THE ORCHARD OF LOST SOULS

Book ID/图书代码： 04851313B64426

English Summary/英文概要： It is 1988 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, and through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall. Nine-year-old Deqo has left the vast refugee camp she was born in, lured to the city by the promise of her first pair of shoes. Kawsar, a solitary widow, is trapped in her little house with its garden clawed from the desert, confined to her bed after a savage beating in the local police station. Filsan, a young female soldier, has moved from Mogadishu to suppress the rebellion growing in the north. And as the country is unravelled by a civil war that will shock the world, the fates of the three women are twisted irrevocably together. Intimate, frank, brimming with beauty and fierce love, The Orchard of Lost Souls is an unforgettable account of ordinary lives lived in extraordinary times.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这部弥漫着迷失的大气之作，源自出生在索马里的作者纳迪法•默罕默德，本年度英国格兰塔最年轻小说家获得者。作者的第一部小说《曼巴的黑男孩》也是一部同样类似的小说，这部作品主要讲述了自己父亲对已经不在人世的父亲的一段追忆之旅。
《迷失在果园中》故事背景发生在上世纪80年代晚期，索马里北部的哈尔格萨市内战动荡岁月，作者巧妙地透过三代不同年龄段女性的视角，90岁的难民迪哥，一位年轻的女战士弗里莎，寡妇夸斯卡，来展现战争的所带来的毁灭性。
这些身陷战火的女人似乎在急切地在追寻所遗失的痛苦经历。所有这些不幸的故事人物都在追忆着什么，无论是从身体上的，还是从心理上的：年轻的迪哥思念着她的第一双鞋子；孤独的夸斯卡无力地倚靠在她的果园树下，热切地期盼着（自己的身体能受到阳光的普照），而最为年轻活跃的女战士弗里莎来到了索马里的首都摩加迪沙，渴望能靠自己的微薄之力去平息当地持续不断的叛乱，找到一丝和平。随着暴力的升级，生命如同蝼蚁一般消逝，作者默罕默德真实地再现了战争把人类推向“狰狞邪恶一面的”的过程，以及故事中的主人公在遭遇噩耗后，所面临的“无尽痛苦深渊”。
这些由人类所造就的残忍与痛苦 — 伴随着透过铁窗栅栏的星光；果树园内所散发出的各种花香的恬静之美一同融入在这个连年战火的国度画卷中。
这部小说汇集了大量的抒情词汇，宛如主人公夸斯卡沉浸在哀伤中的无尽回忆，（来自她心底的挥之不去的痛苦声音）。
契合着主旋律，和苍劲有力的文字描述，如同缓缓流淌的音乐所触发我们内心深处的回忆；这不仅仅是一部记述着过去的小说，而是一部关于女性如何从废墟中为自己创造未来，渴望重新开始新生的一部作品。
“这是一座需要打破旧世界，去重新开拓新生活的城市，”默罕默德写道，通过每日所发生的故事，生动地再现了这座城市的节奏，从市政厅的时钟滴答声，到交警的口哨声 — “都需要焕发出全新的声音，以不同的姿势去展现废墟中万物重新花开的过程。”这部小说展现了作者个人的突破性创新才华，精炼的语言，全新的叙述风格细述着人们在战火中的迷失……(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：Named as one of Granta’s Best of Young Novelists 2013 - a 10 year event that previously saw the likes of Kazou Ishiguro, AL Kennedy, Jon McGregor, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Graham Swift and Salman Rushdie listed.

About the Author/作者介绍： Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa in 1981 while Somalia was falling deeper into dictatorship. In 1986 she moved to London with her family in what she thought was a temporary move but a couple of years later it became permanent as war broke out in Somalia. She was educated in London and went to Oxford to study History and Politics and she finally returned to Hargeisa, now in the new Republic of Somaliland, in 2008. She lives in London and is currently working on her third novel.

Format:HARDCOVER

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