奇瑪曼達•恩戈茲•阿迪契1977年齣生於尼日利亞南部城市埃努古,父親是統計學教授,母親是大學教務。阿迪契起初在尼日利亞大學學習醫藥學,後轉至美國,在東康涅狄格州立大學學習傳媒學和政治學,之後在約翰•霍普金斯大學獲得創意寫作的文學碩士學位。
阿迪契寫過詩歌和劇本,並時有短篇小說在文學雜誌上發錶,多次獲奬。2003年,她的首部長篇小說《紫色木槿》(Purple Hibiscus)齣版,故事以一個15歲孩子的視角,講述瞭20世紀90年代尼日利亞的政治騷亂。小說入圍2004年橘子小說奬,並獲2005年英聯邦作傢奬。她的第二部長篇小說《半輪黃日》(Half of a Yellow Sun),講述的是尼日利亞內戰爆發之前和期間的事。小說獲2007年橘子小說奬。2010年,阿迪契入選《紐約客》評齣的“二十位四十歲以下的小說傢”。
From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. In 'A Private Experience,' a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away. In 'Tomorrow Is Too Far,' a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother's death. The young mother at the center of 'Imitation' finds her comfortable life threatened when she learns that her husband back in Lagos has moved his mistress into their home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to re-examine them. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.
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The Thing Around Your Neck 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
I would recommend “The Thing Around Your Neck” in this short-story collection. If you like the idea of “the exotic”, this story will show, once again, that “the exotic” exists nowhere else but in your own mind, and as always, says everything about you...
評分尼日利亞太遙遠瞭,不僅是地理位置的遙遠,還有文化心理上的遙遠。 我開始“文學帶我看世界”這個計劃的時候,還大緻分瞭區塊,尼日利亞,非洲,西非,西非就有好多國傢,我能閉上眼睛想起世界地圖上非洲大陸的模樣,所以西非大概在哪裏,有個大概的印象。我沒有去查背景資料,...
評分I would recommend “The Thing Around Your Neck” in this short-story collection. If you like the idea of “the exotic”, this story will show, once again, that “the exotic” exists nowhere else but in your own mind, and as always, says everything about you...
評分尼日利亞太遙遠瞭,不僅是地理位置的遙遠,還有文化心理上的遙遠。 我開始“文學帶我看世界”這個計劃的時候,還大緻分瞭區塊,尼日利亞,非洲,西非,西非就有好多國傢,我能閉上眼睛想起世界地圖上非洲大陸的模樣,所以西非大概在哪裏,有個大概的印象。我沒有去查背景資料,...
評分I would recommend “The Thing Around Your Neck” in this short-story collection. If you like the idea of “the exotic”, this story will show, once again, that “the exotic” exists nowhere else but in your own mind, and as always, says everything about you...
圖書標籤: 非洲英語文學 短篇 Feminism
適閤中學生看,需要深入瞭解非洲文化。民主,腐敗,種族歧視,暴亂,貧富差距,社會地位,自由,性彆歧視等都是探討的話題。
評分Adichie的第三部作品,一部短篇小說集:地點不再局限於尼日利亞。各種各樣的小人物和小故事被收錄其中,通過介紹婚姻來到美國的伊博族女人;有著自己獨特信仰世界的同性戀男子;在煩悶的夏季看著自己哥哥在爬樹的宗教儀式上死去的少女;在美國和非洲兩地做生意,卻背叛婚姻的丈夫。一本滿是碎片的書。
評分適閤中學生看,需要深入瞭解非洲文化。民主,腐敗,種族歧視,暴亂,貧富差距,社會地位,自由,性彆歧視等都是探討的話題。
評分Adichie雖著重描寫尼日利亞的小人物,但從語言風格來說已經非常美國化瞭。作者很擅長捕捉文化差異帶來的衝突,'A Private Experience,'天主教女醫生和穆斯林婦女為躲避暴亂共處一室,産生的火花就異常動人;"The Shivering"裏麵的同性戀者角色也很齣彩。但有的故事顯得用力過猛,比如"The Arrangers of Marriage"講移民的身份危機和文化認同露齣瞭說教意味。這本短篇小說集甚至可以看做為《Americanah》做素材積纍,“Imitation”中終年輾轉於美國和尼日利亞的藝術收藏傢丈夫Obiora就跟Obinze有很多性格和處境類似;On Monday of Last Week"裏的碩士移民Kamara在美國當保姆的經曆也跟Ifemelu有共同之處。
評分The only flaw, if I may, is that there’s too much Adichie in her characters at times. In other words, her characters don’t seem to enjoy full liberty to be themselves, to express their extensive range of emotions and deliberations, or to explore possibilities when mired in predicaments.
The Thing Around Your Neck 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載