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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

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內容簡介 歐普拉讀書會推薦書！她的故事，就是美國的故事。✰榮獲美國國家書評人協會獎紐時暢榜家族史詩國家圖書獎入圍詩人發表首部小說，私密而全面地描述一個美國南方非裔家庭，從交易奴隸的殖民時代、美國南北內戰，直到現代的數世紀世代遞嬗。受美國民權運動家、首位取得哈佛博士學位的非裔美國人啟發，少女深入探索家族過往，挖掘黑人、白人、與美國原住民交錯的驚人家族史。THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERAN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK‘Deeply moving’ Sarah Winman, author of Still Life‘Remarkable’ Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish)‘A sweeping epic … Outstanding’ Daily MailAiley Pearl Garfield grows up between the City in the north and summers spent in her mother’s small hometown of Chicasetta, Georgia. From an early age, she finds herself in a battle for belonging that’s made all the more difficult by a hurt in her past, as well as the whispers of women―her mother, Belle, her sister, Lydia, and a maternal line reaching back two centuries―that urge Ailey to succeed in their stead.To come to terms with her identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family’s past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors―Indigenous, Black, and white―in the deep South. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story―and the song―of America itself.‘Mesmerising… magnificent’ Independent‘Astonishing… A great work infused with love and honesty’ Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple‘Gripping, gorgeous. A sweeping family saga that is also history at its most intimate and vital’ Stef Penney, author of The Tenderness of WolvesLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION • SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN LITERARY PRIZENew York Times 10 Best Books of the Year • Time 10 Best Books of the Year • Washington Post 10 Best Books of the Year • People 10 Best Books of the Year • Booklist 10 Best First Novels of the Year"

作者介紹

作者介紹 Honoree Fanonne Jeffers Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a fiction writer, poet, and essayist. She is the author of five poetry collections, including The Age of Phillis, which won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry, was longlisted for a National Book Award, and was a finalist for the PEN Voelcker Award for Poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Oklahoma.

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