As a successor to his Booker-nominated novel, Paradise, Abdulrazak Gurnah's fifth book, Admiring Silence, presents the despair of being torn from one's roots. Gurnah's unnamed narrator flees to England as a teenager to escape the violent political rule of his native island in Zanzibar. There he lives for nearly twenty years in suburban comfort with an Englishwoman and holds a r...
As a successor to his Booker-nominated novel, Paradise, Abdulrazak Gurnah's fifth book, Admiring Silence, presents the despair of being torn from one's roots. Gurnah's unnamed narrator flees to England as a teenager to escape the violent political rule of his native island in Zanzibar. There he lives for nearly twenty years in suburban comfort with an Englishwoman and holds a respectable position teaching at a university. Despite his apparent success, as an immigrant he is caught in cultural limbo, always feeling marginal in British society. The tales he weaves for his English lover and her family of an idyllic past in Africa console him temporarily, but when sanctions are lifted the narrator chooses to leave the family he created in England and return to Zanzibar. What he finds there destroys the image of the childhood paradise he had preserved in his heart-now he can never return home.
0 有用 池巴年 2021-10-07 19:08:19
文学奖啊xdm
0 有用 Le Flaneur 2023-07-29 11:22:07 上海
双面异乡人的故事,作者对日常生活中的细微种族歧视观察描写得很到位;但从女权的角度看就比较可圈可点了,“我”作为一个有机会去英国留学的男性,回到家乡后被安排相亲,对方是个年轻漂亮的女生,愿意嫁给40多岁的“我”,是因为她想去英国留学,在重男轻女的文化下,她的家庭几乎不可能资助女儿出国留学,而“我”有机会去英国留学,很有可能因为“我”是个男的,然而“我”只顾着自己生活中的苦恼,对女性的痛苦视而不见
0 有用 钦努阿的复合机 2023-12-03 13:14:54 北京
The Last Gift 姐妹篇 今年读到的最可恨的男主 但他真的好可怜啊
3 有用 睁开的眼 2021-10-07 19:17:57
恭喜恭喜,2021诺奖得主
0 有用 阿布拉克萨斯 2021-12-19 23:21:39
第二本