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.
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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R4 read by Rakie Ayola. 父權與神權的正義與暴力
评分很喜歡,可讀性強,愣是看哭瞭。
评分比較壓抑。隻在小說的最後,纔感到有一些陽光。整本小說敘述的是一個蛻變、爆發的過程。
评分一個令人心痛的成長故事,學會微笑,學會反抗。
评分不齣意外,她的書總是那麼引人入勝,雖然沒有麯摺的情節,沒有驚悚的內容,但是就是慢慢流淌的細節描寫,不冗長,不哆嗦,恰到好處地流淌到我的心間。人物刻畫一如既往地飽滿。這本書的結尾讓我大吃一驚。正在第一個零下的早晨遛狗,那寫文字通過耳機揭示齣來,讓我渾身再哆嗦瞭一下。
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