THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF OBJECTS
Book ID/图书代码： 02000013B65719
English Summary/英文概要： The objects that surround us tell the stories of our lives, sometimes in unexpected ways.
A young Kuwaiti girl is renamed Amerika to celebrate the US role in the liberation of Kuwait, but as she grows older and begins to bristle under the restraints of an ever more conservative society, her name becomes a barometer of her country’s growing hostility towards the US. A Palestinian teenager -- preoccupied with his lack of facial hair and his alluring neighbour -- is reluctantly drawn into a botched suicide bombing by two belligerent classmates. A Kuwaiti woman married to a Greek doctor is unable to shake the depression that has plagued her since the birth of her second child, even as the family travels to Greece on holiday. A middle-aged American man dying from testicular cancer looks back on his years teaching in the Middle East, his extramarital affairs and his attempted rape of a close friend - and on the abiding forgiveness of his wife. A Kuwaiti woman returns to her husband and three daughters after being kept captive in Iraq as a prisoner of war for a decade.
The recent history of the Middle East - the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the US occupation of Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - provides the backdrop for this collection of short stories. Yet in a region sometimes overwhelmed by geopolitical, military and religious events, these stories are a quiet look at the lives of people in the region. They are personal, poetic stories of adolescent love and yearnings for independence, of the fragility of marriage and the void left by childlessness - and of the uncanny power of objects to reveal memories and tell stories.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我们身边的物体有时会以出乎意料的方式讲述出有关于我们的生命故事。
一名年轻的科威特女孩被重新命名为阿美莉卡，以庆祝美国解放科威特使其获得自由，然而随着她年龄的不断增长，她发现自己生活在一个愈加管制的社会体制之下，她的名字仿佛成为了一种衡量标准，不难看出她的祖国正对美国表现出越来越大的敌意。一名巴勒斯坦青少年---由于没有胡子而焦虑不已，而他的迷人的邻居---在犹豫之中还是被卷入了两名好斗的同学的自杀式爆炸案中。一名科威特女子嫁给了一名希腊籍医生，然而自从第二个孩子出生以后，她便再也挥之不去心中的那股沮丧惆怅之气，尽管她和家人还一同为此前往希腊旅游了一番。一名中年美国男子正饱受睾丸癌的折磨，他回顾自己的一生：在中东地区教学的经历、婚外情的经历、企图强奸自己的亲密友人，以及永恒的祈求妻子的原谅。一名科威特妇女作为伊拉克战犯被囚禁了数十年后，终于与自己的丈夫以及两个女儿得以团聚。
近年来的中东历史---伊拉克入侵科威特、美军占领伊拉克以及以色列-巴勒斯坦的冲突均为这本短篇故事集提供了背景与素材。对于一个常常被地缘政治所操控，为军队所占领以及宗教事件频发的地区，本书中的故事将带领你更好得认识生活在这些地区的人们。他们是一个个既独立又充满着诗意的故事，有关于青春懵懂的爱、对独立的渴望、脆弱的婚姻以及童年缺失留下的无尽空洞---最终他们将化身为一股事物的神秘力量，揭开记忆，道来故事。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：The old world and the new. The strife in The Gulf, once peaceful and reflective. East and West, Arabic and English, the poetry of the heart, the eye of the hawk; all these elements produce the lustrous pearls of Mai Al-Nakib’s short stories (Hanan al-Shaykh)
About the Author/作者介绍： 麦•艾尔纳吉布，1979年出生于科威特。她拥有美国布朗大学英国文学博士学位，现在科威特大学教授战后殖民研究和比较文学课程。《隐匿之光》是她的第一部短篇故事小说集。作者现居科威特，近期正致力于其第一部小说的创作。
Mai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD in English literature from Brown University in the US and teaches postcolonial studies and comparative literature at Kuwait University. The Hidden Light of Objects is her first collection of short stories. She lives in Kuwait, and is currently writing her first novel.
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