德里克-奥乌苏(Derek Owusu)内心深处渴望了解母亲在他出生前的生活,因此他对母亲的人生旅程进行了有力的想象。当她从加纳来到英国,在一个陌生且常常孤独的环境中为人父母时,几代人都感受到了流离失所的影响。《Losing the Plot》通过母亲和儿子的视角进行讲述,既有原始的情感,又不乏趣味,奥乌苏尝试用各种形式来拼凑的经历,并探索我们分享和讲述自己的故事与不分享的故事同样重要。
DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023
LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023
LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE - FICTION 2023
Driven by a deep-seated desire to understand his mother’s life before he was born, Derek Owusu offers a powerful imagining of her journey. As she moves from Ghana to the UK and navigates parenthood in a strange and often lonely environment, the effects of displacement are felt across generations. Told through the eyes of both mother and son, Losing the Plot is at once emotionally raw and playful as Owusu experiments with form to piece together the experience and explore how the stories we share and tell ourselves are just as vital as the ones we don't.
作者简介
德里克-奥乌苏(Derek Owusu)是北伦敦的作家、诗人和播客。2016 年,他加入了屡获殊荣的文学播客 Mostly Lit。他还为企鹅兰登书屋和 Freemantle Media 制作了广受欢迎的《This Is Spoke》播客。他曾为《Big Issue》、《i》等杂志撰稿。他撰写的关于黑人男性和不安全感的文章是2018年《媒体多元化》上阅读量第二高的文章,他撰写的关于语言的文章被BBC《新闻之夜》选中制作成纪录短片。他为尼凯什-舒克拉(Nikesh Shukla)和克莱尔-赫汉(Claire Heuchan)所著的《什么是种族》(What Is Race)一书供稿,并在《好杂志》(Good Journal)上发表过诗作。德里克还整理、编辑了《Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space》一书。他著有《让我想起》(That Reminds Me)一书,该书获得了德斯蒙德-埃利奥特奖(Desmond Elliott Prize)。
Derek Owusu is a writer, poet and podcaster from North London. In 2016, he joined the multi-award winning literature podcast Mostly Lit. He also produced the well-received This Is Spoke podcast for Penguin Random House and Freemantle Media. He has written for the Big Issue, i and more. His essay on Black men and insecurities was the second-most read article on Media Diversified in 2018, and his essay on language was picked up by BBC Newsnight to be turned into a short documentary. He contributed to What Is Race by Nikesh Shukla and Claire Heuchan and has had poems published by the Good Journal. Derek also collated, edited and contributed to Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space. He is the author of That Reminds Me, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize.
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