2023年 8月 24日 engapi 英文书籍 0

ISBN号:9780593422960 书名:The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store 作者:James McBride 出版日期:2023-08-08

英文简介: “A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing. ” –Danez Smith, The New York Times Book Review “We all need–we all deserve–this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us. ” –Ron Charles, The Washington Post From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community–heaven and earth–that sustain us. Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird.

中文简介: “一部伟大的美国小说中隐藏着一个谋杀之谜……迷人、聪明、令人心碎、治愈人心。 ” ——达内兹·史密斯，《纽约时报书评》 ——罗恩·查尔斯，《华盛顿邮报》 摘自詹姆斯·麦克布赖德 (James McBride)，他是奥普拉读书俱乐部精选的畅销书《执事金刚》(Deacon King Kong) 的作者，以及荣获国家图书奖的《好鸟勋爵》(The Good Lord Bird)，这是一本关于小镇秘密以及守护这些秘密的人的小说，于 1972 年出版宾夕法尼亚州波茨敦的工人们正在为新开发项目挖掘地基时，他们最没想到会在井底找到一具骨架。 这具骸骨是谁以及它是如何到达那里的，这是鸡山居民长期以来保守的两个秘密。 鸡山是一个破旧的社区，犹太移民和非裔美国人在这里比邻而居，共享野心和悲伤。 当摩西合并他的剧院时，鸡山是摩西和乔纳·勒德洛居住的地方，也是乔纳经营天堂与地球杂货店的地方。 当州政府寻找一名聋哑男孩将其送入收容机构时，乔纳和内特·廷布林（摩西剧院的黑人看门人以及鸡山黑人社区的非官方领导人）共同努力确保男孩的安全。 随着这些人物的故事重叠和加深，生活在白人、基督教美国边缘的人们是多么挣扎，以及他们必须做什么才能生存，这一点变得显而易见。 当鸡山发生的事情以及镇上的白人机构在其中所扮演的角色的真相最终被揭露时，麦克布莱德向我们展示，即使在黑暗时期，也有爱和社区——天堂和大地——支撑着我们。 詹姆斯·麦克布莱德将其高超的讲故事技巧和对人性的深切信仰带入了《天地杂货店》，写出了一部像《金刚执事》一样富有同情心、像《好鸟勋爵》一样富有创造力的小说。

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