具體描述
One morning, Deming Guo’s mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her.
With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. They rename him Daniel Wilkinson in their efforts to make him over into their version of an “all-American boy.” But far away from all he’s ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his new life with his mother’s disappearance and the memories of the family and community he left behind.
Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid and moving examination of borders and belonging. It’s the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he’s loved has been taken away--and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of her past.
This powerful debut is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice.
著者簡介
麗莎·康(Lisa Ko)，齣生在紐約皇後區，在新澤西長大，現居布魯剋林，憑其首部小說《離岸人》獲得瞭2016年的美國社會領頭羊小說奬(PEN /Bellwether Prize)。她的作品齣現在《2016年美國短篇小說》《紐約時報》《使徒日記》《敘事》《紐約時報》《銅鎳》《故事和弦》《一個少年故事》《布魯剋林評論》等。
譯者簡介：
梁欣琢，南京大學英美文學碩士，英語譯者，譯有《非暴力溝通（實踐篇）》《人間謬誤》《蘋果樹》等書。
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讀後感
《离岸人》讲述的是中国移民在大洋彼岸的艰辛生活，而且最悲惨的是不仅被移民局驱逐出境，而且骨肉分离，杳无音信。改头换面的她在中国以一个留洋归国的知识女性形象收获爱情，过上了人上人的中产生活，然而内心却一直备受煎熬，心理埋藏着对儿子的亏欠。尽管最终亲人再聚，可...
評分《离岸人》讲述的是中国移民在大洋彼岸的艰辛生活，而且最悲惨的是不仅被移民局驱逐出境，而且骨肉分离，杳无音信。改头换面的她在中国以一个留洋归国的知识女性形象收获爱情，过上了人上人的中产生活，然而内心却一直备受煎熬，心理埋藏着对儿子的亏欠。尽管最终亲人再聚，可...
評分《离岸人》讲述的是中国移民在大洋彼岸的艰辛生活，而且最悲惨的是不仅被移民局驱逐出境，而且骨肉分离，杳无音信。改头换面的她在中国以一个留洋归国的知识女性形象收获爱情，过上了人上人的中产生活，然而内心却一直备受煎熬，心理埋藏着对儿子的亏欠。尽管最终亲人再聚，可...
評分《离岸人》讲述的是中国移民在大洋彼岸的艰辛生活，而且最悲惨的是不仅被移民局驱逐出境，而且骨肉分离，杳无音信。改头换面的她在中国以一个留洋归国的知识女性形象收获爱情，过上了人上人的中产生活，然而内心却一直备受煎熬，心理埋藏着对儿子的亏欠。尽管最终亲人再聚，可...
評分《离岸人》讲述的是中国移民在大洋彼岸的艰辛生活，而且最悲惨的是不仅被移民局驱逐出境，而且骨肉分离，杳无音信。改头换面的她在中国以一个留洋归国的知识女性形象收获爱情，过上了人上人的中产生活，然而内心却一直备受煎熬，心理埋藏着对儿子的亏欠。尽管最终亲人再聚，可...
用戶評價
花瞭兩天時間一口氣看完瞭這本小說，作者的構思和文筆都不落俗套，看的時候有種邊理解故事邊學習英語的感覺。非法移民到跨種族收養兩個話題恰好都與我最近的經曆和思考有共鳴之處，然而最令人驚喜的是Peilan Guo這個母親角色，一位不懼挑戰，不安於現狀，一生都在往外麵的世界拼命摺騰的女人。讀她的內心獨白，對於在生活的柴米油鹽中消磨的不安遠勝於去探索未知世界的不安，像是小婦人裏麵的Jo March. Maybe it’s not about moving to new places, the challenge is to stay put. In the wake of COVID-19, this statement is coated with a new feeling for me.
评分A story made up of bittersweet, fluorescent Polaroid photos. Ko does a great job constructing beautiful moments with her literary wizardry. Polly Guo, a romantic and resolved mother whose desire to pursue the sometimes fearsome freedom has been tied down by her connection with her son, is one of the most refreshing mother characters in modern lit.
评分作者通過細膩的心理描寫塑造瞭德明和佩蘭兩位復雜而多麵的主角人物，在娓娓道來的故事中對美國社會少數族裔的文化認同，移民製度，以及收養製度進行瞭反思。
评分reads like a book that grew from a concept (what deportation does to separated families) - story feels predictable (but hey that's because it's in recent news, and because it grew out of Ko reading the news). Hated the unnatural and heavyhanded flourishes of the prose. the chineseness feels inauthentic. Is Polly blameless as the book suggests? (No)
评分NYPL. Compelling, subtle start but a banal ending.
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