让我们沉沦 杰丝米妮·瓦德 Jesmyn Ward 奥普拉读书俱乐部 英文原版 Let Us Descend

基本信息

• 出版社 ? : ? BLOOMSBURY (2023年 10月 1日)
• 语言 ? : ? 英语
• ISBN-10 ? : ? 1526666723
• ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-1526666727
• 商品重量 ? : ? 405 g
• 尺寸 ? : ? 15.5 x 2.5 x 23.6 cm

内容介绍

杰斯敏-沃德（Jesmyn Ward）曾两度获得美国国家图书奖，是美国国会图书馆小说奖年轻的获奖者，

也是麦克阿瑟奖获得者，她的作品讲述了南北战争前几年一个被奴役的女孩的故事，是一部令人难忘的杰作，必将成为一部经典之作。

"'让我们降临'，诗人现在开始说，'进入这个盲目的世界'"。- 地狱篇》，但丁-阿利吉耶里

让我们下山》是对美国奴隶制的再现，描绘精美，令人心碎。这部小说充满了追寻、痛苦和超凡脱俗的爱，

是一次从卡罗莱纳州稻田到新奥尔良奴隶市场，再到路易斯安那州蔗糖种植园的可怕中心的旅程。

安妮丝被生她养她的白人奴隶主卖到南方，她是读者在这个地狱般的环境中的向导。在长达数英里的行军途中，

安妮丝不断向内求索，从对母亲的回忆和非洲战士祖母的故事中寻求慰藉。在整个过程中，她向这个世界之外的世界敞开了自己的心扉，

这个世界充满了泥土和水，充满了神话和历史；充满了孕育和给予的精灵，也充满了操纵和夺取的精灵。

虽然沃德带领读者经历了沉沦，但这是她的第四部小说，最终是一个关于重生和开垦的故事。

作为同代人中杰出、受爱戴的作家之一，这部奇迹般的小说将美国黑人的悲欢离合写进了这片土地--

美国南方富饶但无情的森林、沼泽和河流。《让我们降临》是杰斯敏-沃德迄今为止宏伟的小说，是一部旷世杰作。

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.

“‘Let us descend,’ the poet now began, ‘and enter this blind world.’” — Inferno, Dante Alighieri

Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.

Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation.

From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet, a masterwork for the ages.