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☆這是一個跨越種族、國界的樸素故事,卻能在你柔軟的內心掀起洶湧波濤
☆惟有愛與相助的光芒,得以救贖世界人的心。
內容簡介
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.
愛與痛苦,仇恨與信仰,恐懼與勇氣,交集在三十萬字的分量裏,密密麻麻浸潤心靈。《相助》一書中作者以細膩真實的筆觸重現瞭60年代美國南部的種族關係,刻畫瞭艾碧蓮、明尼、雯三個人物形象,大時代的激流教小人物隻能學會隱忍,但當變革的聲音從喉嚨裏發齣,飽滿而又真摯的感情噴薄而齣,誰又能說,這股直抵人心的力量不能給他們的命運帶來救贖?本書齣版之後,版權被三十多國爭先引進,《紐約時報》、《齣版者周刊》、《華盛頓郵報》聯閤推薦 並連續報導,堪稱近年來不可多見的力作。
1962年的密西西比,距離奧巴馬當選總統還有47個年頭。白人男子至高無上,女人是漂亮的擺設,有色人種則是不可接觸卻又不得不接觸的賤民。種族衝突此起彼伏,兩個女傭,一個大學剛畢業、涉世未深的小姐,冒險開始她們的變革之路。
我們隻是不同的兩個人,但我們之間不存在難以逾越的隔閡。遠遠沒有我以為的那麼難。
作者簡介
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.
凱瑟琳·斯多剋特,生長於密西西比州首府傑剋遜,在阿拉巴馬大學獲得文學與創作學位,畢業後移居紐約,從事雜誌齣版與市場工作九年,她目前與丈夫和女兒居住在亞特蘭大。本書是她首部小說。
精彩書評
“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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