作者：ChimamandaNgoziAdichie
出版社：HarperPerennial
副标题：(CollinsReaders)
出版年：2010-2-1
页数：320
定价：USD13.99
ISBN：9780007189885
内容简介
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By turns luminous and horrific, this debut ensnares the reader from the first page and lingers in the memory long after its tragic end. First-person narrator Kambili Achike is a 15-year-old Nigerian girl growing up in sheltered privilege in a country ravaged by political strife and personal struggle. She and her brother, Jaja, and their quiet mother, who speaks "the way a bird eats, in small amounts," live this life of luxury because Kambili's father is a wealthy man who owns factories, publishes a politically outspoken newspaper and outwardly leads the moral, humble life of a faithful Catholic. The many grateful citizens who have received his blessings and material assistance call him omelora, "The One Who Does for the Community." Yet Kambili, Jaja and their mother see a side to their provider no one else does: he is also a religious fanatic who regularly and viciously beats his family for the mildest infractions of his interpretation of an exemplary Christian life. The children know better than to discuss their home life with anyone else; "there was so much that we never told." But when they are unexpectedly allowed to visit their liberated and loving Aunty Ifeoma, a widowed university professor raising three children, family secrets and tensions bubble dangerously to the surface, setting in motion a chain of events that allow Kambili to slowly blossom as she begins to question the authority of the precepts and adults she once held sacred. In a soft, searing voice, Adichie examines the complexities of family, faith and country through the haunted but hopeful eyes of a young girl on the cusp of womanhood. Lush, cadenced and often disconcerting, this is an accomplished first effort.
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作者简介
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born September 15, 1977) is a Nigerian writer whose first two novels won literary awards. She is a native of Abba, Nigeria, in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra state, Southeast Nigeria. Her family is of Igbo descent. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
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Purple Hibiscus讲述了15岁女孩Kambili的成长故事。从她的视角我们看到女孩富有、却在宗教狂热分子的父亲严格把控下的家庭怎样逐渐破碎，和故事的背景–尼日利亚当下的分崩离析相呼应。作者的文笔直截了当却同时细腻入微，生动自然地将主人公Kambili心理和她眼里世间变化呈现出来。在这个关于暴力、压迫、和爱（包括painful love)的故事里Kambili的小心谨慎、sheer t…
不是很抓我的语言 感觉情节和概念很到位 但语言has so much potential 太多主人公作为内向人内心的描写 不免有些cliché 想看更多的戏剧冲突 想更多的看到父亲这个人物 牧师这个人物
Recorded book version, narrated by Lisette Lecat
人生中第一本认认真真完完整整读完的英文小说。本是因为课程的原因而不得不读，但进度过半之后心甘情愿地继续，也不想停下查生词了。或者说这是我很长一段时间以来第一次静下心来流畅地阅读了。英文小说没那么难，读书也没那么难。不知为什么，我忽然为自己长久以来挥霍着自己的时光和幸运而感到无比羞愧。
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