Someone Knows My Name: A Novel (平装)
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品牌: Lawrence Hill
基本信息出版社:W. W. Norton & Co. (2008年11月17日)外文书名:女黑奴的故事 (小说)平装:486页正文语种:英语ISBN:0393333094条形码:9780393333091产品尺寸及重量:20.6 x 14 x 3.3 cm ; 409 gASIN:0393333094商品描述内容简介Based on a true story, "The Book of Negroes" tells the story of Aminata, a young girl abducted from her village in Mali aged 11 in 1755, and who, after a deathly journey on a slave ship where she witnesses the brutal repression of a slave revolt, is sold to a plantation owner in South Carolina, who rapes her. She is brought to New York, where she escapes her owner, and finds herself helping the British by recording all the freed slaves on the British side in the Revolutionary War in The Book of Negroes (a real historical document that can be found today at the National Archives at Kew).Aminata is sent to Nova Scotia to start a new life, but finds more hostility, oppression and tragedy. Separated from her one true love, and suffering the unimaginable loss of both her children who are taken away from her, she eventually joins a group of freed slaves on a harrowing odyssey back to Africa, and ends up in London as a living icon for Wilberforce and the other Abolitionists. "The Book of Negroes" is a pageturning narrative that manages to use Aminata's heart-rending personal story to bring to life a harrowing chapter in our history.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.编辑推荐From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review.Stunning, wrenching and inspiring, the fourth novel by Canadian novelist Hill (Any Known Blood) spans the life of Aminata Diallo, born in Bayo, West Africa, in 1745. The novel opens in 1802, as Aminata is wooed in London to the cause of British abolitionists, and begins reflecting on her life. Kidnapped at the age of 11 by British slavers, Aminata survives the Middle Passage and is reunited in South Carolina with Chekura, a boy from a village near hers. Her story gets entwined with his, and with those of her owners: nasty indigo producer Robinson Appleby and, later, Jewish duty inspector Solomon Lindo. During her long life of struggle, she does what she can to free herself and others from slavery, including learning to read and teaching others to, and befriending anyone who can help her, black or white. Hill handles the pacing and tension masterfully, particularly during the beginnings of the American revolution, when the British promise to free Blacks who fight for the British: Aminata's related, eventful travels to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone follow. In depicting a woman who survives history's most trying conditions through force of intelligence and personality, Hill's book is a harrowing, breathtaking tour de force.(Nov.)
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Review
A terrific character...through her curious eyes, a terrifying patch of history comes to vivid life. --Jennifer Reese,Entertainment Weekly
Aminata is an eloquent guide to 70 years of turbulent history spanning three continents. --Julie Wittes Schlack,Boston Globe
[Written] with grace and compassion...an authentic hero. --Jennifer Berman,Bookforum
