
7月24日中午,我们来到了有着“神的后花园”之称的禾木村。这是山谷中的一个美丽的村落。这里居住着图瓦人。图瓦人据说是蒙古族的一支,人口数量已经及其稀少了。他们还保留着其古老的生活方式。山青水绿人朴实,颇有世外桃源之感~~~

当然,不断开发的旅游业还是对当地人的生活有着极大的影响。观光者总是希望看到原始的不受干扰和污染的景观和人文状态;当地人则努力想要改变他们自身的生活条件。这是一对矛盾。好在直觉认为,到目前为止,这里控制的还很好。
Debut novelist Tatjani Soli has been announced as the winner of Britain’s oldest literary award.

Tatjani Soli won the prize for her debut novel The Lotus Eaters
The James Tait Black Memorial awards are given to one work of fiction and one work of biography each year.
Theatre critic Hilary Spurling claimed the biography prize for her book Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China.
American author Tatjani Soli won the fiction prize for her first novel The Lotus Eaters, which is set in the final days of the Vietnam War.
Previous winners include Ian McEwan, Cormac McCarthy and A S Byatt.
The winners of the prizes – awarded annually by the University of Edinburgh – were announced at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
They are the only major British book awards judged by scholars and students of literature.
Also shortlisted for the £10,000 fiction prize this year were debut novelists Julie Orringer and Michael Nath, and acclaimed writer David Mitchell.
The biography shortlist included studies of Henry Ford by Greg Grandin, of EM Forster by Wendy Moffat and an autobiography by renowned Scottish author Alisdair Gray.
The James Tait Black Prizes were founded in 1919 by Janet Coats, the widow of publisher James Tait Black, to commemorate her husband’s love of books.
【资料来源:BBC新闻】