... an elegant, angry novel written with eerie grace and quiet courage ... The calm, haunted narrator carefully gathers together anecdotes and details, memories and feelings to tell a story as sharp as a blade Eileen Battersby, Irish Times A fascinating, kaleidoscopic journey through one of the most beautiful yet besieged areas in the world - Jaspreet Singh brings out the full poetry and heartbreak of Kashmir Manil Suri This is a subtle, lyrical novel, told in fragments, and infused with a sense of the beauty of the Kashmir landscape, the pain of unrequited love, and the ugliness of the hostilities between India and Pakistan Independent on Sunday Jaspreet Singh’s Chef carries the scents of cardamon, ice and sweat, is written with such a keen sense of rhythm that you can hear the book as you read it, and is placed not only between India and Pakistan but intriguingly between delicate cuisines and crude politics. The novel is transporting - an experience that is not easily laid to rest Mark Kurlansky Chef is a haunting evocation of the emotional and physcial landscapes of war-torn Kashmir. Jaspreet Singh is a very learned, gifted, and sensitive writer Basharat Peer An elegy to the beauty of Kashmir, written with a sinuous elegance Kate Saunders, The Times Inventive, melancholy, and unflinchingly courageous Siddhartha Deb

About the Author/作者介绍： Jaspreet Singh出生于印度，于1990年移居加拿大。他是小说家,散文家,短篇小说作家，之前是一名高级研究员。他于1998年在加拿大蒙特利尔的麦吉尔大学获得化学工程学的博士学位,两年后决定做一名全职作家。他的处女作故事集《十七个西红柿》在2004年获得“魁北克书评奖”。

Born in India, Jaspreet Singh moved to Canada in 1990. He is a novelist, essayist, short story writer and a former research scientist. He received his doctorate in chemical engineering in 1998 from McGill University, Montreal, and two years later decided to focus full time on writing. Seventeen Tomatoes, his debut story collection, won the 2004 Quebec First Book Prize. Chef, his first novel, about the damaged landscapes of Kashmir, was a 2010 Observer Book of the Year and won the Canadian Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction. He has also been a finalist for four awards including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. His work was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Punjabi and Farsi. He lives in Toronto.

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