Book Description A love story. A journey in search of self. A meditation on our frightening times. With Mother Tongue, Demetria Martínez gives us all these and more, in an unforgettable novel infused with the color, sunlight, and cool shadows of the world her two lovers inhabit. Told in the cadences of a poet, with the unsparing honesty of a woman looking back on the most important decision of her life, the events in Mother Tongue unfold with the urgency, the inevitability, of destiny. Mary is nineteen and living alone in Albuquerque. Adrift in the wake of her mother's death, she longs for something meaningful to take her over. Vulnerable to love and game for anything, Mary knows she has found the other part of herself when Jose Luis enters her life.A refugee from El Salvador and its vicious and bloody civil war, José Luis has been smuggled to the United States as part of the sanctuary movement that is attempting to expose the plight of thousands of citizens being harassed, tortured, and disappeared by a United States-supported military government.Mary cannot help but fall in love with the movement and the man who represents it for her--his strength, his sadness, and the life he has left behind. And little by little, she begins to reveal to José Luis the hope that always lives in love. Though violent times conspire against Mary's dreams, she is about to lay claim to a part of herself she has never known. From the Publisher That it is possible to learn as much from fiction as from nonfiction is made abundantly clear from a reading of MOTHER TONGUE. Martinez focuses her story on a young woman who becomes involved with a refugee from El Salvador who is smuggled into the U.S. by members of the Sanctuary movement, advocates for the tens of thousands of Salvadorans who have been harassed, tortured, and "disappeared" by a U.S.-supported military government. There is the truth of experience behind Martinez' fiction. In 1987, she was charged with conspiring against the U.S. government and aiding the entry of Salvadorans into the country. At the end of her 1988 trial, she was acquitted of the charges on First Amendment grounds -- the jury determined that she had a right, as a reporter for the National Catholic Reporter, to witness efforts to aid refugees as part of the Sanctuary movement. Martinez knows whereof she speaks, and writes of it with the voice of the poet that she is.--Margaret Sanborn/Publicity See all Editorial Reviews
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这本书的结构简直是一场精妙的建筑艺术,每一个章节的布局都像是经过反复推敲的榫卯结构,严丝合缝,却又充满了灵动。我发现作者非常善于运用非线性的叙事,时间仿佛不再是线性的河流,而是被揉碎、重组后重新呈现的碎片,读者需要主动去拼凑出完整的图景。这种阅读体验极具挑战性,但回报也是丰厚的——每一次成功连接起一个看似松散的叙事点时,都会带来巨大的满足感。书中描绘的那个世界,尽管可能基于现实,却被作者用一种近乎魔幻的笔触赋予了新的生命。那些看似无关紧要的配角,其命运线索也与主线交织得天衣无缝,形成了一张庞大而精密的意义之网。我不得不佩服作者构建如此复杂体系的能力,同时还能保持语言的清晰和张力,实属难得。读这本书,与其说是阅读,不如说是在解谜,是在参与一场与作者共同完成的智力与情感的探险。
评分初捧此书,我本以为会遇到一部常见的家族史诗,然而,这本书带来的震撼远远超出了我的预期。它以一种近乎残酷的诚实,揭示了人性中那些最幽暗、最难以启齿的面向。作者的笔锋犀利如手术刀,毫不留情地剖析着角色的动机、挣扎与最终的妥协。这种毫不回避的真实感,使得阅读过程时而令人感到压抑,但正是这种压抑,最终引向了一种深层次的净化与理解。我尤其欣赏作者对于权力结构和代际创伤的探讨,它不仅仅是个人的悲剧,更是时代烙印在个体灵魂上的不可磨灭的伤痕。这本书提供了一个绝佳的视角,让我们得以审视那些被历史尘封的真相。它不迎合读者的舒适区,而是强迫我们直面那些不愿承认的事实。读完后,我感觉自己仿佛经历了一场漫长而艰苦的心灵洗礼,对“完整”和“破碎”有了全新的认识。
评分这本书的文字像一首流淌的河流,每一个词语都带着它特有的重量和韵律。作者的叙事手法极为高明,他似乎不急于将故事推向高潮,而是将我们带入一种近乎冥想的状态,让我们细细品味那些日常生活中常常被忽略的细节。我仿佛能闻到纸张上散发出的古旧墨香,看到那些人物在文字构筑的场景中栩栩如生地呼吸。特别是那些关于记忆和失落的片段,被描绘得如此细腻而又充满张力,让人读来不禁心头一紧,继而又被一种温柔的力量所包裹。这本书不只是在讲述一个故事,它更像是一次深刻的内在旅程的记录,引导着读者去审视自己内心深处那些未曾言说的角落。它的节奏缓慢,却蕴含着巨大的能量,每一次翻页都像是揭开一层新的迷雾,显露出更深层次的意义。我尤其欣赏作者在处理情感转折时的那种克制与精准,没有过度的渲染,却能精准地击中人心最柔软的部分。读完之后,需要很长一段时间才能真正抽离出来,回味那份沉甸甸的触动。
评分如果用音乐来形容,这本书的“配乐”无疑是极简主义的,却充满了令人不安的张力。作者极度克制地使用华丽的辞藻,转而将重点放在了人物间那些微妙的、未言明的对话和动作上。大量的留白和场景的凝视,迫使我必须放慢速度,去“听”那些声音之外的东西——窗外风吹过树叶的沙沙声、老旧地板发出的吱呀声、甚至是角色内心深处那一声微弱的叹息。这种“减法”美学,在当代文学中显得尤为珍贵。它考验着读者的耐心,但同样也奖励了那些愿意沉浸其中的人。每一次停顿,都像是作者给出的一个暗示,一个等待我们去填补的空白。我从中体会到一种极高的文学修养,这种修养不在于堆砌辞藻,而在于如何用最少的元素,构建出最深远的意境。这本书像一块上好的玉石,温润之下,是坚硬而不可侵犯的内在力量。
评分这本书像一部慢镜头拍摄的电影,它捕捉的不是戏剧性的冲突,而是那种缓慢、不可逆转的衰变过程——无论是物质的腐朽,还是情感的淡漠。作者似乎对“时间如何吞噬一切”抱有近乎痴迷的关注。他会花上大段的篇幅去描绘一栋建筑如何从辉煌走向颓败,或者一个曾经热烈的情感如何被日常生活的琐碎慢慢磨损至无声无息。这种对“熵增”的深刻洞察,让人在阅读时感到一种哲学的重量。它不提供廉价的希望或救赎,而是以一种近乎冷峻的姿态展示了存在的本质:变化是永恒的,而失去也是必然的一部分。这种诚实让人心痛,却也让人感到踏实,因为它拒绝了虚假的慰藉。我喜欢这种直面生命本质的勇气,它让这本书拥有了一种超越普通故事的持久的生命力,每次重读,都能从那种缓慢的消逝中,发现新的、被忽略的细节。
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