阿卜杜勒拉扎克·古尔纳 2021诺贝尔文学奖得主 砾之心 英文原版 Gravel Heart [平装]

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“这是一个关于流亡、迁徙和背叛的强有力的故事”——《天堂》，2021诺贝尔文学奖获得者阿卜杜勒拉扎克·古尔纳。

这部激动人心的、严谨的第一人称叙事描述了年轻的萨利姆的命运，直到结尾处可怕地揭露了一个对他保密的家庭秘密，但这对他作为一个漂泊在外的人的整个人生轨迹是决定性的。

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萨利姆一直都知道他的父亲想要抛弃他。

萨利姆与父母和他崇拜的叔叔阿米尔生活在一个充满秘密的房子里，他是一个爱读书的孩子，也是一个常被夜惊困扰的梦想家。在20世纪70年代，桑给巴尔镇正在发生变化。游客们来到这里，岛上的白沙掩盖了对过去冲突的痕迹——一场渴望从英国殖民主义手中独立并迅速发起的血腥革命。当他的父亲搬出去，沉沦于凌乱的自省中时，萨利姆感到困惑和羞愧，然而他的母亲对此默不作声，也也不跟一个陌生人解释她的缺席；沉默在此悄然蔓延。

就在这是，魅力四射的阿米尔叔叔（现在是一名高级外交官）为萨利姆提供了逃避的机会时，可以给这个孤独的少年前往伦敦上大学。但是，萨利姆对于这个充满敌意的城市的严寒和汹涌的人潮来说，没有任何的准备。他努力寻找一个立足点，并理解他的家庭核心的黑暗，他必须面对他亲近的人的毁灭性真相，以及关于爱和权力的影响。碎石之心》以不伤感的精确性和深刻的理解力唤起了移民的经历，是一个关于孤立、身份、归属和背叛的强有力的影响性故事，也是阿卜杜勒拉扎克·古尔纳令人吃惊的成就。

A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal, from the Booker Prize–shortlisted author of Paradise.

Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island's white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict--the longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by bloody revolution. When his father moves out, retreating into disheveled introspection, Salim is confused and ashamed. His mother does not discuss the change, nor does she explain her absences with a strange man; silence is layered on silence.

When glamorous Uncle Amir, now a senior diplomat, offers Salim an escape, the lonely teenager travels to London for college. But nothing has prepared him for the biting cold and seething crowds of this hostile city. Struggling to find a foothold, and to understand the darkness at the heart of his family, he must face devastating truths about those closest to him--and about love, sex, and power. Evoking the immigrant experience with unsentimental precision and profound understanding, Gravel Heart is a powerfully affecting story of isolation, identity, belonging, and betrayal, and Abdulrazak Gurnah's most astonishing achievement.