Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage--after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures--Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time--until her family arrives on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin's second wife. Furious, shocked, and livid with jealousy, Yejide knows the only way to save her marriage is to get pregnant. Which, finally, she does--but at a cost far greater than she could have dared to imagine. An electrifying novel of enormous emotional power, Stay With Me asks how much we can sacrifice for the sake of family.
發表於2024-12-23
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圖書標籤: 長篇小說 外國文學 TheEconomist
對於一個處女作來講很棒瞭 情節性超強 猜得到開頭猜不到結尾(其實是能猜到part of the mystery but not the whole story) 居然讓我昨晚直接一口氣讀完瞭 並且讀完時 我看著身邊熟睡的Ruby 極少有地為一本書淚目(發現很多小說傢的處女作都屬於這種筆風稚拙但故事好 令人放不下的類型)沒什麼長篇細膩的描寫 很多對話 每一句都在把故事往前推 但是個人覺得書中作者試圖interweave進去的尼日利亞曆史/社會變更這條綫稍顯多餘(或者是我品味有限並不能appreciate) 總之本書和書裏人物一樣 deeply humane, flawed, and ultimately lovely
評分很美的一個故事,傷感卻強有力。
評分nigerian soap opera with forced mentions of political background, ALL the diseases (impotence, false pregnancy, sickle cell) and drama (affair with brother-in-law, second wife murdered), fixation on pregnancy-2 children die-rejects 3rd child-leaves-returns 15yr later to find 3rd child alive. magical goal ritual, victims of nigerian gender roles.
評分很驚訝 居然是作者的處女作 用男女主雙視角自述 連接流暢 也沒有顯得很亂 鋪墊和渲染的恰到好處 人物性格在故事開始的一些對話中就已經露尖尖 文筆細膩 從來沒有一本小說可以讓我看每一句話都心驚膽戰 因為情節高潮不斷 小反轉好幾個 悲傷無奈的事總在發生 字裏行間可以體會到女主角的絕望 後來是哀莫大於心死瞭 好在第三個孩子沒有早逝 美中不足的就是介紹的政權背景沒能更好的和小說主綫結閤 有點突兀
評分隨著情節的暴走,女主後半段也變得不可理喻起來。尼日利亞政變的背景好像也對整個故事沒什麼影響。有些描寫異常剜心
Stay with Me 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載