作者:
Daniel Nayeri
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Daniel Nayeri (Narrator) 出版社: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 副标题: (a true story) 出版年: 2020-8-25 装帧: audio ISBN: 9780593168417
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching bac...
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the
moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy...and further back to the fieldsnear the river Aras, where rain-soaked flowers
bled red like the yolk of the sunset had burst over everything, and further back still to the jasmine-scented city of Isfahan. Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story).
作者简介
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Daniel Nayeri is a writer and editor in New York City. He wrote and produced “The Cult of Sincerity,” the first feature film to be world premiered by YouTube. He has had all kinds of jobs around books, including book repairman, literary agent, used bookstore clerk, children’s librarian, Official Story-Time Reader Leader, editor, copy-editor, and even carpenter (making bookshelv...
Daniel Nayeri is a writer and editor in New York City. He wrote and produced “The Cult of Sincerity,” the first feature film to be world premiered by YouTube. He has had all kinds of jobs around books, including book repairman, literary agent, used bookstore clerk, children’s librarian, Official Story-Time Reader Leader, editor, copy-editor, and even carpenter (making bookshelves). He’s also a professional pastry chef. He loves Street Fighter 2, hates the word “foodie,” and is an award-winning stuntman.
Daniel and his sister/co-writer Dina were both born in Iran and spent many young adult years in Europe. There they learned several languages between them and tried Frosted Flakes for the first time.
You’re losing time.
You don’t care.
Little by little, you stop caring about most things.
Who cares if they ever let you go anywhere. What sadness you’ve seen. Maybe it never goes away. Maybe it’s the most true thing. Who cares anyway. Who cares if the people of the world don’t want Daniel.
Daniel doesn’t need the world.
And he doesn’t need the people.
But you have to wait.
It’s dark now and you’ve eaten the begrudged food and counted thousands of seconds and become so angry. Your fists go stiff and you stagger up the cement stairs to your door in the unmarked halls to your cement room and you lie down. And you admit you do need stuff. You whimper that you want love.
And you wait.
You wait all night.
You wait for the Committee to find you.
You wait for some stamp to give you perm... (查看原文)
Poor people don’t get to choose what they eat, and they don’t get to hide where they poop—that’s why we think of them as animals.
So there’s one aspect of pooping—being rich or not.
But you can tell a lot about cultures too, by how they handle pooping, cause it’s the other half of their cuisine.
Korean food is the tastiest but makes the smelliest poops.
English food is pretty much the same in both directions.
South Indian food is so spicy it burns on the way out, but it’s worth it.
Oklahoma BBQ takes its time and sits heavy in your belly for more than a day.
Oklahoma Tex-Mex is some of the best food in the world, but the poops are soupy.
Italy has a great taste-to-poop ratio, which is probably why so many people like it best.
And I don’t want to brag, but Persian food is the perfe... (查看原文)
🌸作者在36岁时以12岁的自己口吻写回忆，故事以闪回的方式不断跳跃穿插，其中穿插记录大量的历史，religion，文化。如作者所承认的：A patchwork memory is the shame of a refugee. 🌸patchwork memory，这个词用得太精准了，对于我们每一个人来说，回忆总是这样非线性的...
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It’s been a while that I haven’t read books of “Les Misérables”. The previous one that touched me the most is 《大地之上》which has no miracles, no candy bars, no goody bags... well, there is a few, if we count meticulously. It's just, full of pure su...
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0 有用 松下野果🌈 2023-07-19 08:05:22 澳大利亚
的确是一本令我疯狂走神的书，最近unexpected事件突发，让人too overwhelmed. 幸好一切顺其自然地往好的方向发展。不管外界如何纷杂，多少铁拳捶打，扎进书里你就即刻躲入黄金屋偶遇颜如玉，真正的心灵避难所。生活在别处，而书中皆是别处。
0 有用 采风的蘑菇 2023-09-09 13:05:21 上海
那么有钱，出逃也得贿赂，还有好多人想逃得没有办法。 Daniel的口吻还蛮有趣的，看到后记有点感伤，谁又没有自己爱的那位Baba Haji，Sima真的很牛。 但是叙事真的有点乱，不是线性叙事，想往下看又穿插了别的。
0 有用 Jacintta H 2020-11-18 10:17:36
作者三十多岁写了这本书，书里的他是一个十一二岁的孩子，这本书也是用小孩子的口吻讲述的。母亲带着作者和作者的姐姐逃离了伊朗，几经辗转终于在美国安家。书里涉及到了家庭暴力、校园霸凌、民族冲突、宗教冲突。但又穿插着作者小时候的糗事，让我好几次笑出声来；还穿插着波斯传说，故事非常引人入胜。
0 有用 盗火者Howell 2021-01-04 12:41:23
虽然听的过程中经常会走神，但却是一本很有意思也很容易听得懂的YA book。作者叙述的每个小故事都很有趣，印象深刻的有这么一些：自己名字（母语中是King的意思）的由来、祖父修改谚语以自嘲marriage带来的影响、作为总督夫人的母亲的祖母与图书馆员的爱情悲剧、姐姐在伦敦遇见耶稣的经历、母亲在伦敦的信仰归正、伊朗残酷的宗教政策、逃离伊朗时的三个miracles、作者在迪拜时为了让父母在离婚时不要吵... 虽然听的过程中经常会走神，但却是一本很有意思也很容易听得懂的YA book。作者叙述的每个小故事都很有趣，印象深刻的有这么一些：自己名字（母语中是King的意思）的由来、祖父修改谚语以自嘲marriage带来的影响、作为总督夫人的母亲的祖母与图书馆员的爱情悲剧、姐姐在伦敦遇见耶稣的经历、母亲在伦敦的信仰归正、伊朗残酷的宗教政策、逃离伊朗时的三个miracles、作者在迪拜时为了让父母在离婚时不要吵架而乱吃恶心东西、意大利难民营中遇到的库尔德男孩、父亲抱怨God夺走了他的一切到后来去美国看他们时在只会回答Yes的场景下受洗（但又感觉他是做好了准备的）。但因为听书过程中的走神，反而对Oklahoma发生的许多没太有印象，后面可以找本纸质书再读一读。 (展开)
0 有用 ZZ 2024-07-18 20:19:18 美国
青少年讀物，但是可以窺看一斑。