天地杂货店 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 400 pages

Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc

Imprint:Riverhead Books,U.S.

Edition:International ed

ISBN:9780593714669

Published:8 Aug 2023

Dimensions:228 x 152 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

詹姆斯·麦克布莱德 (James McBride) 出品，是奥普拉读书俱乐部畅销书《金刚执事》(Deacon King Kong) 和荣获国家图书奖的《好鸟勋爵》 (The Good Lord Bird) 的作者，这是一本关于小镇秘密和守护这些秘密的人的小说

1972 年，当宾夕法尼亚州波茨敦的工人们正在为新开发项目挖掘地基时，他们没想到的是在井底发现了一具骨架。 这具骸骨是谁以及它是如何到达那里的，这是鸡山居民长期以来保守的两个秘密。鸡山是一个破旧的社区，移民和非裔美国人在这里比邻而居，共享野心和悲伤。 当摩西合并他的剧院时，鸡山是摩西和乔纳·勒德洛居住的地方，也是乔纳经营天堂与地球杂货店的地方。 当州政府寻找一名聋哑男孩将他收养时，乔纳和摩西剧院的黑人看门人兼鸡山黑人社区的非官方领导人内特·廷布林共同努力确保男孩的安全。

随着这些人物的故事重叠和加深，生活在白人边缘的人们的挣扎程度以及他们须做什么才能生存就变得清晰起来。 当鸡山发生的事情以及镇上的白人机构在其中所扮演的角色的真相被揭露时，麦克布莱德向我们展示，即使在黑暗时期，也有爱和社区——天堂和大地——支撑着我们。

詹姆斯·麦克布莱德将其高超的讲故事技巧和对人性的深切信念带入了《天地杂货店》，写出了一部像《金刚执事》一样富有同情心、像《好鸟勋爵》一样富有创造力的小说。

From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe.

As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us.

Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird.

作者简介

詹姆斯·麦克布莱德是《纽约时报》畅销书奥普拉读书俱乐部选集《执事金刚》、荣获国家图书奖的《好鸟大人》、美国经典名著《水的颜色》、小说《歌颂》和《圣安娜的奇迹》的作者。 、故事集《Five-Carat Soul》和《杀死他们并离开》，詹姆斯·布朗的传记。 麦克布莱德是国家人文奖章的获得者和一位卓有成就的音乐家，也是纽约大学的一位杰出的常驻作家。

James McBride is the author of the New York Times–bestselling Oprah’s Book Club selection Deacon King Kong, the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, the American classic The Color of Water, the novels Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna, the story collection Five-Carat Soul, and Kill ’Em and Leave, a biography of James Brown. The recipient of a National Humanities Medal and an accomplished musician, McBride is also a distinguished writer in residence at New York University.