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Enrique's Journey
出版社： Random House, Inc. (International Division)
書林書號：
20114084
作者：
Nazario, Sonia
定價：
630
會員價：
$536
ISBN：
9780812971781
出版年份：
2007
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
300
  • 本書介紹
被天堂遺忘的孩子：一場重現愛與勇氣的冒險之旅

　　★屬於21世紀的奧德賽！扣人心弦、驚心動魄的史詩般旅程！
　　★根據「普立茲特寫寫作獎及攝影獎」系列報導寫成，光芒四射的報導文學！
　　★在台灣邁向新移民不斷遷入的處境時，《被天堂遺忘的孩子》相當值得我們探討跟深思！

　　「求求祢上帝──別讓我就這麼死了，我還想見到媽媽。」

　　『這不只是一個故事，而是每位第三世界孩子的真實心聲。』

　　『在偷渡的死亡列車上，唯一能依靠的，只有自己的機智、意志和勇氣……』

　　因為窮到養不起孩子，安立奎的母親在他五歲時，忍痛拋下子女，遠赴美國工作。漫長的十一個年頭過去，極度思念母親的安立奎決定動身去尋找母親。帶著母親的電話號碼，他獨自一人從宏都拉斯出發。身上僅有五十七塊美金的他，只有一種方法能夠進入美國──那就是偷搭人稱「死亡列車」的載貨列車，沿著墨西哥鐵路非法潛入美國。

　　在黑幫、惡盜和貪污警察層層環伺的路途上，安立奎和其他偷渡的孩童成為惡徒眼中的獵物，隨時都可能慘遭搶劫剝削、毒打殘殺；他們攀附在車頂、車廂邊，在行進的火車上跳上跳下，面臨著被碾斷手腳，甚至喪失生命的危險。

　　每年中南美洲都有數千名的偷渡兒童，湧入美國尋母；這些孩子──有些甚至只有七歲大，有的曾被遣返達二十七次，他們勇闖死亡險境、歷經無法想像的苦難，唯一能依靠的，只有自己的機智、意志和勇氣……

　　這個由普立茲新聞獎得主索妮雅．納薩瑞歐所著，根據《洛杉磯時報》系列報導而寫成的故事，生動刻畫了十六歲男孩安立奎跨國尋母的過程，使世人了解，在我們不熟悉的南美洲，有這麼一群孩子，身無分文，手無寸鐵，僅憑意志力和勇氣，單槍匹馬踏上這段嚴峻不已的旅程。

　　這是個真實的故事，也是他們共同的史詩故事。

In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. 
When Enrique is five years old, his mother, Lourdes, too poor to feed her children, leaves Honduras to work in the United States. The move allows her to send money back home to Enrique so he can eat better and go to school past the third grade.
Lourdes promises Enrique she will return quickly. But she struggles in America. Years pass. He begs for his mother to come back. Without her, he becomes lonely and troubled. When she calls, Lourdes tells him to be patient. Enrique despairs of ever seeing her again. After eleven years apart, he decides he will go find her.
Enrique sets off alone from Tegucigalpa, with little more than a slip of paper bearing his mother’s North Carolina telephone number. Without money, he will make the dangerous and illegal trek up the length of Mexico the only way he can–clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains.
With gritty determination and a deep longing to be by his mother’s side, Enrique travels through hostile, unknown worlds. Each step of the way through Mexico, he and other migrants, many of them children, are hunted like animals. Gangsters control the tops of the trains. Bandits rob and kill migrants up and down the tracks. Corrupt cops all along the route are out to fleece and deport them. To evade Mexican police and immigration authorities, they must jump onto and off the moving boxcars they call El Tren de la Muerte–The Train of Death. Enrique pushes forward using his wit, courage, and hope–and the kindness of strangers. It is an epic journey, one thousands of immigrant children make each year to find their mothers in the United States.
Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for feature writing and another for feature photography, Enrique’s Journey is the timeless story of families torn apart, the yearning to be together again, and a boy who will risk his life to find the mother he loves. 


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