SHE WILL BUILD HIM A CITY
Book ID/图书代码： 00200014B73474
English Summary/英文概要： As night falls in Delhi a mother spins tales from her past for her sleeping daughter. Her now grown-up child is a puzzle with a million pieces whom she hopes, through her words and her love, to somehow make whole again. Meanwhile, as the last train from Rajiv Chowk Station pulls away, a young man rides the metro and dreams of murder. In another corner of the city, a newborn wrapped in a blood-red towel lies on the steps of an orphanage as his mother walks away. There are twenty million bodies in this city and this woman, man and child are only three. But their stories - of a secret love that blossoms in the shadows of grief, of a corrosive guilt that taints the soul, and of an orphaned boy who maps out his own destiny - weave in and out of the lives of those around them to form a dazzling kaleidoscope of a novel. Beautiful, beguiling and audacious, this is the story of a city and its people, of love and horror, of belonging and forgiveness: a powerful and unforgettable tale of modern India.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 新德里。夜幕降临。一位母亲为了她那正在熟睡的女儿将自己的过去写成故事。她的女儿已经长大了，变得像一堆拼图碎片一样让人费解。她希望通过她的文字和爱能够将她的女儿拼起来。同一时间，拉吉夫广场站的最后一班列车正驶出站台，列车上坐着一个年轻人，心里盘算着杀人。在城市的另一个角落，一个被一块血红色毛巾包裹着的新生儿躺在一家孤儿院的台阶上，他的母亲渐渐走远。这三个人在这个拥有两千万人口的城市中显然微不足道，但是他们的故事，一个关于悲哀中默默的爱意，一个关于玷污灵魂的罪恶，一个关于自生自灭的孤儿，一起交织出他们周围的人们的生活，也形成了这部小说令人眼花缭乱的万花筒视野。这本书语言优美、意境迷人、下笔大胆。这是一个关于一座城和城民的故事，关于爱与恐惧，归属和宽恕的故事。这也是关于现代印度的一个强有力的、令人难忘的传说。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：Jha 真的很擅长叙述，巧设悬念，讲述故事的方法几近诡异……他是一个了不起的作家。《星期日泰晤士报》相当了不起，差不多是印度小说 《John Fowles on The Blue Bedspread Enchanting》的成熟版......Jha 不害怕宣泄情绪，却从来不掉入煽情的陷阱。这一点本身就相当了不起。《每日电报》
Jha has a real knack for narrative, alternating urgency and delay to the point where his virtuoso handling of the story becomes almost tricksy ... He is a remarkable writer Sunday Times Something rather remarkable, almost a coming of age of the Indian novel John Fowles on The Blue Bedspread Enchanting ... Jha is not afraid to risk emotion, but he never falls into the trap of sentimentality. That is, in itself, a considerable achievement Daily Telegraph
About the Author/作者介绍： Raj Kamal 是《印度快讯》的主编。《印度快讯》曾三次赢得国际新闻机构印度新闻卓越奖。所著小说《The Blue Bedspread》曾获英联邦作家最佳处女作奖（欧亚），并被选为纽约时报年度书籍。《 If You Are Afraid of Heights》在2013年被提名 Hutch-Crossword Book Award奖；《Fireproof》名列2006年CNN-IBN印度最佳出版物第一名。其小说被译成十几种外文出版。Raj 现在在新德里工作，居于古尔冈。
Raj Kamal Jha is Chief Editor of The Indian Express which has won the International Press Institute’s India Award for Excellence in Journalism three times. His novels include The Blue Bedspread, winner of the 2000 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Eurasia) and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; If You Are Afraid of Heights, a finalist for the Hutch-Crossword Book Award in 2003; and Fireproof, rated first in CNN-IBN’s list of best books published in India in 2006. His novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Raj works in New Delhi and lives in Gurgaon.
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