SMALL ISLAND 小岛
出版日期:2009-9
ISBN:9780755355952
作者:Levy, Andrea
页数:533页
作者简介
In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving, multi-award winning novel, Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire, prejudice, war and love, with a lightness of touch and a generosity of spirit that challenges and uplifts the reader. It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street. London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but with her husband, Bernard, not back from the war, what else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. Gilbert's wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica and start a better life in England. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, and far from the city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was.
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it took me ages to finish this for i've already seen the film before reading this, so no mystery for me. the film depicts Bernard better i dare say for BC's sake. intriguing story, BBC has done a great film. If you have watched the film then there's no need to read this i think. -
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其实看完有点想去看看英文版。
4个主人公的视角展开其实很特别，毕竟每个人的角度看到的东西都是不同的。战争究竟带给了我们什么，带给了他们什么。种族问题到现在依旧严峻，不是吗。