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基本信息·出版社：W. W. Norton
·页码：512 页
·出版日期：2007年11月
·ISBN：0393065782
·条形码：9780393065787
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：女黑奴的故事 (小说)
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"You feel you are turning the pages of history, the pages of truth."—Austin Clarke, author of The Polished HoeAbducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom—and of the knowledge she needs to get home. Sold to an indigo trader who recognizes her intelligence, Aminata is torn from her husband and child and thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan, Aminata helps pen the Book of Negroes, a list of blacks rewarded for service to the king with safe passage to Nova Scotia. There Aminata finds a life of hardship and stinging prejudice. When the British abolitionists come looking for "adventurers" to create a new colony in Sierra Leone, Aminata assists in moving 1,200 Nova Scotians to Africa and aiding the abolitionist cause by revealing the realities of slavery to the British public. This captivating story of one woman's remarkable experience spans six decades and three continents and brings to life a crucial chapter in world history.
作者简介 Lawrence Hill is the author of the novels
Any Known Blood and
Some Great Thing and of
The Deserter's Tale (with Joshua Key). He lives in Ontario, Canada.
专业书评 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.
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Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly A terrific character...through her curious eyes, a terrifying patch of history comes to vivid life.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. Julie Wittes Schlack, Boston Globe Aminata is an eloquent guide to 70 years of turbulent history spanning three continents.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. Jennifer Berman, Bookforum [Written] with grace and compassion...an authentic hero.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
