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血与蜜之地:穿越巴尔干的旅程

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继《失落的卫星》后,刘子超最新硬核游记,跃入东西文明的过渡地带。

从北到南,由冬入春 ,穿越流着血与蜜的巴尔干半岛。8个国家,23个城镇,再度见证地球另一面的细碎和广阔。

游荡在旧梦与新愁之间,徘徊在过去与未来,刘子超沿着现代历史开始的道路,穿越火线,经历那些最浓烈的爱恨,自我的挣扎。酷儿与诗人,难民和毒贩,凶手和受害者,信徒与商人,悉数登场。一本四处漫游的旅行文学,却讲了一个个寻找家园的故事。

在斯洛文尼亚,闯入一场诗歌沙龙,在这个小到容易错过的国度里,看见诗人用语言重建家园的努力。在克罗地亚的边城,看见昔日帝国的余晖,在一个老侍者身上找到过去的优雅。在黑山,碰到为美国比萨店当接线员的女生,她惊讶于美国人的胃口,却无法亲口尝尝比萨的味道。遇到塞尔维亚的电商教父,他感受着全球化的浪潮,眼里的世界平滑且没有任何阻力。碰见希腊经济危机下成长的一代,他们喊着左翼口号,大声地说:“我们也是巴尔干国家。”

巴尔干变得不只是一个地理概念,更像一个形容词,充满伤痛、挣扎、求索和希冀的复杂含义。穿越历史漫长的阴影,抵达布满弹孔的时间现场,一路收集飘零人的血色故事,去探索一个更具普遍性的问题,一个始于巴尔干却与我们每个人都相关的问题:在充满不确定性的当下,我们何处为家?

400 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2024

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100 reviews
November 3, 2025
History is never objective so is nationalism, hence I appreciate even more how he frames the traveling experience as a sympathetic bystander.
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172 reviews
March 8, 2025
What is home?

Having seen different landscapes and encountered strangers of various ethnicities and religions, the book focuses on “nationalism.” In Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari elevates humanity’s “ability to imagine” to an extraordinary level, suggesting it is the key distinction between humans and animals. This idea runs throughout this book.

Although I often wanted to criticize the author, Liu Zichao, for merely rehashing information from Wikipedia, it’s still impressive how he managed to convey a subtle sense of emptiness in a travelogue. People are willing to pay unimaginable costs to construct a self-identity from nothing, and this identity is merely a fragment of historical truth, sometimes even distorted to maintain the interests of a few.

Traveling to more places and meeting more people, perhaps we get a little closer to our true selves through the reflection of the outside world. Put on Chen Qi Zhen’s The Meaning of Travel!

何以为家?

看过不同的风景和不同民族、宗教信仰的陌生人,书里把重点放在“民族主义”。《人类简史》里把人类“虚构”的能力拔到特别的高度,简直就是人和动物能区分开的关键。这个想法在本书里贯彻到底。
虽然我读的时候经常想吐槽作者刘子超是在搬运维基百科,但能把一本旅行文学写出淡淡的空虚感还是很厉害的。人为了从虚无中构建出的自我认同,可以付出难以想象的代价,而这种认同只是来自历史真相的一个切面,甚至为了维护少数人的利益遭到过扭曲。
走更多地方,遇到更多的人,在外界的映照下,或许离真正的自己更近一些。陈绮贞《旅行的意义》放起来!
55 reviews
December 5, 2025
写得很好,看得很舒服。看完的体会是,在目前逐渐分裂的世界,巴尔干曾经发生的事情像是一个预演。衷心希望我们不要重蹈巴尔干的覆辙。

本书后记写于伊拉克。有点期待下一本书了。催更!
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November 21, 2024
和之前的《午夜降临前抵达》和《失落的卫星》比,没有什么突破,略感失望。
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