An Australian writer and a Mexican scientist fall in love reading great Latin American books aloud. But it takes a decade of journeys across the region, together and apart, for them to learn to read each other.Requiem with Yellow Butterfliesis a love story and travel memoir that unfolds against the turbulent backdrop of Latin America in the 2000s. It takes us on a 1200-kilometre question-mark shaped loop through the newly socialist republics of the “pink tide,” to a requiem mass for Mexico’s disappeared and eventually back to Australia. Through evocative, unexpected pairings of southern hemisphere places and authors—Jose María Arguedas’s Andes and Judith Wright’s Cooloola coast, the Argentine pampa and the central Queensland brigalow country—the book explores distinct but parallel postcolonial literary traditions, the disordering state of love and the strangeness of coming home.

一位澳大利亚作家和一位墨西哥科学家爱上了大声朗读拉丁美洲的好书。但是，他们花了十年的时间穿越该地区，一起或分开，才学会了阅读对方。《黄蝴蝶的安魂曲》是一个爱情故事和旅行回忆录，在2000年代拉丁美洲动荡的背景下展开。它将我们带入一个1200公里长的问号型循环，穿过 "粉色浪潮 "的新社会主义共和国，到墨西哥失踪者的安魂弥撒，最终回到澳大利亚。通过对南半球的地方和作者进行令人回味的、意想不到的配对--Jose María Arguedas的安第斯山脉和Judith Wright的Cooloola海岸，阿根廷的Pampa和昆士兰中部的Brigalow国家，本书探讨了不同但平行的后殖民主义文学传统，爱情的不和谐状态和回家的陌生感。