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.
發表於2024-11-27
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這是一部有關黑人與白人種族主義、殖民主義、戰爭與偏見題材的小說。《小島》的背景,擺放在一九四八年的倫敦。這年的六月份,曾有一艘“順風帝國號”駛入倫敦的蒂爾伯裏港區。船上,載瞭四百九十二名來自西印度群島的乘客,他們是加勒比地區嚮英國的第一批大規模移民...
評分奎妮 “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...
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這種小說看的比較少,感覺還是看不下去.....
評分酣暢淋灕一盆狗血
評分Not worth the time. Really bad writing and too much cliche.
評分酣暢淋灕一盆狗血
評分上周上班的巴士居然我前麵兩個女士都在讀書 都是外國人 其中一個是這本我終於狠狠窺見瞭
Small Island 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載