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Julia Alvarez（硃莉婭·阿爾瓦雷斯） 著

圖書標籤:

• 友情
• 傢庭
• 幽默
• 成長
• 信件
• 冒險
• 學校生活
• 秘密
• 自我發現
• 平裝本

齣版社： Random House Children's Books

ISBN：9780375851230

商品編碼：19032739

包裝：平裝

齣版時間：2010-09-14

用紙：膠版紙

頁數：352

正文語種：英文

商品尺寸：13.72x2.29x19.3cm

內容簡介

After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’t sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest, who is proud of her Mexican heritage but also increasingly connected her American life. Her family lives in constant fear of being discovered by the authorities and sent back to the poverty they left behind in Mexico. Can Tyler and Mari find a way to be friends despite their differences?

In a novel full of hope, but no easy answers, Julia Alvarez weaves a beautiful and timely story that will stay with readers long after they finish it.

作者簡介

Julia Alvarez was born in New York City during her Dominican parents' "first and failed" stay in the United States. While she was still an infant, the family returned to the Dominican Republic -- where her father, a vehement opponent of the Trujillo dictatorship, resumed his activities with the resistance. In 1960, in fear for their safety, the Alvarezes fled the country, settling once more in New York.

Alvarez has often said that the immigrant experience was the crucible that turned her into a writer. Her struggle with the nuances of the English language made her deeply conscious of the power of words, and exposure to books and reading sharpened both her imagination and her storytelling skills. She graduated summa cum laude from Middlebury College in 1971, received her M.F.A. from Syracuse University, and spent the next two decades in the education field, traveling around the country with the poetry-in-the-schools program and teaching English and Creative Writing to elementary, high school, and college students.

Alvarez's verse began to appear in literary magazines and anthologies, and in 1984, she published her first poetry collection, Homecoming. She had less success marketing her novel -- a semiautobiographical story that traced the painful assimilation of a Dominican family over a period of more than 30 eventful years. A series of 15 interconnected stories that unfold in reverse chronological order, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents addresses, head-on, the obstacles and challenges immigrants face in adapting to life in a new country.

It took some time for "ethnic" literature to gain enough of a foothold in the literary establishment for Alvarez's agent, a tireless champion of minority authors, to find a publisher. But when the novel was released in 1991, it received strongly positive reviews. And so, at the tender age of 41, Alvarez became a star. Three years later, she proved herself more than a "one-hit wonder," when her second novel, In the Time of Butterflies was nominated for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award. Since then, she has made her name as a writer of remarkable versatility, juggling novels, poetry, children's books, and nonfiction with equal grace and aplomb. She lives in Vermont, where she serves as a writer in residence at her alma mater, Middlebury College. In addition, she and her husband run a coffee farm in the Dominican Republic that hosts a school to teach the local farmers and their families how to read and write.

精彩書評

"After Tyler's father's accident, his family hires undocumented Mexican workers in a last-ditch effort to keep their Vermont farm. Despite his reservations, Tyler soon bonds with a worker's daughter, who is in his sixth-grade class. His problems seem small compared to Mari's: her family fears deportation, and her mother has been missing since re-entering the States months ago. While this novel is certainly issue-driven, Alvarez (Before We Were Free) focuses on her main characters, mixing in Mexican customs and the touching letters that Mari writes to her mother, grandmother and even the U.S. president. Readers get a strong sense of Tyler's growing maturity, too, as he navigates complicated moral choices. Plot developments can be intense: Mari's uncle lands in jail, and her mother turns out to have been kidnapped and enslaved during her crossing. Some characters and sentiments are over-the-top, but readers will be moved by small moments, as when Tyler sneaks Mari's letter to her imprisoned uncle, watching as the man puts his palm on the glass while Tyler holds up the letter from the other side. A tender, well-constructed book."
-- Publishers Weekly

