图书标签: 美国 移民 英文原版 种族 文化 美国文化 ★ NONFICTION
发表于2024-09-09
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A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to millions of Americans as it tells the story of the love between a Panamanian boy and a Mexican girl: teenagers living in an apartment block of immigrant families like their own.
After their daughter Maribel suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras leave México and come to America. But upon settling at Redwood Apartments, a two-story cinderblock complex just off a highway in Delaware, they discover that Maribel's recovery-the piece of the American Dream on which they've pinned all their hopes-will not be easy. Every task seems to confront them with language, racial, and cultural obstacles. At Redwood also lives Mayor Toro, a high school sophomore whose family arrived from Panamà fifteen years ago. Mayor sees in Maribel something others do not: that beyond her lovely face, and beneath the damage she's sustained, is a gentle, funny, and wise spirit. But as the two grow closer, violence casts a shadow over all their futures in America. Peopled with deeply sympathetic characters, this poignant yet unsentimental tale of young love tells a riveting story of unflinching honesty and humanity that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be an American. An instant classic is born.
Cristina Henríquez is the author of The Book of Unknown Americans, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2014 and one of Amazon’s Top 10 Books of the Year. It was the Daily Beast Novel of the Year, a Washington Post Notable Book, an NPR Great Read, a Target Book of the Month selection, and was chosen one of the best books of the year by BookPage, Oprah.com, and School Library Journal. It was also longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Henriquez is also the author The World In Half (a novel), and Come Together, Fall Apart: A Novella and Stories, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection.
Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Glimmer Train, The American Scholar, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and AGNI along with the anthology This is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America’s Best Women Writers.
Cristina’s non-fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, The Oxford American, and Preservation as well as in the anthologies State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America and Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Women Writers Reflect on the Candidate and What Her Campaign Meant.
She was featured in Virginia Quarterly Review as one of “Fiction’s New Luminaries,” has been a guest on National Public Radio, and is a recipient of the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award, a grant started by Sandra Cisneros in honor of her father.
Cristina lives in Illinois.
关于移民现状不偏不倚的呈现
评分说到美国人,并不是每个人眼前都会浮现出不同肤色的面孔。可美国确是由这些肤色各异,文化各异,背景各异的移民组成的。这本书讲述南美裔美国移民的故事,在那个社会,他们是“不为人知”的美国人。可他们却真真实实地追求着自己每一个的美国梦。
评分I was expecting collision and integration of cultual values, but for the most part it is a teen love story, let alone the dramatic ending. It is a mediocre novel, but I just cannot resist the theme of aspiration and frustration of racial, cultural minority groups.
评分几个星期听完了audiobook...讲真不听的话要看好久好久。挺喜欢的一本书,其中的移民和家庭描写相当真实。特别是学了一年西语之后听上去很有成就感。好多次被戳到,几次在公交车上lowkey红了眼眶,结局有一点点故作鸡汤。以及并不喜欢americans这个帽子。
评分I was expecting collision and integration of cultual values, but for the most part it is a teen love story, let alone the dramatic ending. It is a mediocre novel, but I just cannot resist the theme of aspiration and frustration of racial, cultural minority groups.
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The Book of Unknown Americans pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024