The Night Diary 2019年纽银奖

The Night Diary - Veera Hiranandani 

Kids, Ages 8-10
The Night Diary
By: Veera Hiranandani
Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
Release date: 03-06-18
Language: English
Publisher's Summary
In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India's partition and of one girl's journey to find a new home in a divided country
It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders.   
Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't know where she belongs or what her country is anymore. When Papa decides it's too dangerous to stay in what is now Pakistan, Nisha and her family become refugees and embark first by train but later on foot to reach her new home. The journey is long, difficult, and dangerous, and after losing her mother as a baby, Nisha can't imagine losing her homeland, too. But even if her country has been ripped apart, Nisha still believes in the possibility of putting herself back together.     
Told through Nisha's letters to her mother, The Night Diary is a heartfelt story of one girl's search for home, for her own identity...and for a hopeful future.

本书The Night Diary《深夜的日记》讲述的是一个关于寻找家、寻找身份认同、寻找未来的感人故事，获得2019年纽伯瑞儿童文学奖银奖。尼莎和她的家人逃离家园，走向不确定的未来。作者以前所未有的平衡感和敏感性描绘了1947年印度的分裂。尼莎，通过写给已故母亲的简短日记，逐渐发现自己身为印度教徒和穆斯林这双重身份的复杂之美。