Andrea Levy was an English novelist, born in London to Jamaican parents. Her novels chronicled the experiences of the post-World War II generation of Jamaican immigrants in Britain. She was one of the first black British authors to achieve both critical and commercial success. Her novel Small Island won several major literary prizes: the Orange Prize for women's fiction, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year award.
Winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction A Picador Original Trade Paperback Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmer's daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and courage, until the unexpected arrival of her husband, Bernard, who returns from combat with issues of his own to resolve. Told in these four voices, "Small Island "is a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers---in short, an encapsulation of that most American of experiences: the immigrant's life.
如果不是BC我是不会去看小岛这个迷你剧,就更不会对原著产生兴趣。 花了两个半小时看完了整本书,不能说每字每句都仔细看了,也至少不是囫囵吞枣。 原著中的每个主要出场人物都有第一人称的表述,将人物背景及在那个年代所经历的事情一一摆在读者面前,人物丰满鲜活。无论多么...
评分好久没读过"悲喜剧"式的小说了,通篇架构在2战和种族移民的背景下,所以记述的事几乎全是让人心生酸楚的苦事,可读下去后没有沉重感,相反却有些振奋,这主要功劳归功于文字的灵巧生动,让每个人在一堆能逼人狂抽烟的破事前表现出了真实的可爱. 故事情节,构造就不多说了,反正读...
评分 评分这是一部有关黑人与白人种族主义、殖民主义、战争与偏见题材的小说。《小岛》的背景,摆放在一九四八年的伦敦。这年的六月份,曾有一艘“顺风帝国号”驶入伦敦的蒂尔伯里港区。船上,载了四百九十二名来自西印度群岛的乘客,他们是加勒比地区向英国的第一批大规模移民...
评分Not worth the time. Really bad writing and too much cliche.
评分通俗小说水平,套路太明显,佳作不应该有生硬的转折。
评分Not worth the time. Really bad writing and too much cliche.
评分不喜欢小说的文风 看到第60页不想继续看下去
评分ICC课要求看的==
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