HIND: OR THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 03100925C00009
English Summary/英文概要： This novel tells the story of a woman, Hanadi, born with phenomenal beauty, but stricken in adolescence by acromegaly - or
gigantism transforms into a monster, and is rejected by her mother, who has never accepted the loss, two years earlier, of her eldest child, the beautiful baby Hind. The mother, who regularly reshapes and reinvents her life, hides "the mutant" Hanadi in the attic of her kitchen, from the moment the phenomenal resemblance between the two little ones is no longer possible. The image blurs between the late Hind and her hideous mirror, for both mother and daughter…The teenager, alone, feeds herself with books and other publications from the random boxes and crates piled up in the attic, before fleeing from a city plagued by the stench of a civil war (which never ends) to France. As she wanders between Paris (and its suburbs) and Beirut (a working-class district), between love and the illnesses of love, the novel, constructed like a puzzle, opens with Hanadi’s return to her country, where she revisits her relationship with her mother, who died of Alzheimer’s, as well as the daily life of her city, transformed and disfigured like herself, and lost between a legendary past and a deformed present (like other Mediterranean cities)
The novel tells "its stories" only through the destinies of individuals, of modest background, who suffer, alone and unprepared, the blows of History without understanding its tenets (like the destiny of the absent father), in the blinding fog of oblivion, denial and violence…In cities also sick with gigantism...
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这部小说讲述了一位名叫汉迪的女性的故事：她生来拥有非凡的美貌，但在青春期却罹患了肢端肥大症——这种巨人症使她变得像怪物一般，因而遭到母亲的排斥；而母亲两年前刚失去长女——那位美丽的’baby Hind‘。这位母亲常年不断重塑和改造自己的生活；自这两个孩子之间再也无法保持如此惊人的相似度起，她便将“变异”的汉迪藏在了自家厨房的阁楼里。画面在已故的欣德与与她那面丑陋的镜子之间模糊交织——对于母女二人而言……这位少女独自一人，从堆放在阁楼里的杂乱纸箱和木箱中取回书籍及其他出版物来充饥，随后她逃离了这座饱受内战（这场战争永无休止）之苦的城市，前往法国。当主人公在巴黎（及其郊区）与贝鲁特（一个工人阶级聚居区）之间、在爱情与爱情带来的病痛之间徘徊时，这部小说宛如一幅拼图般展开——在那里，她重新审视了自己与因阿尔茨海默病去世的母亲之间的关系，也观察了这座城市的生活——这座城市如同她自身一般，已然发生蜕变与扭曲，迷失在传奇的过去与畸形的当下之间（与其他地中海城市如出一辙）。
这部小说仅通过普通百姓的命运来讲述“故事”——这些人物出身卑微，独自且毫无准备地承受着历史的重击，却未能理解历史的法则（譬如那位缺席父亲的命运）；他们身处遗忘、否认与暴力交织的蒙蔽迷雾之中……而城市本身也因“巨构主义”而病态不堪。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：• A young girl suffering of acromegalic gigantism
• A moving metaphorical novel
• Winner of the 2025 Zayed Book Award
2001 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
2016/2017 Al Owais Award for Literature
2015 Man Booker lnternationallonglist
2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Distinctions & recognitions
Hoda Barakat was decorated with the’Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’by the French cultural minister in February 2002. She also received the’Chevalier de l’Ordre du Merite National’2008
She has been or is presently on the advisory board of several magazines, including Qantara (Paris, 1997-2000), Mediterraneennes (Paris) and Da Qui (Bari, Italie) etc...
She was a resident at the Institut d’Etudes Avancees de Nantes from Nov. 2010 to March 2011.
She was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin for the acadeil1!c year 2011/2012 and the IAS CEU Budapest 2017/18
She is member of the prestigious" Montgomery Fellowship" Dartmouth since 2019.
About the Author/作者介绍： 胡达·巴拉卡特（阿拉伯语: هدى بركات；Hoda Barakat，1952— ）
黎巴嫩作家，旅居法国，阿拉伯离散文学代表人物。
她的作品常探讨创伤与战争等主题；其三部早期小说均由生活在黎巴嫩内战期间社会边缘地带的男性角色进行叙述。
以短篇小说集《访客》踏入文坛，凭长篇小说《炼笑石》斩获评论奖最佳长篇首作奖。后出版长篇小说《幻想的人》《耕水者》(Harit al-miyah)《这片土地上的王国》《夜间来信》，散文集《陌生女人的来信》，剧本《迪瓦万岁》《夜之将尽》等，先后斩获2001年纳吉布·马哈福兹文学奖、奥瓦斯文学奖、意大利双年展一等奖等，更是以《夜间来信》荣膺2019年国际阿拉伯小说奖。还曾入围2015年国际布克奖。Hoda Barakat
(born 1952) is a Lebanese novelist. She lived most of her early life in Beirut before moving to Paris, where she now resides. She has published six novels, two plays, a book of short stories, and a book of memoirs. Her works are originally written in Arabic and have been translated into English, Hebrew, French, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Romanian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, and Greek. Her work often explores themes of trauma and war; three of her early novels are narrated by male characters living in the margins of society during the Lebanese civil war. Her third novel, Harit al-miyah (The Tiller of Waters), won the 2001 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature Her 2019 novel Bareed Al-Lay! (The Night Mail) won the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：WORLD ARABIC to Dar Al Adab
WORLD ENGLISH to The New Press
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