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.
朋友说这是他过去一年读过的最好的一本书,猜他是忍痛割爱送给我的。 文字很诙谐幽默,故事也很简单自然,但一切对我来讲都很新鲜。 回想春节时在拉萨的青旅,因为发烧在灯光昏暗的室内休息,晚上把双拼的木椅子挤在卫生间门口明亮的灯光中,裹着被子沉浸在他们挣扎的世界里。 ...
评分 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...
评分奎妮 “人口-在避难中心,我们这样称呼他们。那些住处被毁、无家可归、厚脸皮忍受世界被炸成碎片这一灾难的人们。那些让纸板棺材空着却挤满破旧学校教师的人,他们那悲惨的面容和肮脏的衣服,让刚从井下出来的矿工好像圣诞节的小精灵。他们呼拉一大片挤进来,你觉得自己好像是...
评分奎妮 “人口-在避难中心,我们这样称呼他们。那些住处被毁、无家可归、厚脸皮忍受世界被炸成碎片这一灾难的人们。那些让纸板棺材空着却挤满破旧学校教师的人,他们那悲惨的面容和肮脏的衣服,让刚从井下出来的矿工好像圣诞节的小精灵。他们呼拉一大片挤进来,你觉得自己好像是...
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评分小说很好,可惜翻译质量最多只能算一般吧。
评分这种小说看的比较少,感觉还是看不下去.....
评分#LI204-04: Collapsing The Empire# “All night I waited for courage or despair to overwhelm to me. To slip me into the navy sea. But neither came."
评分#LI204-04: Collapsing The Empire# “All night I waited for courage or despair to overwhelm to me. To slip me into the navy sea. But neither came."
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