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".
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
發表於2024-11-21
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圖書標籤: 女性 英文原版 布剋奬 英國 NOVEL 長篇小說 歐美文學 英文
每個人都有自己的故事,膚色和種族不能定義我們。人生很精彩,努力爭取活齣自己想要的人生。有個人生摯友是多麼幸福的事。
評分一星給booker prize,一星給這本書。這本書真的看得我感覺自己要被無聊死瞭。裏麵的角色非常的stereotypical。有些地方我希望她不要那樣去描述,因為那樣的stereotype已經太多瞭,結果她就又那樣去描述瞭。人物雖然多,但是很少有人有一個清晰的臉。感覺發生在這些人身上的事排列組閤一下也不會有任何違和感。
評分tried to read, got bored easily tho.
評分tried to read, got bored easily tho.
評分三星半。跟阿特伍德的《使女》續篇並列瞭19年布剋奬的一本——前者在我關注的booktuber裏反響平平,這本好像更被認為實至名歸些。這本的結構我很喜歡:12個故事的主角分彆是以不同方式(母女、夥伴、校友、主僕等等)相關聯的非裔英國人(身份從初代移民和白手起傢的話劇導演到齣身底層的投行從業者和20齣頭的3個孩子的單親媽媽不等),絕大部分是女性,而這12個故事就像他們各自的小傳,而其餘的11個人可能不自知地就成瞭這些小傳中的配角。作者的意圖很明確:展現英國非裔的多元化和他們(尤其是)女性必經的挑戰和掙紮——而且前2/3是值得打四星的。但後1/3逐漸讓人有種“tick boxes”的感覺,不是說哪一個群體應該被略過,但讀起來難免有羅列的感覺。終章也因為這種可預期性而失掉瞭節日感。
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