由我和 KaHo Yu 合作拍攝書封的 "The Wish Maker" 終於上市了!!
數月前
知名出版商 Penguin Books India 主動與 KaHo 連絡
他們從 Flickr 看到了我們的重曝作品後 "Magic Night"
想向我們購買使用權並做為新書 "The Wish Maker" 的封面
而我和 KaHo 的名字也會印在書的封底上
Wow! 知道這個消息後 我們兩個都超驚訝和興奮!
真的沒想到這次的重曝合作會如此受到喜愛
從溝通到準備文件到收款
我們倆每天都抱著緊張又怕失望的心情期待著
昨天 "The Wish Maker" 終於上市了!
我想應該再過一陣子就可以收到屬於我們的那一本書!
其實這本由 Ali Sethi 所著作的 "The Wish Maker"
Penguin Books USA 在上個月已發行了第一版
我們這本則是第二版
目前Amazon 和博客萊都有販售第一版
只可惜的是沒有中文譯本
不過有興趣的朋友還是可以讀讀看!
我很感謝 KaHo 的無私和誠實
也很高興能和這樣優秀的 lomographer 合作
也謝謝 Penguin Books India 的賞賜
→ 放大看書封 ←
書籍介紹
Zaki Shirazi returns to Lahore to celebrate the wedding of his cousin
and childhood companion Samar Api (who has finally, it seems, found
her Amitabh). Home is not what it used to be; Musharraf is in power,
there has been a boom, and Lahore seems to have seen
‘too much too soon’. Zaki’s estrangement, amidst the flurry of wedding
preparations in the house he grew up in, takes him back to his past: his
childhood as a fatherless boy growing up in a household of outspoken women,
and his and Samar’s intertwined journeys from youth to adulthood.
As children, they often attended dangerous political protests with
Zaki’s journalist mother. Surrounded by the mysterious talk of adults,
only Zaki seemed to share his older cousin’s yearning for the perfect world.
Inspired by American soaps and Bollywood films that they watched together,
their world held the promise of all sorts of forbidden love. Then, when Zaki
supports one of Samar’s romantic schemes, the family suffers the disastrous
consequences. But as his fate diverges from Samar’s, he comes to
understand the world around him better, and to cherish the bonds that survive
the tugs of convention, time and history.
書評
‘The Wish Maker, in Ali Sethi’s mature and sure-handed prose, is
an engaging family saga, an absorbing coming-of-age story, and an
illuminating look at one of the world’s most turbulent regions. Ali Sethi
steadfastly resists the usual clichés about both Islam and his native
country. Instead, he offers a nuanced, often humorous, and always
novel look at life in modern day Pakistan’ —Khaled Hosseini, author of
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns
‘The Wish Maker is a confident and personal debut. Ali Sethi’s is a fresh
voice from a new generation of Pakistani novelists’ —Mohsin Hamid,
author of Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Penguin Books 的歷史
Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Lane's idea
was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a packet of cigarettes.
He also wanted them to be sold not only in bookshops but in railway stations,
general stores and corner shops. Its most emblematic products are its paperbacks.
The first Penguin paperbacks were published in 1935, but at first only as an imprint
of Bodley Head (of Vigo Street) with the books originally distributed from the crypt of
Holy Trinity Church Marylebone.
Today Penguin Books is the flagship imprint of the worldwide Penguin Group and
is owned by Pearson PLC. Penguin is the lead publisher for the United Kingdom,
New Zealand, Republic of Ireland, Australia and India.
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