• 《11条生命》
  • 11 Lives
  • 作者:Muhammad Ali Khalidi (编辑/译者)
  • 出版社代理人:OR Books (美国)
  • 出版时间:2022年10月
  • 页数:240页
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  • 版权联系人:yayu@peonyliteraryagency.com
内容介绍

巴勒斯坦流亡者的故事 - 在 Nakba 和 Naksa 之间,经历了失败和屠杀丶挚爱和革命。


本书中所描述的 11 条生命,每一道声音都是独一无二的,每一条生命都表达了自 1948年以来巴勒斯坦人的民族「大浩劫」(Nakba),即以色列人所称的“独立战争”(又称“第一次中东战争”)导致近70万巴勒斯坦人逃离家园或被驱逐。同时,Nakba 记忆更是作为集体身份认同的主要动力。


这本书讲述了小孩在难民营小巷中的冒险记丶少年烈士的悲情故事,以及联合国近东救济工程处一名教师对肤浅同事的失望叙事,还有那些以爱丶劳动和土地串起的抗争行动等等。

书中11则故事是「巴勒斯坦人民不可接受的存在事实」,这些流亡中的巴勒斯坦人的故事也是开放式的,并且会持续在边境引起反响,直到巴勒斯坦获得自由。


关於作者

Muhammad Ali Khalidi 是纽约市立大学研究生中心(CUNY Graduate Center)的哲学系首席教授。他经常撰写有关巴勒斯坦相关议题的文章,其中包括巴勒斯坦难民的权利。他主编的着作有《身份的体现:黎巴嫩巴勒斯坦难民的生活现实》Manifestations of Identity: The Lived Reality of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon。他从阿拉伯语原文翻译成英语的着作有《中世纪伊斯兰哲学着作》 Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings。


本书文章贡献者

Nadia Fahed, Intisar Hajaj, Yafa Talal El-Masri, Youssef Naanaa, Ruba Rahme, Hanin Mohammad Rashid, Mira Sidawi, Wedad Taha, Salem Yassin, Taha Younis, Mahmoud Mohammad Zeidan


本书与 The Institute Of Palestine Studies 联合出版


“This marvelous book lifts the veil of anonymity that has long concealed the reality of refugees, not as UN statistics, but as human beings with stories to tell.”
—Ghada Karmi, Palestinian doctor, writer, and Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter


“Vivid accounts of a world we know too little about”
—Caryl Churchill, playwright

 

“This is a book of remarkable lives, written by remarkable people, whose stories are to savour”
—Elizabeth Laird, children’s fiction and travel writer

 

“Stories about contemporary Palestinians are few and far between in English, let alone stories told in—and by—non-elite, diasporic Palestinian voices. The volume brings a vibrancy and vitality to these stories that reminds the reader of the multitudinous experience of Palestinian refugees”
—Ghenwa Hayek, Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature, University of Chicago

 

“The triumph of this unique book is how it manages to unite the indomitable spirit of Palestinian survival with the transformative potential of first-person narratives. 11 Lives is a deeply humane, precisely detailed, and intimately drawn collection of refugee stories that reveals more about life as a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon—with all the major pitfalls, daily joys, and absolute steadfastness—than any newspaper report, academic treatise, or NGO study ever could.”
—Moustafa Bayoumi, award winning author of The Muslim American Life

 

“offers an assiduous, kaleidoscopic look at life for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon against the tide of a literary supply-chain that demands extractive and paternalistic refugee stories, seldom written by refugees themselves.”
—Mohammed El-Kurd, Palestinian writer and poet