The Other Half of You by Michael Mohammed Ahmad 《另一半你》

The Other Half of You by Michael Mohammed Ahmad

Michael Mohammed Ahmad is the founding director of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and editor of the critically acclaimed anthology After Australia (Affirm Press, 2020). Mohammed's debut novel, The Tribe (Giramondo, 2014), won the 2015 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelists of the Year Award. His second novel, The Lebs (Hachette Australia, 2018), won the 2019 NSW Premier's Multicultural Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Mohammed received his Doctorate of Creative Arts from Western Sydney University in 2017.

The Other Half of You is Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s third novel of an enthralling trilogy of autofiction spanning The Tribe and The Lebs. This novel continues the story of Bani Adam, Ahmad’s alter ego, who is a young Muslim Arab-Australian writer from Western Sydney. Bani now has a university degree behind him, as well as a relationship with a woman that he was forced to abandon due to family pressure. Bani Adam has known all his life what was expected of him. To marry the right kind of girl. To make the House of Adam proud. But Bani wanted more than this - he wanted to make his own choices. Being the first in his Australian Muslim family to go to university, he could see a different way. Written as a stream-of-consciousness letter to his son, The Other Half of You recounts Bani’s journey as he leaves behind a girl he loves and marries one he doesn’t at his family’s behest, trying to live a life he never wanted without cracking under the pressure of familial and social expectations.

迈克尔·穆罕默德·艾哈迈德小说《另一半你》简介

《另一半你》通过主人公巴尼·亚当的婚恋故事，将阿拉伯穆斯林不同教派之间水火不容的关系和黎巴嫩移民在澳大利亚饱受白人种族主义歧视的社会现实十分巧妙地交织在一起，向读者展示出一幅难得一见、充满哲思的风情画。尽管《另一半你》包含了各种各样的痛苦，但它是一本非常乐观的书。书中即使最丑陋的角色，也只是有缺陷的人。他们在自己的认知范围内尽最大的努力，完善自己。迈克尔·穆罕默德·艾哈迈德说：“作为一个有创造力的作家，我总是尽最大的努力去发掘每个角色的人性，试图把他们描绘成复杂的、三维的、有血有肉的人物：有缺陷、有优点、滑稽的、美丽的、无知的、智慧的。”《另一半你》确实是一部引人入胜的好书。

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