遥远的南方天空 Faraway the Southern Sky

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A biographical historical fiction retelling of Ho Chi Minh’s immigration and radical life in underground Paris in the 1920s

Fleeing persecution in Indochina, the young Ho Chi Minh arrived in Paris as World War I was sputtering to a close. A painfully shy twentysomething who stammered when he spoke in public, he joined the shadowy figures of the demimonde, the radicals, poor artists, prostitutes, the luckless, and rebellious.

Six years later, he boarded a train bound for the young Soviet Union as the fiery, passionate leader of the Vietnamese independence movement and a founder of the French Communist Party. He had lived under various pseudonyms in a succession of seedy apartments. There had been arrests and beatings, jobs in restaurants and photo shops, revolutionary writing in the Bibliotheque Nationale, and meetings with Chaplin and Colette, all while being dogged by French spies—much of what we know about the young man’s Paris years is thanks to that surveillance, down to accounts of arguments he had with friends at home.

Searching for traces of the past in the streets of today, Joseph Andras hears echoes of other angry histories, from terror attacks to tent encampments to the protests of the Gilets jaunes. This intensely lyrical, genre-bending book is a meditation on what could be called the grandeur of the poor, the free, the outcast, and the rebellious—people who might not find a place in history books but without whom history could not be written.

一部传记历史小说，重述了胡志明20世纪20年代移民巴黎和在巴黎地下的激进生活。年轻的胡志明逃离印度支那的迫害，在第一次世界大战即将结束时抵达巴黎。他是一个极度腼腆的二十多岁年轻人，在公共场合讲话时结结巴巴，他加入了半上流社会、激进分子、穷艺术家、妓女、倒霉蛋和叛逆者的行列。

六年后，他登上了一列开往年轻苏联的火车，成为越南独立运动的热情领袖和法国共产党的创始人。他曾用各种化名住在一连串破旧的公寓里。他曾被捕、被殴打，在餐馆和照相馆工作，在法国国家图书馆撰写革命性文章，与卓别林和科莱特会面，同时还遭到法国间谍的跟踪——我们对这位年轻人在巴黎生活的了解，很大程度上要归功于这些监视，甚至包括他与家乡朋友的争吵。

约瑟夫·安德拉斯在今天的街道上寻找过去的痕迹，听到了其他愤怒历史的回声，从恐怖袭击到帐篷营地，再到黄背心抗议。这本充满诗意、跨流派的书是对穷人、自由人、被抛弃者和叛逆者的伟大沉思——这些人可能在历史书中找不到一席之地，但没有他们，历史就无法书写。

作者简介 · · · · · ·

Joseph Andras is the author of the novels Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us, Ainsi nous leur faisons la guerre, and Au loin le ciel du Sud. Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us was adapted for the cinema (as Faithful) by Hélier Cisterne and was awarded the Prix Goncourt for First Novel. But Andras refused the prize, explaining his belief that “competition and rivalry were foreign to writing and creation”. He lives in Le Havre.

Simon Leser is a writer, critic, and translator currently living in New York, and working towards a doctorate in French literature at NYU.

约瑟夫·安德拉斯是小说《明天他们不敢谋杀我们》、《我们只管去战斗》和《南方的天空》的作者。《明天他们不敢谋杀我们》被埃利埃·西斯特纳改编为电影（原名《忠诚》），并荣获龚古尔处女作奖。但安德拉斯拒绝了该奖项，他解释说，他认为“竞争和对抗与写作和创作无关”。他住在勒阿弗尔。

西蒙·莱瑟是一位作家、评论家和翻译家，目前住在纽约，正在攻读纽约大学法国文学博士学位。

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