注:Biafra:比拉夫现属尼日利亚的一部分,位于其东南角,居民多为伊博人(Igbo)。1967年比拉夫宣布独立,而后开始尼日利亚内战,直至1970年比拉夫重归尼日利亚,为这场战争拉上帷幕。有兴趣的同学可以搜这本书的同名电影看~
11. Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000)
查蒂·史密斯的《白牙》(2000年出版)
As White Teeth unfolds, it is chockablock with vivid scenes and characters, a portrait of postcolonial multicultural London: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks."
当《白牙》将故事娓娓道来,书中生动的场景、鲜活的人物都跃然纸上,展现了后殖民时期多族裔混居的伦敦:“孩子们的名字就是文化碰撞的直接展示,隐含了大逃亡、拥挤的飞机船只、寒冷中抵达和医疗检查等意思。”
12. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2002)
杰弗里·尤金尼德斯的《中性》(2002年出版)
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974,” Eugenides writes in the opening lines of his novel. Middlesex bridged the gap between critical and commercial acclaim, as well, winning a Pulitzer and selling millions of copies.
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