摘浆果的人 The Berry Pickers

基本信息

ISBN-13: 9781405965927

ISBN-10: 1405965924

Author: Amanda Peters

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 320

Release Date: 3 December 2024

Weight: 221g

Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 19mm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

20 世纪 60 年代缅因州炎热的一天，六岁的乔看着他的妹妹露丝坐在蓝莓田边她喜欢的岩石上，而他们的家人（来自新斯科舍省的米克马克人）正在采摘水果。 那天下午，露丝消失得无影无踪。 作为末后一个见到她的人，乔将永远被悲伤、内疚和想象自己的生活会怎样的痛苦所困扰。

在附近的一个富裕郊区，诺玛是不幸父母的独生女。 她聪明、早熟，总是充满一些不被允许问的问题——关于她丢失的婴儿照片的问题；关于她失踪的婴儿照片的问题；关于她失踪的婴儿照片的问题。 关于她黑皮肤的问题； 关于营火的奇怪而生动的梦以及夜复一夜的温暖拥抱的问题。 诺玛感觉到她的父母没有告诉她一些事情，但需要几十年的时间才能解开他们从小女孩起就一直埋藏的秘密。

《摘浆果的人》讲述了一个极其感人的故事，讲述了即使面对悲伤和背叛，仍充满不屈不挠的希望、坚定不移的爱和家庭的力量。

On a hot day in 1960s Maine, six-year-old Joe watches his little sister Ruthie, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of the blueberry fields, while their family, Mi’kmaq people from Nova Scotia, pick fruit. That afternoon, Ruthie vanishes without a trace. As the last person to see her, Joe will be forever haunted by grief, guilt, and the agony of imagining how his life could have been.

In an affluent suburb nearby, Norma is growing up as the only child of unhappy parents. She is smart, precocious, and bursting with questions she isn’t allowed to ask – questions about her missing baby photos; questions about her dark skin; questions about the strange, vivid dreams of campfires and warm embraces that return night after night. Norma senses there are things her parents aren’t telling her, but it will take decades to unravel the secrets they have kept buried since she was a little girl.

The Berry Pickers is an exquisitely moving story of unrelenting hope, unwavering love, and the power of family – even in the face of grief and betrayal.

作者简介

阿曼达·彼得斯 (AMANDA PETERS) 是一位拥有米克马克和定居者血统的作家。 她毕业于新墨西哥州圣达菲美国印第安艺术学院 (IAIA) 美术硕士课程，并获得多伦多大学创意写作证书。 她是 2021 年未发表散文原住民之声奖的获得者，也是 2021 年作家信托新星计划的参与者。 她住在新斯科舍省安纳波利斯谷。 《摘浆果的人》是她的小说。

AMANDA PETERS is a writer of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry. A graduate of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she has a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose and a participant in the 2021 Writers’ Trust Rising Stars program. She lives in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. The Berry Pickers is her novel.