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☆惟有爱与相助的光芒,得以救赎世界人的心。
内容简介
Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women:
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
爱与痛苦,仇恨与信仰,恐惧与勇气,交集在三十万字的分量里,密密麻麻浸润心灵。《相助》一书中作者以细腻真实的笔触重现了60年代美国南部的种族关系,刻画了艾碧莲、明尼、雯三个人物形象,大时代的激流教小人物只能学会隐忍,但当变革的声音从喉咙里发出,饱满而又真挚的感情喷薄而出,谁又能说,这股直抵人心的力量不能给他们的命运带来救赎?本书出版之后,版权被三十多国争先引进,《纽约时报》、《出版者周刊》、《华盛顿邮报》联合推荐 并连续报导,堪称近年来不可多见的力作。
1962年的密西西比,距离奥巴马当选总统还有47个年头。白人男子至高无上,女人是漂亮的摆设,有色人种则是不可接触却又不得不接触的贱民。种族冲突此起彼伏,两个女佣,一个大学刚毕业、涉世未深的小姐,冒险开始她们的变革之路。
我们只是不同的两个人,但我们之间不存在难以逾越的隔阂。远远没有我以为的那么难。
作者简介
Kathryn Stockett is an American novelist from Jackson, Mississippi. She is known for her 2009 debut novel, The Help, which is about African American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. The novel climbed best seller charts a few months after it was released. Until 2001, Stockett lived in New York City, where she worked in publishing. She currently lives in Atlanta. Reflective of her first novel, Stockett was raised by an African American domestic worker in lieu of an absentee mother.
凯瑟琳·斯多克特,生长于密西西比州首府杰克逊,在阿拉巴马大学获得文学与创作学位,毕业后移居纽约,从事杂志出版与市场工作九年,她目前与丈夫和女儿居住在亚特兰大。本书是她首部小说。
精彩书评
“The Help by Kathryn Stockett is a story that made me weep as I rejoiced for each of humanity’s small but steady triumphs over hate and fear. I will never forget this wonderful book.”
—Dorothea Benton Frank
“A magical novel. Heartbreaking and oh so true, the voices of these characters, their lives and struggles will stay with you long after you reluctantly come to the end.”
—Robert Hicks, New York Times– bestselling author of The Widow of the South
“I love The Help. Kathryn Stockett has given us glorious characters and a powerful, truth-filled story. Abilene, Minny and Skeeter, show that people from this troubled time came together despite their differences and that ordinary women can be heroic.”
—Jill Conner Browne, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Sweet Potato Queens series and resident of Jackson, MS
“Set in the rural South of the 1960's, THE HELP is a startling, resonant portrait of the intertwined lives of women on opposite sides of the racial divide. Stockett's many gifts – a keen eye for character, a wicked sense of humor, the perfect timing of a natural born storyteller – shine as she evokes a time and place when black women were expected to help raise white babies, and yet could not use the same bathroom as their employers. Her characters, both white and black, are so fully fleshed they practically breathe – no stock villains or pious heroines here. I'm becoming an evangelist for The Help. Don't miss this wise and astonishing debut.”
—Joshilyn Jackson, Bestselling author of Gods in Alabama
“A wonderful book. A compelling and comically poignant tale about three women, and a time and a place that is in many ways very much still with us.”
—Beth Henley, Pulitzer Prize– winning playwright of Crimes of the Heart
“Lush, original, and poignant, Kathryn Stockett has written a wondrous novel. You will be swept away as they work, play, and love during a time when possibilities for women were few but their dreams of the future were limitless. A glorious read.”
—Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of the Big Stone Gap series and Lucia, Lucia
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