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.
发表于2025-02-27
Small Island 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
《小岛》这本书一如他的名字,是一座看似小,实则富饶的岛屿,稍不留神,你很可能就与之擦肩而过。 如果要做个比喻的话,《小岛》应该是归为《飘》一类的作品,当然他没有《飘》来的气势磅礴,却也别有风情。 那样的风情,也往往因为作家轻松调侃的风格被很多人忽略。...
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...
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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.
I really enjoyed it and got to know more about Jamaica.
评分本来只是因为要看小说改编的话剧而读,没想到真的好看。话剧比小说差得远。文字太细腻动人了。Bernard二战时在印度的经历那条线写得好棒。以及,在牙买加长大的孩子来到英国,一点也想不到会被歧视被singled out,还蛮感慨的。
评分上周上班的巴士居然我前面兩個女士都在讀書 都是外國人 其中一個是這本我終於狠狠窺見了
评分Not worth the time. Really bad writing and too much cliche.
评分Not worth the time. Really bad writing and too much cliche.
Small Island 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书