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.
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.
奎妮 “人口-在避難中心,我們這樣稱呼他們。那些住處被毀、無傢可歸、厚臉皮忍受世界被炸成碎片這一災難的人們。那些讓紙闆棺材空著卻擠滿破舊學校教師的人,他們那悲慘的麵容和骯髒的衣服,讓剛從井下齣來的礦工好像聖誕節的小精靈。他們呼拉一大片擠進來,你覺得自己好像是...
評分 評分如果不是BC我是不會去看小島這個迷你劇,就更不會對原著産生興趣。 花瞭兩個半小時看完瞭整本書,不能說每字每句都仔細看瞭,也至少不是囫圇吞棗。 原著中的每個主要齣場人物都有第一人稱的錶述,將人物背景及在那個年代所經曆的事情一一擺在讀者麵前,人物豐滿鮮活。無論多麼...
評分朋友說這是他過去一年讀過的最好的一本書,猜他是忍痛割愛送給我的。 文字很詼諧幽默,故事也很簡單自然,但一切對我來講都很新鮮。 迴想春節時在拉薩的青旅,因為發燒在燈光昏暗的室內休息,晚上把雙拼的木椅子擠在衛生間門口明亮的燈光中,裹著被子沉浸在他們掙紮的世界裏。 ...
評分Not worth the time. Really bad writing and too much cliche.
评分小說很好,可惜翻譯質量最多隻能算一般吧。
评分I really enjoyed it and got to know more about Jamaica.
评分#LI204-04: Collapsing The Empire# “All night I waited for courage or despair to overwhelm to me. To slip me into the navy sea. But neither came."
评分蠻無聊的...
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