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| گوینده: | David Sedaris |
| مدت: | 7 hours and 26 minutes |
دیوید سداریس در جدیدترین مجموعهی مقالات خود، The Land and Its People، با نگاهی طنزآمیز و درعینحال عمیق به تجربهی انسان بودن در جهانی پرماجرا میپردازد. او این بار نقش یک مراقب را پس از جراحی همسرش تجربه میکند و با دوستش داون به چالشهای عجیبی دست میزند . سداریس که همواره به لیست کشورهایی که رفته اضافه میکند، سوار بر اسبی در گواتمالا میشود، در واتیکان لباس روحانی میخرد و به سفری در کنیا میرود بدون آنکه حتی یک عکس بگیرد .
در این میان، او با واقعیتهای تلخ زندگی مانند از دست دادن عزیزان روبرو میشود، اما همچنان توانایی شگفتانگیزی در یافتن لحظات ناب و خندهدار در دل روزمرگیها دارد . مقالات این کتاب که گاه تند و گاه لطیف هستند، نشان میدهند که چگونه میتوان با چشمانی باز و قلبی کنجکاو، شگفتیهای زندگی و انسانها را تماشا کرد و از آنها لذت برد .
In this new collection, recorded live, on-location from Massachusetts to California, David Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, a lifelong friend, in essays that are “among the best of his career” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) .
In The Land and Its People, Sedaris investigates what it means to be a traveler, a brother, a lifelong friend. Trying on the role of caretaker after his boyfriend Hugh’s hip-replacement surgery, he both succeeds and fails. He covers ground with his friend Dawn and challenges her to eat a truck tire. A ambivalent Duolingo bot becomes his unlikely confidante as he attempts to describe his family in a foreign language .
Ever adding to his list of “Countries I Have Been To,” he rides a horse named Tequila in Guatemala, buys a bespoke priest’s cassock in Vatican City, and goes on safari in Kenya without taking a single photo .
Time takes its toll: scrolling through his address book, he counts those he couldn’t bear to outlive, and realizes how many are already gone. He is bitten by a dog and insulted by a wee train passenger. A woman on the street late at night either sexually harasses him or doesn’t. It’s easy to agree with the lady waving a sign that reads, “Enough Is Enough.” And yet, life holds much to delight in: the massive testicles of a ram, a trip abroad with his sisters, a really excellent reptile video, a pair of well-made cotton underpants .
Throughout these essays—at once acerbic and tender, playful and profound—Sedaris shows how much there is to marvel at when you keep your head up and your eyes open, observing with warmth and curiosity our fascinating human species and the lands we inhabit .
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