商品簡介
Describing himself as "neither a scholar nor a journalist but simply a traveler who bears a longstanding grudge against borders," Alter (writing and humanistic studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), presents an account of his journey across the contentious border between India and Pakistan in 1997 (the 50th anniversary of Partition), interviewing people from all classes and castes and questioning national and individual identity, the territorial imperatives of history, and the mythology of borders. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Stephen Alter is Writer-in-Residence in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An accomplished writer in both fiction and nonfiction, he is the author of four novels and the memoir All the Way to Heaven: An American Boyhood in the Himalayas.
