A riveting, kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: a novel about race, history, ancestry, love, and time that traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-century Africa across three hundred years in Ghana and America.
Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. E...
A riveting, kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: a novel about race, history, ancestry, love, and time that traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-century Africa across three hundred years in Ghana and America.
Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and will live in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising children who will be sent abroad to be educated before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the empire. Esi, imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the wars of Ghana to slavery and the Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the American South to the Great Migration to twentieth-century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's novel moves through histories and geographies and captures--with outstanding economy and force-- the troubled spirit of our own nation. She has written a modern masterpiece.
作者简介
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YAA GYASI was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and lives in Berkeley, California.
“The family is like the forest: if you are outside it is dense; if you are inside you see that each tree has its own position.” 全书的开头引用了这样一句库阿文哲言。 故事讲的是同母异父的两个黑人姐妹作为分支的大家族的故事， 故事首尾贯穿三百多年， 讲述了两...
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First book of slavery. The storyline was divided into two parts of two sisters whose lives went different ways and generation by generation, black lives started with no freedom and it came to Marcus who was the last character in the book whose life changed ...
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6 有用 Baristina 2016-12-13 08:10:43
possibly 2016 最佳 一口气写了将近200年 走出非洲版百年孤独with a foreseeable happy ending
1 有用 Le Flaneur 2021-08-22 22:36:36
作者雄心很大，想把七八代人跨越几百年的历史浓缩在短短三百页里，结果贪多嚼不烂，导致每个故事都很脸谱化，有点像没有细节的寓言
0 有用 还珠十一级学者 2023-10-04 16:09:00 黑龙江
人物脸谱化、文笔稚嫩，作者89年的，阅历太浅导致的。
0 有用 Decem 2023-11-27 14:56:53 美国
六代人被奴隶制度撕开的历史，跨越两国，是加纳的历史也是African American的历史，我最喜欢的居然是Effia和James的那条线，虚伪的白人总督，性格是很好，但他可以挥挥手继续奴隶贸易...可能不是我的类型，感觉比较流水账，感觉只是讲述事件/体现年代风貌和战争残酷而没有思想升华...而且到了魔幻现实主意部分我真的be like: For real? 因为现实中的罪行不会给人带来诅咒的，... 六代人被奴隶制度撕开的历史，跨越两国，是加纳的历史也是African American的历史，我最喜欢的居然是Effia和James的那条线，虚伪的白人总督，性格是很好，但他可以挥挥手继续奴隶贸易...可能不是我的类型，感觉比较流水账，感觉只是讲述事件/体现年代风貌和战争残酷而没有思想升华...而且到了魔幻现实主意部分我真的be like: For real? 因为现实中的罪行不会给人带来诅咒的，而且为什么不诅咒白人.jpg (展开)
0 有用 元气满满大姐姐 2023-03-14 18:58:09 广东
300页，七代人，近200年的黑奴历史，history is not only about storytelling，好看！
0 有用 zhoyoyo 2024-09-01 11:32:08 美国
非常精巧的叙事结构，每个故事还各有各的真实性 没有太程式化，很不容易。黑人要带着自己的sins生活，怎么白人就没有这样的苦难呢… 这本书用很小品的方式轻松地带你了解美国黑人的苦难史，很值得一读
0 有用 bagins 2024-08-16 11:40:58 上海
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0 有用 横滨流星 2024-05-19 04:27:13 英国
文科生的爱，一条关于黑奴历史的长河。感觉读完书像看完了一部关于几代人的纪录片。
0 有用 - 2024-01-26 14:03:30 上海
题材和写法其实都挺讨巧，看起来写了一个庞大的家族史，但其实明确地划分了代际和视角，很多人物只提起就没有下文，上一代的人物写完之后大多数都会抛掉不再用。可能刚看过幽灵之家的缘故，总觉得这本很一般，对于情节和人物的把控不算好，而且关键信物另一块石头也写着写着没了。没有特别能立起来的人物，每个叙述者就出现二十多页，很难和角色建立起很深的联系。
0 有用 Asmoonshines 2024-01-02 16:22:43 美国
惊人的一整个家族不同人物的塑造。引发了很多殖民教育对种族认同的影响思考。不得不感叹作者真的太牛了，就是感觉结尾有点过于梦幻，不过也许这也是它的美好目的吧～