Purge
- 作者:Lola (TRN),Oksanen,Sofi/ Rogers
- 出版社:Black Cat
- 出版日期:2010-04-06
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:0802170773
- ISBN13:9780802170774
- 裝訂:平裝 / 13.3 x 20.3 x 2.5 cm / 普通級 / 譯本
一九九二年,蘇聯政權垮臺,愛沙尼亞人民歡慶俄國人離開,但年邁的愛莉德選擇窩居僻鄉,深居簡出。某日,一個年輕女孩突然闖入愛莉德的院子,她衣衫不整,渾身爛泥,像隻被丟棄的小動物。女孩那驚懼的眼神、緊繃的肌肉,喚起愛莉德過往的記憶:唯有瀕臨死亡威脅,才能塑造出這種身體。她想知道,這女孩到底經歷了什麼?
五十多年前,少女愛莉德與姊姊英格住在愛沙尼亞。愛莉德遇見愛國青年漢斯,頓時墜入愛河。然而,他的目光只停留在姊姊身上,痛苦的愛莉德強壓心中妒忌,等待命運對她伸出援手。到了一九四○年代,蘇維埃紅軍勢力進入愛沙尼亞,漢斯成為被剷除的目標,愛莉德決心要保護漢斯,就算必須背上羞辱,也在所不惜……
《救贖》描寫在環境壓迫下,兩代女性為了生存必須面臨的挑戰。奧克莎儂以二十世紀紛亂的愛沙尼亞為背景,用舞臺劇換幕的方式,將兩個女人的過往今昔交錯層疊,拼湊出一段令人顫慄、感嘆又無奈的家族故事。儘管時間流逝,政權更替,但歷史終將在人的記憶裡留下永恆的痕跡。
Soon to be published in twenty-five languages, Sofi Oksanen’s award-winning novel Purge is a breathtakingly suspenseful tale of two women dogged by their own shameful pasts and the dark, unspoken history that binds them.
When Aliide Truu, an older woman living alone in the Estonian countryside, finds a disheveled girl huddled in her front yard, she suppresses her misgivings and offers her shelter. Zara is a young sex-trafficking victim on the run from her captors, but a photo she carries with her soon makes it clear that her arrival at Aliide’s home is no coincidence. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in a complex arithmetic of suspicion and revelation to distill each other’s motives; gradually, their stories emerge, the culmination of a tragic family drama of rivalry, lust, and loss that played out during the worst years of Estonia’s Soviet occupation.
Sofi Oksanen establishes herself as one the most important voices of her generation with this intricately woven tale, whose stakes are almost unbearably high from the first page to the last. Purge is a fiercely compelling and damning novel about the corrosive effects of shame, and of life in a time and place where to survive is to be.
★本書原文書名為: Puhdistus
★本書中譯版《救贖》由天下文化出版。
作者簡介
蘇菲.奧克莎儂Sofi Oksanen
近年歐洲最受矚目的文學新星。《救贖》讓她拿下了北歐所有重要文學大獎,包括:芬蘭國家文學獎、魯內貝格獎、芬蘭讀書俱樂部獎、米卡.沃爾塔利獎、卡勒維.安提獎等。同時,她還榮獲有「北歐的諾貝爾文學獎」之稱的北歐理事會文學獎,並成為該獎有史以來最年輕的獲獎者。《救贖》在全世界賣出超過四十國版權,熱潮從北歐延燒至歐洲大陸,不僅獲得歐洲書獎和法國費米娜獎的肯定,更創下法國法雅客(FNAC)小說獎的先例,成為首位非以法文原創的得獎者。
一九七七年,奧克莎儂出生於芬蘭,母親是愛沙尼亞裔,父親是芬蘭人。她在二○○三年出版第一部小說《史達林的乳牛》(Stalin’s Cows),內容充滿爭議,受到各界討論,並獲「魯內貝格獎」提名(此為芬蘭最具聲譽的文學獎之一)。兩年後,奧克莎儂順利出版第二部小說《小珍恩》(Baby Jane)。
二○○七年,她創作的劇本「救贖」(Puhdistus)登上芬蘭國家戲劇院,甚至成為芬蘭國家戲劇院的常備劇碼。二○○八年,同名小說《救贖》出版,一炮而紅,久踞芬蘭暢銷排行榜,獲獎無數,並改編為電影及歌劇。芬蘭《首都報》讚譽此書「宏偉、令人顫慄,是每個人都夢寐以求想閱讀、書寫,並出版的小說」。奧克莎儂於二○○九年獲愛沙尼亞《信使報》選為「年度風雲人物」,是芬蘭最有潛力的年輕作家。
Sofi Oksanen was born in Finland and a former graduate of the Finnish Theatre Academy. She is the author of three novels. Purge is her first novel to be published in English translation.
She lives in Helsinki.