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2024-11-23
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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...
评分 评分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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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.
可以感觉到一个女作家的视角,那时在异乡读时更有empathy
评分不喜欢小说的文风 看到第60页不想继续看下去
评分不喜欢小说的文风 看到第60页不想继续看下去
评分Black history. equality wasn't introduced that long ago and some people out there still are struggling.
评分Not worth the time. Really bad writing and too much cliche.
Small Island 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书