*本书有英语样章
*本书获得法国Nicolas Bouvier Award
*本书获得西班牙The Anagrama's Chronicle Prize
为什么要写一本关于巴林的书?首先,因为作者的伴侣在那里接受了一份工作,这就是他为什么在该国生活了两年的原因,在此期间,他特意观察、与人交谈,并对这个国家的矛盾和内向性产生了兴趣。其次,因为这些矛盾使巴林成为阿拉伯世界一个非常有趣的现实。这本书涵盖了他日常生活的方方面面:政治压迫、女性和同性恋的性体验、对酒精的有限容忍度、欧洲外籍人士的孤立奢侈生活和亚洲工人所过的截然不同的现实、随着海洋上人工岛屿的增加而增长的房地产市场、语言误解……
关于作者:
Born in Santander in 1979 is a journalist and editor, and the cofounder of the successful independent publisher Libros del K.O. He has worked at Agencia EFE, La Opinion de A Coruña, and Conde Nast Traveler. He has occasionally collaborated in publications such as El País, Vanity Fair, or Altaïr. A Dacha in the Gulf is his first book and has won the first Anagrama Chronicle Prize Sergio González Rodríguez in 2020.