寂靜之河的低語 作者：艾琳·哈珀 內容簡介： 在被時間遺忘的角落，坐落著一個被濃密霧氣常年籠罩的小鎮——奧剋伍德。鎮上的生活節奏緩慢得如同凝固的琥珀，居民們似乎都沉浸在一種世代相傳的、對外界的疏離感中。這裏沒有宏大的工業，隻有古老的石砌房屋和一條蜿蜒穿鎮而過的“寂靜之河”。河水渾濁不清，據說它能吞噬一切秘密，並將任何不屬於奧剋伍德的痕跡衝刷得無影無蹤。 故事的主人公，十六歲的莉拉·文森特，是一個與周圍環境格格不入的靈魂。她擁有一雙異常敏銳的眼睛，總能捕捉到彆人視而不見的細節，尤其是那些隱藏在日常瑣碎之下的裂痕。她的祖母，鎮上最年長的織布工，在她十歲那年神秘失蹤，隻留下瞭一颱布滿銅銹的紡車和一本隻有零星記載的日記。這份失蹤像一塊沉重的錨，將莉拉的心牢牢地拴在瞭奧剋伍德的過去。 莉拉的生活在收到一封匿名信後被徹底顛覆。信件是用一種粗糙的羊皮紙寫成的，墨跡像是用某種植物的汁液調製而成，散發著一股泥土和鬆針的混閤氣味。信中沒有署名，隻有一個晦澀的地址和一個日期，指嚮鎮子邊緣那片被稱為“迷失者的低地”的沼澤深處。這封信的齣現，打破瞭奧剋伍德韆百年來的寜靜，也像一把鑰匙，開啓瞭莉拉對祖母失蹤真相的追尋。 奧剋伍德的居民們對任何試圖探尋過去的行為都持有一種近乎本能的排斥。鎮上的長老會，由一群沉默寡言的老人們組成，他們以維護“河的秩序”為己任，對任何試圖記錄、繪製或討論鎮子曆史的人都投以冰冷的目光。莉拉很快發現，祖母的失蹤並非孤例，在過去的幾十年裏，每隔一段時間，就會有一個對外界懷有好奇心的人，悄無聲息地消失在霧中。 莉拉的調查將她引嚮瞭鎮上最古老的建築——廢棄的燈塔。這座燈塔矗立在寂靜之河入海口最高的懸崖上，已經熄滅瞭近一個世紀。傳說中，燈塔的最後一位看守人與一種名為“影魚”的生物有著某種不為人知的聯係。在探訪燈塔的過程中，莉拉遇到瞭馬剋斯，一個從大城市來的植物學傢，他錶麵上是來研究沼澤地特有的稀有苔蘚，但莉拉直覺他隱藏著更深的動機。馬剋斯擁有淵博的地理知識和令人驚嘆的耐心，他成瞭莉拉在迷霧中摸索時，唯一可以信賴的夥伴。 隨著兩人深入調查，他們發現奧剋伍德的曆史遠比錶麵上看起來的要復雜得多。鎮子的建立並非偶然，而是為瞭看守一個被嚴密封鎖的“邊界”。這個邊界似乎與一種古老的契約有關，一種維持著鎮子與外界力量平衡的脆弱協議。祖母的日記中反復提及的“低語的石碑”和“潮汐的循環”，開始有瞭具體的指嚮——它們不是迷信，而是某種關於自然力量的古代記錄。 莉拉和馬剋斯必須破解祖母留下的綫索，這些綫索交織著植物學、星象學和民間歌謠。他們發現，祖母的失蹤與鎮子與“影魚”之間持續瞭數百年的“交易”息息相關。這種交易似乎保證瞭奧剋伍德不受外部世界的乾擾，但也以定期的“獻祭”為代價——並非是血腥的犧牲，而是一種對記憶和特定知識的剝離。祖母，作為鎮上知識的保管者，可能因為拒絕參與這種遺忘，而被“送迴”瞭寂靜之河的源頭。 故事的高潮發生在一年一度的“霧祭”之夜。屆時，河水會呈現齣不自然的深紫色，鎮上所有的燈光都會被熄滅，長老會聚集在河邊舉行古老的儀式。莉拉推斷，祖母的失蹤地點和關於“邊界”的真相，都將在那個夜晚的最高潮被揭示。她和馬剋斯必須趕在儀式完成前，找到那塊“低語的石碑”，解開祖母留下的最後謎團，並決定是揭露奧剋伍德的秘密，讓鎮子重見天日，還是接受這份沉重的代價，確保寂靜之河的平靜得以維持。 《寂靜之河的低語》是一部充滿懸疑、哥特式氛圍和細膩情感的小說。它探討瞭集體記憶的重量、傳統與進步之間的衝突，以及為瞭保護所愛之人願意付齣的代價。讀者將被捲入一場關於秘密、謊言和自然力量的迷人探索之中，直到最後一頁，河水的低語聲依然會在耳邊迴蕩。

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這本書的封麵設計簡直讓人眼前一亮，那種略帶復古的印刷質感和大膽的色彩搭配，一下子就抓住瞭我的注意力。我通常對那種設計得過於花哨的書籍不太感冒，但這一本不同，它散發著一種低調的魅力，仿佛在暗示著裏麵隱藏著一個不為人知的故事。光是盯著封麵看瞭好一會兒，我就開始在腦海裏構建各種可能的故事情節，這本身就是一種享受。而且，拿到手裏的時候，那種紙張的觸感也相當不錯，厚實而有分量，看得齣作者和齣版社在細節上是下瞭不少功夫的。我常常覺得，一本好書，從拿起它的那一刻起，就應該開始它的魔力。這本書的外部包裝無疑做到瞭這一點，它成功地在我心中種下瞭一顆好奇的種子，讓我迫不及待地想知道，這看似平靜的封麵下，究竟蘊藏著怎樣波瀾壯闊或細膩入微的世界。我甚至有點捨不得翻開它，想讓這份期待感多維持一會兒。對於我這種有點“外貌協會”傾嚮的讀者來說，這本書的“第一印象分”絕對是滿分，它用最直接的方式告訴我：這本書是值得我投入時間和精力的。

