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枷鎖中的眾神

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Category: Biography & Autobiography - Memoirs

這本感人至深的回憶錄由珍·古德作序,講述一位成功的記者兼電影製作人,在人生中感到缺少了什麼,最終在她童年家鄉印度喀拉拉邦的亞洲象倡導中找到了自己的使命。

「一個國家的偉大與其道德進步,可以從其對待動物的方式來判斷。」——聖雄甘地



大象是具有自我意識、有知覺的生物。牠們能夠感受並哀悼大象和人類的逝去。但儘管大象對人類展現了如此多的同理心,我們卻持續對這些關懷、有感知的生命施加痛苦與折磨。



2013年,桑吉塔·艾耶回到了她的童年家鄉印度喀拉拉邦。喀拉拉邦有超過700頭亞洲象,由個人和寺廟擁有,他們強迫這些大象在漫長、擁擠、喧鬧的節日中表演,虐待並束縛這些他們聲稱崇敬的動物,以換取觀光客和金錢。



當桑吉塔置身於這些神聖生物面前,親眼目睹牠們的痛苦時,她深深感受到與牠們的苦難相連。她自己也長期被束縛與破碎——受到印度父權教養的束縛,職場中許多被掩蓋的「我也是」時刻,以及沉默。現在,她要為大象、也為自己發聲。她將與牠們一同療癒。



這激發了她創作同名獲獎紀錄片,並為桑吉塔和大象在這一生中找到了新的使命。

Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

James ★★★★★

The foreword by Jane Goodall sets the tone perfectly for this memoir about a journalist who pivots to elephant advocacy. I finished it in two sittings, and the section on her time documenting Asian elephants in the wild stayed with me for days.

George ★★★★★

I picked this up expecting a typical memoir but the journalist's shift from covering stories to actually fighting for Asian elephants hit harder than I thought. The foreword by Jane Goodall sets the tone perfectly before you even reach chapter one.

Penelope Z. ★★★★★

I read the whole thing in two sittings, which I never do with memoirs. The foreword by Jane Goodall sets the tone perfectly, and the author's shift from journalism to fighting for Asian elephants honestly made me rethink what a meaningful career looks like.