书名：God Help the Child上帝帮助孩子-英版
作者：Toni Morrison托妮莫里森
出版社名称：Vintage
出版时间：2016
语种：英语
ISBN：9780099555926
商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：192（以实物为准）

God Help the Child《上帝帮助孩子》是美国当代知名黑人女作家托妮·莫里森的作品。小说关注童年时期心理创伤对成长的影响与困扰，表现了其对当代社会问题的强烈关注。本书适合对当代英美文学和社会生活感兴趣的书迷朋友阅读。

推荐理由：

1.以当代为背景的英文原版小说，语言精炼易懂，有助于读者学习英语语言，提高文学素养；

2.莫里森曾获诺贝尔文学奖，视角独特，文笔自然流畅；

3.小说塑造了具有当代特点的黑人女性形象，一经发表，立刻出售20万册，登上各大畅销书榜。

Review

"It is so beautifully written, full of perfect sentences…with such profound understanding of sympathy for her damaged characters… This is a wise, humane, enriching novel. If it should prove to be Toni Morrison’s last, it is quite a finale" (Allan Massie Scotsman)

"Slim but powerful… A tale that is as forceful as it is affecting, as fierce as it is resonant" (Michiko Kakutani New York Times)

"And the writing. Oh wow, the writing. Not for nothing has Morrison been garlanded with a Novel Prize, Pulitzer and National Book Critics Circle Award. There’s always a sense of grand occasion when Morrison releases a book, and with good reason: the journey is always vivid, dazzling and rich, each paragraph a mealy morsel in its own right. A highly personal and affecting tale that manages to be deftly political, God Help the Child is emotionally rousing and gut-wrenching" (Tanya Sweeney Irish Independent)

"A piece of mastery ... Sensitive to legacies of abuse, to pressures of racism, image, taboo and economics, and to the harmful fictions and common social madnesses of the modern Western world, it found an impossible-seeming, myth-like form to reveal the interconnections between these, never losing its streetwise footing in the process." (Ali Smith New Statesman, Books of the Year)

God Help the Child《上帝帮助孩子》通过不同的叙述者来讲述一位自称为布莱德（Bride）的化妆品公司的设计员的故事。她开着价值不菲的捷豹车，身着昂贵的一身白色服装。成年的她，可谓功成名就，衣服华丽，相貌香艳。然而，她的童年和现在却有天壤之别，她生于二十世纪九十年代，她的母亲看到她皮肤像“午夜一样黑”，认为她极端丑陋……

At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride’s mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that“what you do to children matters. And they might never forget.”

托妮·莫里森（Toni Morrison，1931年2月18日～）美国黑人女作家，生于俄亥俄州洛雷恩。20世纪60年代末登上文坛，其作品情感炽热，简短而富有诗意，并以对美国黑人生活的敏锐观察闻名。主要作品有《最蓝的眼睛》（1970）《苏拉》（1974）《所罗门之歌》（1977）和《柏油娃》（1981）等。她所主编的《黑人之书》（The Black Book），记叙了美国黑人300年历史，被称为“美国黑人史的百科全书”。托妮·莫里森1989年起出任普林斯顿大学教授，讲授文学创作。其主要成就在于长篇小说方面，1993年获诺贝尔文学奖，2015年3月获得“全美书评人协会奖”终身成就奖。

Toni Morrison is an American novelist, editor, and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels areThe Bluest Eye (1970),Sula (1973),Song of Solomon (1977), andBeloved (1987). Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.