每月一本英文书,是我向我家公主下的保证。虽然上个月的还没读完,但这个月我还是拿起了MONKEY BEACH,一位加拿大土著女作家的作品。对于土著印第安人,这些年来,由于工作和从媒体了解,我得承认,自己的看法很复杂。好像每个社会都有那么一个绕不过去的坎儿,像中国的藏人,加拿大的印第安人,澳洲的土著人,美国的黑人。记得考斯比一家播演后,很多白人都为之震惊,原来人家的生活是那样的啊,可以那样有意思和美好啊。同样,MONKEY BEACH也对加拿大的很多人有这样一种影响。我女儿说,读了之后,对印第安人有了一种前所未有的愧疚和尊重。 Is a First Nations woman whose father is Haisla and whose mother is Heiltsuk (Bella Bella). She grew up in Haisla territory near Kitimat, BC., and published her first book - a collection of stories called Traplines - in 1996. Traplines was selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Notable Book of the Year and won the Winifred Holtby Prize for the best first work of fiction in the Commonwealth. With Monkey Beach, her first novel, Robinson weaves comedy and the dark underside of life together in a spellbinding, vividly poignant and often hilarious story about childhood and the pain of growing older. |
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