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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
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.
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 was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. This is her first novel.
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 other side of Gone with the Wind - and just as unputdownable.
--The Sunday Times
A big, warm girlfriend of a book.
--The Times
Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird has changed lives. It's direct descendent The Help has the same potential . . . an astonishing feat of accomplishment.
--Daily Express
Outstanding, immensely funny, very compelling, brilliant.
--Daily Telegraph
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