America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man’s desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he’s hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again.
A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood—and his home.
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托妮•莫里森(1931—)
美国著名女作家。1931年生于俄亥俄州,曾在兰登书屋担任高级编辑,后赴普林斯顿大学等校任教。代表作有《最蓝的眼睛》《所罗门之歌》《宠儿》《爵士乐》《爱》《恩惠》等,曾获普利策小说奖、美国书评家协会奖、美国国家图书奖等多项大奖。1993年荣获诺贝尔文学奖。
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留在旧地的昔日,是件非常美妙的东西。但现在她回来了,照父亲的说法,住下了,却让记忆变得可怕起来。任记忆越过界限朝这头蔓延过来,成了现时,可能也成了未来——他们都知道,这是件令人痛惜的事。想到他们的怜悯,她心里难受极了。
在一次访谈中,罗宾逊提到,有一次为了研究英国文艺复兴时期的作家和作品,她割开了一些出版于十七世纪的书的书页,那些书自出版之日起还从未有人读过。历史,无论是国家民族的历史还是家族个人的历史,有着许许多多这样还不曾割开的书页——曾经被书写却被遗忘被湮灭了的书页。
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