The Thing Around Your Neck

出版者:Anchor Books

作者:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

页数:217

出版时间:2010-6-1

价格:GBP 12.16

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780307455918

具体描述

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as “one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years” (Baltimore Sun ), with “prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes” ( The Boston Globe ); The Washington Post called her “the twenty-first-century daughter of Chinua Achebe.” Her award-winning Half of a Yellow Sun became an instant classic upon its publication three years later, once again putting her tremendous gifts—graceful storytelling, knowing compassion, and fierce insight into her characters’ hearts—on display. Now, in her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Adichie turns her penetrating eye on not only Nigeria but America, in twelve dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.

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 in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos 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 reexamine them.

Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie’s signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them. The Thing Around Your Neck is a resounding confirmation of the prodigious literary powers of one of our most essential writers.

From the Hardcover edition.

作者简介

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria.

Her work has been translated into over thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book; and Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. Ms. Adichie is also the author of the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck.

Ms. Adichie has been invited to speak around the world. Her 2009 TED Talk, The Danger of A Single Story, is now one of the most-viewed TED Talks of all time. Her 2012 talk We Should All Be Feminists has a started a worldwide conversation about feminism, and was published as a book in 2014.

Her most recent book, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, was published in March 2017.

A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Ms. Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

读后感

尼日利亚太遥远了，不仅是地理位置的遥远，还有文化心理上的遥远。 我开始“文学带我看世界”这个计划的时候，还大致分了区块，尼日利亚，非洲，西非，西非就有好多国家，我能闭上眼睛想起世界地图上非洲大陆的模样，所以西非大概在哪里，有个大概的印象。我没有去查背景资料，...

尼日利亚太遥远了，不仅是地理位置的遥远，还有文化心理上的遥远。 我开始“文学带我看世界”这个计划的时候，还大致分了区块，尼日利亚，非洲，西非，西非就有好多国家，我能闭上眼睛想起世界地图上非洲大陆的模样，所以西非大概在哪里，有个大概的印象。我没有去查背景资料，...

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...  

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...  

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...  

用户评价

What a sensitive heart to interracial relationships.

没啥意思。绕颈之物和最后一篇很好看，其余看不下去/ 我错了 其实挺好的/值得五星

前几篇索然无味 直到读到The Thing Around Your Neck 后面有几个故事给人眼前一亮的感觉 去掉一个最高分 去掉一个最低分 3.5的水平

同学的作业。蹭来读。觉得她是一个了不起的女人——读这本的话一定要看她的ted talk！

作者的着笔非常干净，看似简单的故事，每个都余音缭绕。作为移民，我深有感触。故事虽然短小，但是表达的意义却深远。这是读的作者的第二本书，准备读完所有她的作品。朗读者也非常棒，增色不少。