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发表于2024-11-24
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A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were planted and took root.
Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh north. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, “with the hands of a slave and the feet of a Portuguese lady.” Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master’s house, but later from a handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved.
There are other voices: Lina, whose tribe was decimated by smallpox; their mistress, Rebekka, herself a victim of religious intolerance back in England; Sorrow, a strange girl who’s spent her early years at sea; and finally the devastating voice of Florens’ mother. These are all men and women inventing themselves in the wilderness.
A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and of a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.
Acts of mercy may have unforeseen consequences.
From the Hardcover edition.
托妮•莫裏森(Toni Morrison)
美國著名女作傢。1931年生於俄亥俄州,曾在蘭登書屋擔任高級編輯,後赴普林斯頓大學等校任教。代錶作有《最藍的眼睛》《所羅門之歌》《寵兒》《爵士樂》《愛》《恩惠》等,曾獲普利策小說奬、美國書評傢協會奬、美國國傢圖書奬等多項大奬。1993年,榮獲諾貝爾文學奬。
在創作手法上,她那簡潔明快的手筆具有海明威的風格,且充滿詩意,情節的神秘隱暗感又近似南方作傢福剋納,當然還明顯地受到拉美魔幻現實主義的影響。“她的偉大與創新可與福剋納、加西亞•馬爾剋斯及伍爾芙相媲美,這就是她理應獲得諾貝爾文學奬的原因。”哈佛大學美國黑人研究院院長如是說。
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A Mercy pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024