A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.
In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a jour...
A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.
In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi’s past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in Sing, Unburied, Sing she is at the height of her powers.
Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she’s high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie’s children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise.
Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward’s distinctive, musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature.
作者简介
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Jesmyn Ward is a former Stegner fellow at Stanford and Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. Her novels, Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, are both set on the Mississippi coast where she grew up. Bloomsbury will publish her memoir about an epidemic of deaths of young black men in her community. She is an Assistant Professor at the University o...
Jesmyn Ward is a former Stegner fellow at Stanford and Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. Her novels, Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, are both set on the Mississippi coast where she grew up. Bloomsbury will publish her memoir about an epidemic of deaths of young black men in her community. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Alabama.
一段公路旅程，一段令人颤栗的Parchman监狱历史，一个家庭三代人和与之相伴鬼魂的故事。Ward用充满感情的语言和轻松自如的掌控力带我们试图理解一段不能被掩盖的历史，和家这个概念能给人带来的力量，给予纽带和归属的同时，也有无可奈何的局限性。因为有些东西需要超过个人，超越家庭的力量，需要我们全人类的认知、勉励、坚持和拼搏。全书很大的一个亮点是毫不突兀、却又无比重要的鬼魂的故事，它让我思考历史和个人...一段公路旅程，一段令人颤栗的Parchman监狱历史，一个家庭三代人和与之相伴鬼魂的故事。Ward用充满感情的语言和轻松自如的掌控力带我们试图理解一段不能被掩盖的历史，和家这个概念能给人带来的力量，给予纽带和归属的同时，也有无可奈何的局限性。因为有些东西需要超过个人，超越家庭的力量，需要我们全人类的认知、勉励、坚持和拼搏。全书很大的一个亮点是毫不突兀、却又无比重要的鬼魂的故事，它让我思考历史和个人的关系：其实我们每个人都承载一段历史，即使一段看似仅关系个人却从不独立的家庭史，因为： "We carry family history inside us like ghosts.“(展开)
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0 有用 Frankie早 2018-10-23 18:57:50
题材和节奏都让我想起了Everything I never told you
0 有用 Twinkletwinkle 2018-06-20 18:14:36
2017 National Book Award Winner, Fiction
0 有用 修行 2018-05-29 09:12:12
种族冲突在美国是习以为常的文学题材。但做为局外人就难以一下子感同身受。小说的架构真是好。但文字，应该是用了很多黑人常用的语法，不太符合常规写作语言。
1 有用 Mimi's Musings 2018-05-26 06:21:51
一段公路旅程，一段令人颤栗的Parchman监狱历史，一个家庭三代人和与之相伴鬼魂的故事。Ward用充满感情的语言和轻松自如的掌控力带我们试图理解一段不能被掩盖的历史，和家这个概念能给人带来的力量，给予纽带和归属的同时，也有无可奈何的局限性。因为有些东西需要超过个人，超越家庭的力量，需要我们全人类的认知、勉励、坚持和拼搏。全书很大的一个亮点是毫不突兀、却又无比重要的鬼魂的故事，它让我思考历史和个人... 一段公路旅程，一段令人颤栗的Parchman监狱历史，一个家庭三代人和与之相伴鬼魂的故事。Ward用充满感情的语言和轻松自如的掌控力带我们试图理解一段不能被掩盖的历史，和家这个概念能给人带来的力量，给予纽带和归属的同时，也有无可奈何的局限性。因为有些东西需要超过个人，超越家庭的力量，需要我们全人类的认知、勉励、坚持和拼搏。全书很大的一个亮点是毫不突兀、却又无比重要的鬼魂的故事，它让我思考历史和个人的关系：其实我们每个人都承载一段历史，即使一段看似仅关系个人却从不独立的家庭史，因为： "We carry family history inside us like ghosts.“ (展开)
1 有用 你的名字 2018-12-29 22:12:45
很独特的一本书，看全书的时候都觉得一直被vomit包围着。。。
0 有用 Le Flaneur 2024-04-27 11:08:09 上海
一种罗密欧与朱丽叶故事新说？公路小说？Leonie的部分很有Toni Morrison的味道，其他就可圈可点，接白人丈夫出狱回家短短的路程，硬撑成一部小说有点勉强了，情节很弱，所以比较难读
0 有用 fishjump 2022-04-09 14:06:01
我可能没读到灵魂
0 有用 9277盒 2021-06-25 16:02:00
Jojo一家全部都建立在亲人的爱上，比如他们住的房子，房子后头的小树林，都流淌着爱意。
0 有用 如是 2021-04-15 11:25:16
我常常想起《宠儿》，莫里森的影子挥之不去。
1 有用 Salzig 2020-12-30 08:56:15
Lyrical的文字像诗一样。多视角展现一个密西西比农村的黑人家庭，穿插了oral history、回忆、家族历史和超现实主义，让人怜悯哪怕是吸毒的人不负责任的妈妈。