天地杂货店 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

基本信息

Format:Hardback 384 pages

Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc

Imprint:Riverhead Books,U.S.

ISBN:9780593422946

Published:8 Aug 2023

Dimensions:228 x 152 (mm)

Pub. Country:United States

Country of Origin:GB

Tariff Codes:49019900

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

♦ 1972年，当宾夕法尼亚州波茨敦的工人们在为一个新的开发项目挖掘地基时，他们发现井底有一具骷髅。这具骷髅是谁，以及它是如何到达那里的，是鸡山居民长期保守的两个秘密。

♦ 鸡山是一个破旧的社区，犹太人和非裔美国人在这里并肩生活，分享野心和悲伤。鸡山是摩西和乔纳-鲁德洛居住的地方，当时摩西整合了他的剧院，乔纳在那里经营天地杂货店。当州政府来找一个聋哑男孩，要把他送进福利院时，是乔娜和内特-蒂姆布林，即莫什剧院的黑人看门人和鸡山黑人社区的非官方领导人，一起努力保护这个男孩的安全。随着这些人物的故事的重叠和深化，我们可以清楚地看到生活在美国白人、教徒边缘的人们是如何挣扎的，以及他们为了生存需要做什么。当鸡山事件的真相被揭开，以及镇上的白人机构在其中所扮演的角色时，麦克布莱德告诉我们，即使在黑暗时期，也是爱和社区，天堂和大地，在支撑着我们。

♦ 詹姆斯-麦克布赖德将他高超的讲故事技巧和对人类的信念带到了《天地杂货店》中，他写出了一部像《金刚执事》一样富有同情心、像《好鸟》一样富有创造力的小说。

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 Jews 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, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally 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-麦克布赖德（生于1957年9月11日） 是美国作家和音乐家。1979年毕业于欧柏林学院，1980年在哥伦比亚大学新闻研究生院获得新闻学学位 。他因其小说《好鸟》获得2013年国家图书奖的小说奖。

James McBride (born September 11, 1957) is an American writer and musician. McBride graduated from Oberlin College in 1979, and received his journalism degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1980.He is the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for fiction for his novel The Good Lord Bird.