中英对照读新闻》Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize with dystopian novel ’Prophet Song’保罗．林区反乌托邦小说「先知之歌」赢得英国布克奖
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爱尔兰作家保罗林区赢得2023英国布克奖。（路透）(photo:LTN)◎林家宇
Irish writer Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize on Sunday for his novel ’Prophet Song’, the story of a family and a country on the brink of catastrophe as an imaginary Irish government veers towards tyranny.
爱尔兰作家保罗．林区以小说「先知之歌」赢得2023布克奖。该书讲述一个家庭和国家在一个虚构的爱尔兰政府转向独裁之际陷入灾难边缘的故事。
The novel, Lynch’s fifth, seeks to show the unrest in Western democracies and their indifference towards disasters such as the implosion of Syria.
林区的第五部小说试图展现西方民主国家的动盪和他们对诸如叙利亚内乱等灾难的漠不关心。
"From that first knock at the door, ’Prophet Song’ forces us out of our complacency as we follow the terrifying plight of a woman seeking to protect her family in an Ireland descending into totalitarianism," Esi Edugyan, chair of the Booker’s 2023 judges, said.
2023年布克奖评审团主席艾昔．艾杜扬说：「从那第一响敲门声响起，随着我们深入一名女性在爱尔兰转变为专制主义的同时试图保护家庭的恐怖困境，『先知之歌』迫使我们从自得意满中抽离」。
"I wanted to deepen the reader’s immersion to such a degree that by the end of the book, they would not just know, but feel this problem for themselves," Lynch said in comments published on the Booker Prize website.
布克奖网站刊登的林区感言写道，「我想要让读者身历其境，其程度会让他们在本书结尾时不只是明白，也能切身感受到这个问题」。
新闻辞典
veer：动词，转向、转变。例句：Germany veered to the fascism when Nazi took the power in 1930s.（德国在1930年代纳粹掌权后转变为法西斯主义）
implosion：名词，崩溃、崩盘。例句：This country is on the verge of implosion because of the civil war.（这个国家因内战处于崩溃边缘）
