《丝之谜》的人性主题与历史记忆

The Subject of Humanity and Historical Memory in The Harmony of Silk Factory

《丝之谜》(又名《和谐丝庄》)是旅英马来西亚华裔作家欧大旭的处女作,获惠特布列首部小说奖。它以上个世纪40年代的马来亚为背景,描述了殖民地势力和日本帝国主义夹攻下复杂的人性、多变的命运。作者采用三个不同的叙述角度去诠释主角的过去,小说以小见大,明显的华人标志,隐藏着的马来亚共产党身影,无不在唤醒个人、民族甚至国家的历史记忆。

The Harmony of Silk Factory is the debut novel of Tash Aw,who grew up in Malaysia,and is now living in London.This book won the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2005.The structure of the story set in the 1940s on Malay Peninsula is divided into 3 parts.Through multi-layered narrations,this book presents rarely seen Chinese capitalists,political communist activists and the complexity of identity in the Southeast Asian society during the British colonial rule and Japanese occupation.The present author aims to expose the real facts and truth that Malaysia＇s government tries to avoid.