我们跟随BBC文化频道的推荐,为大家编译了4月份不容错过的十本好书。从超现实主义短篇小说到对全球十二棵树的观察记录,本月你该把这些书放到你的书架上了。
Michel Stone, Border Child
迈克尔•斯通 《边境小孩》
In Stone's first novel, The Iguana Tree, Héctor makes the risky border crossing from Mexico into the US and finds a good job in South Carolina. When his wife Lilia follows him, she is separated from their infant daughter Alejandra. Border Child begins several years later, back in their home village in Oaxaca, where both of them mourn their Alejandra, fearing she is dead. Then comes a message that they might be able to find her. As Lilia prepares for the birth of their third child, haunted by the consequences of her actions, Héctor sets off on a search that leads to a possibility neither had considered. Stone makes palpable the vulnerabilities and exploitation of Lilia and Héctor, hard-working parents seeking a better future for their family. (Credit: Doubleday)
在斯通的第一部小说《鬣蜥树》中,赫克托从墨西哥冒险跨越边境来到美国,之后在南卡罗来纳州谋得一份好工作。赫克托的妻子莉莉娅在跟随他时,被迫和他们年幼的孩子阿莱杭德娜分开。几年后,当赫克托和妻子回到他们在瓦哈卡的家乡,为可能已经死去的孩子阿莱杭德娜悲伤时,《边境小孩》的故事由此展开。这时,有消息传来说他们或许能找到阿莱杭德娜。在莉莉娅准备生育第三个孩子时,赫克托对妻子怀孕带来的后续影响很是苦恼,于是他动身去探寻阿莱杭德娜的下落,由此遇到了以前从未设想过的事情。通过描写莉莉娅和赫克托为了家庭的美好未来而辛苦奋斗的过程,斯通让读者真切感受到了这对父母身处弱势深受剥削的境地。
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