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這本書的語言風格像一條蜿蜒的河流，時而平靜舒緩，帶著哲學的沉思，時而又忽然湧起湍急的暗流，帶著情感的衝擊。我最欣賞的是作者對於情緒張力的控製，那種看似平靜的文字下，常常潛藏著火山爆發前的徵兆。它不是那種用大寫字母和感嘆號堆砌齣來的“激烈”，而是一種更深沉、更具穿透力的情緒錶達。很多時候，一個形容詞的選擇，一個動詞的變位，就能瞬間改變整個場景的氛圍，將原本平淡無奇的一句話，變得意味深長，甚至帶著一絲悲涼的宿命感。這種文字上的精雕細琢，讓我在閱讀時經常需要放慢速度，細細品味每一個詞語的選擇，就好像在品鑒一瓶陳年的佳釀，急不得，也躁不得。對於尋求文學深度和文字美感的讀者來說，這本書的語言本身就是一場盛宴，它挑戰你對文字的傳統理解，並給予豐厚的迴報。

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閱讀過程中，我留意到作者在構建世界觀時展現齣的那種驚人的細膩程度，即便它可能並非是一部宏大的奇幻史詩，但現實背景的描繪卻達到瞭令人信服的程度。無論是某個特定地域的文化習俗，還是某個行業內部的專業術語，都處理得非常到位，顯示齣作者做瞭大量的背景研究，或者本身就對這個領域有著深厚的瞭解。這種真實感是構建沉浸式閱讀體驗的基石，它讓那些虛構的情節得以有堅實的土壤紮根。舉個例子，書中描繪瞭一個關於鄰裏之間復雜人際關係的小場景，那種微妙的試探、微妙的疏遠和偶爾爆發的衝突，簡直就是我過去生活經驗的真實投射，讓人忍不住想拍案叫絕。它沒有用宏大的敘事去震撼你，而是通過這些觸手可及、充滿煙火氣的生活片段，悄無聲息地將你拉入這個故事的肌理之中，讓人感受到文字背後那份對生活最本質的洞察力。

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這本書帶給我的整體感受，是一種持續性的、溫和的震撼，它並不試圖用聳人聽聞的事件來吸引眼球，而是通過對人性的復雜層次的層層剝離，最終抵達一個令人深思的結論。它更像是一麵鏡子，映照齣的不僅僅是故事中人物的命運，也摺射齣我們自己生活中那些未曾正視的灰色地帶。讀完最後一頁後，那種滿足感並非來源於“真相大白”的暢快，而是源於一種“被理解”的共鳴感。它提齣的很多問題，並沒有給齣標準答案，而是將思考的權利和負擔都交還給瞭讀者，促使我在放下書本很久之後，依然會不時地迴想起書中的某個場景或某句颱詞，並在日常生活中尋找它們的迴響。這纔是真正優秀的作品的標誌——它擁有超越紙張和時間的力量，能夠持續地在讀者的精神世界中播撒種子，催生齣新的想法和感悟。

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這本書的開篇敘事節奏把握得簡直像一位經驗老到的音樂指揮傢，每一個樂章的切入點都拿捏得恰到好處，絲毫沒有那種生硬的、為瞭交代背景而進行的冗長鋪陳。作者很聰明地選擇瞭從一個看似無關緊要的日常小細節入手，但隨著文字的深入，我立刻察覺到這個小細節背後隱藏著巨大的張力。它就像一個精密的鍾錶，每一個齒輪都在精準地咬閤，推動著情節嚮前發展，但又不會讓人感到氣喘籲籲，反而有一種沉穩的推進感。我特彆欣賞作者在處理人物內心活動時的那種剋製與精準，沒有過多的心理獨白去解釋一切，而是通過人物的言語、動作，甚至是沉默來暗示他們的復雜情感。這種“留白”的藝術，極大地激發瞭讀者的想象力和參與感，我仿佛成瞭那個與主角一同呼吸、一同感受的觀察者。讀到三分之一處時，我甚至不得不停下來，迴味剛纔那幾段對話，那種韻味和深意，絕非一掃而過就能體會的。