OPEN A BOOK,OPEN THE WORLD
出版日期：2023.10.23
ISBN：9781529114225
書號：20303655
裝訂：平裝
定價：$450
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從前，不遠處有個豐饒的土地，棲息於此的動物們快樂地生活著。直到殖民者入侵。近百年後，一場腥風血雨的解放戰開打，一位新領袖的到來，為動物們帶來希望。新領袖是匹極具魅力的馬兒，統治著陽光、統治著一切。
Glory《榮耀》講述著一個被困在古老循環中的王國，揭露維持絕對權力幻象背後，所需的無數詭計陰謀，提醒世人，暴政帶來的榮耀並非永恆真理，僅是受害者屈服下的結果。這樣的榮耀，將在受害者獲得力量、群起反抗後，消失殆盡。
作者NoViolet Bulawayo從《動物農莊》中獲得靈感，藉由處於革命風口浪間的動物世界，更清晰地展現人類世界的真相。
NoViolet Bulawayo’s bold new novel follows the fall of the Old Horse, the long-serving leader of a fictional country, and the drama that follows for a rumbustious nation of animals on the path to true liberation. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup in November 2017 of Robert G. Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president of nearly four decades, Glory shows a country's imploding, narrated by a chorus of animal voices that unveil the ruthlessness required to uphold the illusion of absolute power and the imagination and bulletproof optimism to overthrow it completely. By immersing readers in the daily lives of a population in upheaval, Bulawayo reveals the dazzling life force and irresistible wit that lie barely concealed beneath the surface of seemingly bleak circumstances.
And at the center of this tumult is Destiny, a young goat who returns to Jidada to bear witness to revolution—and to recount the unofficial history and the potential legacy of the females who have quietly pulled the strings here. The animal kingdom—its connection to our primal responses and its resonance in the mythology, folktales, and fairy tales that define cultures the world over—unmasks the surreality of contemporary global politics to help us understand our world more clearly, even as Bulawayo plucks us right out of it.
Although Zimbabwe is the immediate inspiration for this thrilling story, Glory was written in a time of global clamor, with resistance movements across the world challenging different forms of oppression. Thus it often feels like Bulawayo captures several places in one blockbuster allegory, crystallizing a turning point in history with the texture and nuance that only the greatest fiction can.
