Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born September 15, 1977) is a Nigerian writer whose first two novels won literary awards. She is a native of Abba, Nigeria, in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra state, Southeast Nigeria. Her family is of Igbo descent. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

出版者:Harper Perennial

作者:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

页数:320

出版时间:2010-2-1

价格:USD 13.99

isbn号码:9780007189885

图书标签:非洲文学尼日利亚奇麻曼达·阿迪契家庭宗教小说女性文学

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By turns luminous and horrific, this debut ensnares the reader from the first page and lingers in the memory long after its tragic end. First-person narrator Kambili Achike is a 15-year-old Nigerian girl growing up in sheltered privilege in a country ravaged by political strife and personal struggle. She and her brother, Jaja, and their quiet mother, who speaks "the way a bird eats, in small amounts," live this life of luxury because Kambili's father is a wealthy man who owns factories, publishes a politically outspoken newspaper and outwardly leads the moral, humble life of a faithful Catholic. The many grateful citizens who have received his blessings and material assistance call him omelora, "The One Who Does for the Community." Yet Kambili, Jaja and their mother see a side to their provider no one else does: he is also a religious fanatic who regularly and viciously beats his family for the mildest infractions of his interpretation of an exemplary Christian life. The children know better than to discuss their home life with anyone else; "there was so much that we never told." But when they are unexpectedly allowed to visit their liberated and loving Aunty Ifeoma, a widowed university professor raising three children, family secrets and tensions bubble dangerously to the surface, setting in motion a chain of events that allow Kambili to slowly blossom as she begins to question the authority of the precepts and adults she once held sacred. In a soft, searing voice, Adichie examines the complexities of family, faith and country through the haunted but hopeful eyes of a young girl on the cusp of womanhood. Lush, cadenced and often disconcerting, this is an accomplished first effort.

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用户评价

人生中第一本认认真真完完整整读完的英文小说。本是因为课程的原因而不得不读，但进度过半之后心甘情愿地继续，也不想停下查生词了。或者说这是我很长一段时间以来第一次静下心来流畅地阅读了。英文小说没那么难，读书也没那么难。不知为什么，我忽然为自己长久以来挥霍着自己的时光和幸运而感到无比羞愧。

Purple Hibiscus讲述了15岁女孩Kambili的成长故事。从她的视角我们看到女孩富有、却在宗教狂热分子的父亲严格把控下的家庭怎样逐渐破碎，和故事的背景--尼日利亚当下的分崩离析相呼应。作者的文笔直截了当却同时细腻入微，生动自然地将主人公Kambili心理和她眼里世间变化呈现出来。在这个关于暴力、压迫、和爱（包括painful love)的故事里Kambili的小心谨慎、sheer terror、热望和期待刻画得让人难以忘记。很难想象这是Adichie 25岁时写的小说。A stunningly good debut novel.

是aunty一家教会了两个孩子什么是真正的爱和快乐 我哭了

不出意外，她的书总是那么引人入胜，虽然没有曲折的情节，没有惊悚的内容，但是就是慢慢流淌的细节描写，不冗长，不哆嗦，恰到好处地流淌到我的心间。人物刻画一如既往地饱满。这本书的结尾让我大吃一惊。正在第一个零下的早晨遛狗，那写文字通过耳机揭示出来，让我浑身再哆嗦了一下。

不出意外，她的书总是那么引人入胜，虽然没有曲折的情节，没有惊悚的内容，但是就是慢慢流淌的细节描写，不冗长，不哆嗦，恰到好处地流淌到我的心间。人物刻画一如既往地饱满。这本书的结尾让我大吃一惊。正在第一个零下的早晨遛狗，那写文字通过耳机揭示出来，让我浑身再哆嗦了一下。