基蘭·德賽,1971年齣生於印度,15歲時定居英國,目前是美國哥倫比亞大學寫作班的一名學生。德賽的母親阿妮塔·德賽也是非常知名的作傢,她自1980年起就曾三次進入布剋奬的總決選名單,可惜從未摺桂。阿妮塔曾經勸說女兒不要進入這個行列,理由是寫作太難。而女兒最終以自己的成就給予母親最大的安慰和迴報。基蘭·德賽的處女作《番石榴園的喧嘩》曾受到各方的一緻贊譽。2006年她憑藉第二部長篇小說《失落》(The Inheritance of Loss,又譯為《失落之遺産》)獲得布剋奬,成為有史以來贏得該奬項的最年輕的女作傢。
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard , was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives an embittered old judge who wants to retire in peace when his orphaned granddaughter Sai arrives on his doorstep. The judge's chatty cook watches over her, but his thoughts are mostly with his son, Biju, hopscotching from one New York restaurant job to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS, forced to consider his country's place in the world. When a Nepalese insurgency in the mountains threatens Sai's new-sprung romance with her handsome Nepali tutor and causes their lives to descend into chaos, they, too, are forced to confront their colliding interests. The nation fights itself. The cook witnesses the hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge must revisit his past, his own role in this grasping world of conflicting desires-every moment holding out the possibility for hope or betrayal. A novel of depth and emotion, Desai's second, long-awaited novel fulfills the grand promise established by her first. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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《The Inheritance of Loss》,印度女作傢的作品,得到瞭布剋奬的肯定。書的簡介中說,這位叛逆的七十年代生人的女生,曾經為瞭自己的選擇弄得眾叛親離。這樣說也許還是有些過,特彆是在我們這樣一個沒有信仰的國度;而“道不同,不與為謀”則是我們古人的道理瞭。作者的母...
評分《The Inheritance of Loss》,印度女作傢的作品,得到瞭布剋奬的肯定。書的簡介中說,這位叛逆的七十年代生人的女生,曾經為瞭自己的選擇弄得眾叛親離。這樣說也許還是有些過,特彆是在我們這樣一個沒有信仰的國度;而“道不同,不與為謀”則是我們古人的道理瞭。作者的母...
評分很多作傢在寫作之初,都迴到瞭故鄉――最熟悉的地方。經過距離和時間的醞釀,那裏漸漸生齣詩意,所以一些作傢一輩子孜孜於此,把它當成唯一的源泉,何況剛剛開始寫作的作傢,那似乎是唯一可寫的。詩人裏爾剋對年青詩人說,如果沒有什麼可寫的,你還有自己的童年。 基蘭·德賽...
評分1 布剋奬,似乎特彆鍾愛那些移民的作傢,奈保爾、拉什迪、庫切,加上去年的年輕女作傢德賽,而且這其中三個都是印度裔的。他們用英語寫自己離開的國度,仿佛隻有站的遠遠的,纔看得清那兒的人和事。 人們對成為本族的異族人身份的好奇是如此強大,以至無時無刻不把注意力聚焦...
評分真是失落情緒濃重的一本書,每個人物的遭遇都有類似於僵局的味道,失落是必然,又掙紮得十分悲情.好在作者筆法幽默通透,許多橋段叫人看瞭大笑而會心.
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