《一千种绿，一万种蓝》“在我的孩提时代，我的母亲和一个英国人私奔了，这在小镇上人尽皆知。事实上，那个男人是德国人。但在那个年代的印度小镇上，几乎所有白皮肤的外国人都被认为是英国人。”
少时的嘉亚特里曾跟随父亲乘船前往印尼巴厘岛，并结识了诗人泰戈尔和长年旅居巴厘岛的德国艺术家瓦尔特·施皮斯，这段旅程久久镌刻在她的生命里。父亲死后，像每一个传统印度女人那样，嘉亚特里被家庭安排结婚，直到有一天，施皮斯再度出现在小镇上。
被遗弃的孩子成为一名古怪的园艺学家，终生沉溺在对母亲的回忆和等待之中，倾心于静默的植物。他想要获知的秘密，就藏在一包往返于印度和巴厘岛的陈年信件之中。
作者简介
安努拉达·洛伊（AnuradhaRoy，1967—），印度当代最重要的小说家之一，曾在加尔各答大学和剑桥大学学习英国文学，居住在喜马拉雅山麓的一座小镇上。
现已出版五部小说。2015年出版《在木星上沉睡》，获南亚文学奖并入围布克奖；2018年出版《一千种绿，一万种蓝》，入围国际都柏林文学奖决选名单，获印度最为权威的文学奖项——国家文学学院大奖。
译者：谭雪冉，北京大学外国语学院南亚学系印度语言文学专业硕士，北京外国语大学印地语专业本科，曾赴印度圣雄甘地国际印地语大学学习交流。
"When I was a child, my mother ran away with an Englishman, as everyone in the town knew. As a matter of fact, the man was German. But in small towns in India in those days, almost all fair-skinned foreigners were assumed to be British."
As a young girl, she accompanied her father on a boat trip to Bali, Indonesia, where she met poet Rabindranath Tagore and German artist Walter Spieth, who lived in Bali for many years, a journey that has long been engraved in her life. After her father's death, Gayatri, like every traditional Indian woman, was arranged by her family to marry, until one day Spieth reappeared in the town.
The abandoned child becomes an eccentric horticulturist, obsessed with memories and waits for his mother all his life, and devoted to silent plants. The secret he wanted to know was hidden in a packet of aged letters sent back and forth between India and Bali.
About the author
AnuradhaRoy (1967 -), one of the most important contemporary Indian novelists, studied English literature at the universities of Calcutta and Cambridge and lives in a small town in the foothills of the Himalayas.
Five novels have been published. Sleeping on Jupiter, published in 2015, won the South Asian Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; In 2018, he published A Thousand Kinds of Green, 10,000 kinds of Blue, which was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and won the National Literary Academy Award, the most authoritative literary award in India.
Tan Xueran has a master's degree in Indian Language and Literature from the Department of South Asian Studies, School of Foreign Studies, Peking University, and a bachelor's degree in Hindi from Beijing Foreign Studies University. She once studied at Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University in India.
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