Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born September 15, 1977) is a Nigerian writer whose first two novels won literary awards. She is a native of Abba, Nigeria, in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra state, Southeast Nigeria. Her family is of Igbo descent. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
By turns luminous and horrific, this debut ensnares the reader from the first page and lingers in the memory long after its tragic end. First-person narrator Kambili Achike is a 15-year-old Nigerian girl growing up in sheltered privilege in a country ravaged by political strife and personal struggle. She and her brother, Jaja, and their quiet mother, who speaks "the way a bird eats, in small amounts," live this life of luxury because Kambili's father is a wealthy man who owns factories, publishes a politically outspoken newspaper and outwardly leads the moral, humble life of a faithful Catholic. The many grateful citizens who have received his blessings and material assistance call him omelora, "The One Who Does for the Community." Yet Kambili, Jaja and their mother see a side to their provider no one else does: he is also a religious fanatic who regularly and viciously beats his family for the mildest infractions of his interpretation of an exemplary Christian life. The children know better than to discuss their home life with anyone else; "there was so much that we never told." But when they are unexpectedly allowed to visit their liberated and loving Aunty Ifeoma, a widowed university professor raising three children, family secrets and tensions bubble dangerously to the surface, setting in motion a chain of events that allow Kambili to slowly blossom as she begins to question the authority of the precepts and adults she once held sacred. In a soft, searing voice, Adichie examines the complexities of family, faith and country through the haunted but hopeful eyes of a young girl on the cusp of womanhood. Lush, cadenced and often disconcerting, this is an accomplished first effort.
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读此书了解尼日利亚文化,惊讶于宗教,以及男女间的差异和最后的结局,值得一看。
评分这是一本描写入微以至于失去情节感的小说。十五岁的女孩在又敬又畏的宗教权威父亲面前,与隐忍的母亲和不断寻找自己的哥哥,一同构成了尼日利亚的上流家庭,不为人知而又极度残忍的一面。父权与宗教的中心性割裂着最原始的情感认同,来自于父亲的家暴与拥抱,母亲的温柔和流产,女孩的孤僻敏感和美好。行文过半,有了国家的军政、正义履行教职的阿姨,和不由自主相爱的神父。关于空气、花园、气候的描写原来都是那么的有道理,有必要。最后两小节所有谜底揭开,母亲毒死父亲,却让所有人重回到了平静。父亲留下的高大道德形象依然被保护,只是所有他曾经的维护早已不同。女孩对自己说,不再追问自己是否有资格和神父相爱,只是想走下去,爱他。 一个家庭也不再忍痛为外界展示、标榜,在社会若隐若现的希望中舔舐自己的平静。想试着翻译一章。
评分不出意外,她的书总是那么引人入胜,虽然没有曲折的情节,没有惊悚的内容,但是就是慢慢流淌的细节描写,不冗长,不哆嗦,恰到好处地流淌到我的心间。人物刻画一如既往地饱满。这本书的结尾让我大吃一惊。正在第一个零下的早晨遛狗,那写文字通过耳机揭示出来,让我浑身再哆嗦了一下。
评分是aunty一家教会了两个孩子什么是真正的爱和快乐 我哭了
评分Purple Hibiscus讲述了15岁女孩Kambili的成长故事。从她的视角我们看到女孩富有、却在宗教狂热分子的父亲严格把控下的家庭怎样逐渐破碎,和故事的背景--尼日利亚当下的分崩离析相呼应。作者的文笔直截了当却同时细腻入微,生动自然地将主人公Kambili心理和她眼里世间变化呈现出来。在这个关于暴力、压迫、和爱(包括painful love)的故事里Kambili的小心谨慎、sheer terror、热望和期待刻画得让人难以忘记。很难想象这是Adichie 25岁时写的小说。A stunningly good debut novel.
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