Bernardine Evaristo is a British writer, born in Woolwich, south east London to an English mother and Nigerian father. She has written novels in various mixes of prose and poetry; she has also written poems, radio plays, and theatre plays. Among her other honours, The Emperor's Babe was chosen as one of the Times' "100 Best Books of the Decade" and Evaristo was named a Member of the British Empire (MBE) for being "a major voice in the multicultural panorama of British literature".
发表于2024-11-07
Girl, Woman, Other 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 女性 英文原版 布克奖 英国 NOVEL 长篇小说 欧美文学 英文
Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.
Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.
'A daring evocation of black British history... Sexy, punchy [and] fresh' Independent on Sunday on The Emperor's Babe
3.5 十二个出自不同年代的女人都经历了各式各样的伤痛,但性别、种族问题和奇妙的人际关系将她们连在了一起,每个人物的成长、奋斗史都有动人之处;小说散文诗般的流畅文体有效把控着人物的叙述声音和情感释放的节拍,不过也让每个人的讲述呈现趋同性的特质,看似丰富的人物背景和故事并没有给文本带来真正的多样和活力,整部小说更像是一剂为赞颂平等权利而精心配制的药方,少了些灵动自然。
评分没有句号。一开始以为排版出了问题。 后来一看就不可收拾。 这些和我的现实生活没有任何交集的女性,在书中度过了一代一代,一生一生。 排比的句子,阅读起来没有难度。但是读到后来人物会有交集的时候,会忘了具体情节。然后慢慢地他们的一生浮现出来。这里面的女性大部分都松散的和第一个出场的amma有关,和她创作的剧本有关联。
评分在读到关于Bernardine的采访时知道她独特的写作方式,这才提起好奇心跟着布克奖的阅读高峰读完了这本书。年代下关于性别,性取向以及相关身份的写作探讨十分丰富,但是更让我打动的是Bernardine在采访里也说到的,不仅仅是在描述这些或者是捍卫这些,更多的是将这些女性都作为完整的人来叙述,拥有无限且丰富拓展可能性的各个人生。的确是交错着的,错误和经历,冲动或者背叛,人生的常见破碎之下最终每个故事都顺着它们的道路缓慢走去,就像是双目失明的盲人,却仍然被月光照亮了前路,所有的人。女人,或者,女/男人。
评分三星半。跟阿特伍德的《使女》续篇并列了19年布克奖的一本——前者在我关注的booktuber里反响平平,这本好像更被认为实至名归些。这本的结构我很喜欢:12个故事的主角分别是以不同方式(母女、伙伴、校友、主仆等等)相关联的非裔英国人(身份从初代移民和白手起家的话剧导演到出身底层的投行从业者和20出头的3个孩子的单亲妈妈不等),绝大部分是女性,而这12个故事就像他们各自的小传,而其余的11个人可能不自知地就成了这些小传中的配角。作者的意图很明确:展现英国非裔的多元化和他们(尤其是)女性必经的挑战和挣扎——而且前2/3是值得打四星的。但后1/3逐渐让人有种“tick boxes”的感觉,不是说哪一个群体应该被略过,但读起来难免有罗列的感觉。终章也因为这种可预期性而失掉了节日感。
评分The winner of this year's Booker Prize is fun to read, but I also feel it is not very original in both form and content. The book wasn't that well-written and probably needs some polishing. I was almost fed up with the nagging of the author, but again that could be because I was hurrying.
Girl, Woman, Other 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书