Nothing to Envy

Nothing to Envy

作者:Barbara Demick

出版社:Granta Books

出版年:2010-7-8

评分:9.2

ISBN:9781847081414

所属分类:行业好书

书刊介绍

内容简介

North Korea is Orwell's 1984 made reality: it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet; Gone with the Wind is a dangerous, banned book; during political rallies, spies study your expression to check your sincerity. After the death of the country's great leader Kim Il Sung in 1994, famine descended: people stumbled over dead bodies in the street and ate tree bark to survive. Nothing to Envy weaves together the stories of adversity and resilience of six residents of Chongin, North Korea's third largest city. From extensive interviews and with tenacious investigative work, Barbara Demick has recreated the concerns, culture and lifestyles of North Korean citizens in a gripping narrative, and vividly reconstructed the inner workings of this extraordinary and secretive country.

作者简介

Barbara Demick won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nothing to Envy (Granta, 2010), her seminal book on North Korea. She is also the author of Besieged (Granta, 2012), her account of the war in Sarajevo, which won the George Polk Award, the Robert F Kennedy Award and was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize. She lives in New York.

精彩摘录

然而,黑暗又有它的好处。尤其是对于那些正与人偷偷约会的青少年来说。当大人们早早上床之后,冬天这个时间可能会早至晚上七点,那就很容易悄悄的溜出来。享受着黑暗所赐予的私密和自由,而这在有电的时期是很难想象的。披着神奇的隐身斗篷,你可以为所欲为而不用担心父母,邻居或者秘密警察那警惕的目光。我遇到很多北朝鲜人,他们告诉我如何努力学会去喜欢黑暗,但是留给我最深印象的还是一个十几岁的女孩和她男友的故事。十二岁那一年,她遇到了临镇一个大她三岁的男孩。在北朝鲜拜占庭式的社会管理体系中,她家处于很低的阶层,因而,两人公开在一起的话,不仅会毁掉男孩的前程,也对女孩的清白名声不好。因此,他们只能在黑暗中长久的散步约会。除此之外,也没什么事情可做。他们最初的交往开始于九十年代初期,那个时候由于缺乏电力,餐厅或者电影院都关门歇业了。他们会在晚饭后见面。女孩告诉男友不要敲前门,这样会有被她的姐姐、弟弟或者那些爱多管闲事的邻居们发现的危险。他们都挤在一个狭长的建筑里,屋后是户外厕所,由很多家人共享。房子由一座高仅及人视线的围墙同街面隔开。男孩在墙后发现了一块地方,当天色暗下来之后,在这里没有人会注意到他。邻居们洗碗或者冲厕所的哗哗声掩盖了他的脚步声。接下来,他要做的只是等待,这可能是一小时,两小时甚至三小时。这没关系,北朝鲜的生活节奏很慢,也没有人有手表。一旦摆脱家人,女孩会马上出现。步入户外,凝视着前面的黑暗,起初看不到他,但是她能感觉到他就在附近。她不用为化妆而烦恼,黑暗中没有人需要化妆。有时候她就穿着自己的校服,那是一件裁剪适当的宝蓝色裙子,刚刚好掩住膝盖。白衬衣,配着红色的蝴蝶结。所有的衣服都是由一种爱起皱的化纤面料裁剪而成。女孩还没有到为穿着打扮而烦恼的年纪。起初,他们只是默默的走着,接着他们开始窃窃私语,当他们离开了村庄,完全放松在黑暗里之后,耳语就变成...

——引自第5页


政府值得抱怨的地方越多,就越要确保没有人抱怨

——引自第46页

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