Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her of the Underground Railroad and they plot their escape. Like Gulliver, Cora encounters different worlds on each leg of her journey.
Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors of black life in pre-Civil War America. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, winner of the 2016 National Book Award, and named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, as well as The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. He lives in New York City.
文/夏丽柠 莱克星顿的一声枪响,标志着美国人民踏上了争取独立自由的战场。1776年7月4日,在第二次大陆会议上,宣读了由托马斯·杰斐逊起草的《美国独立宣言》。文中明确指出,“我们认为这些真理是不可言喻的,人人生而平等,造物者赋予他们若干不可剥夺的权利,其中包括生命...
评分 评分 评分魔幻主义能不能这样用?震撼力与罪恶程度的真实性的是否应该协调?故事是加深了对历史的认识,还是成为了一些概念模型(i.e. manifest destiny, progress in god's name, white supremacy, sexual abuse) 的复印机?事件很重,劳动-欢乐在奴役-自由中的双重含义,为奴所意味...
"Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren’t looking, alluring and ever out of reach.”
评分一本会让人觉得英文特别美的小说。文字的流畅和简洁在最近几年读过的英美文学里数一数二。最喜欢它在历险故事里加入的一些对于人性和历史的思考。一些突然的转折让人意识到一个人在现实面前是多么的无力,但即使是这样也不能停下不顾一切向自由奔跑的脚步。
评分评论里看见很多忿忿不平,集中表现在此书同主题著作已太多而角度不够新。对我而言,此书却恰恰让我面对“常识”的时候,对某种别人的苦难有了新的想象力。
评分作为国图以及今年英语小说的各种奖项的大热门,实在是分量不够!美国文学怎么最近下降的如此厉害?黑人文学的崛起?甚至不如莫里森啊。脑洞是非常大,但是除此之外,除了司空见惯的黑奴受虐和白人帮助,真的看不到太多,就连情感交锋的深度都是以前老旧的。当然,美国人看历史的眼光自然跟我不一样,他们带着更多的反思在看,我只能是一个旁观者,书中角色很多,但是总觉得不够深入,太浅表,动机和想法都非常直接,最后的大屠杀固然惨,但是女主人公Cora才是真的不争气!如果她早点去北方,哪有这些事啊,贪图眼前的安逸,带来一连串的灾难,结果大家都被她害死了,她又逃跑出来,真是有点无语。不过,好在仍然算好看,很紧张。美国作家很考虑当下的读者,书都越写越浅显,难有大器。
评分看一段就要缓一缓。因为学过美国历史,也就对里面很多historical background更加敏感。真的太好看了想重新去补美国历史了。
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