具体描述
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as “one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years” (Baltimore Sun ), with “prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes” ( The Boston Globe ); The Washington Post called her “the twenty-first-century daughter of Chinua Achebe.” Her award-winning Half of a Yellow Sun became an instant classic upon its publication three years later, once again putting her tremendous gifts—graceful storytelling, knowing compassion, and fierce insight into her characters’ hearts—on display. Now, in her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Adichie turns her penetrating eye on not only Nigeria but America, in twelve dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.
In “A Private Experience,” a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she’s been pushing away. In “Tomorrow is Too Far,” a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother’s death. The young mother at the center of “Imitation” finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to reexamine them.
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie’s signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them. The Thing Around Your Neck is a resounding confirmation of the prodigious literary powers of one of our most essential writers.
From the Hardcover edition.
作者简介
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria.
Her work has been translated into over thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book; and Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. Ms. Adichie is also the author of the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck.
Ms. Adichie has been invited to speak around the world. Her 2009 TED Talk, The Danger of A Single Story, is now one of the most-viewed TED Talks of all time. Her 2012 talk We Should All Be Feminists has a started a worldwide conversation about feminism, and was published as a book in 2014.
Her most recent book, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, was published in March 2017.
A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Ms. Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
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读后感
尼日利亚太遥远了，不仅是地理位置的遥远，还有文化心理上的遥远。 我开始“文学带我看世界”这个计划的时候，还大致分了区块，尼日利亚，非洲，西非，西非就有好多国家，我能闭上眼睛想起世界地图上非洲大陆的模样，所以西非大概在哪里，有个大概的印象。我没有去查背景资料，...
I would recommend “The Thing Around Your Neck” in this short-story collection. If you like the idea of “the exotic”, this story will show, once again, that “the exotic” exists nowhere else but in your own mind, and as always, says everything about you...
I would recommend “The Thing Around Your Neck” in this short-story collection. If you like the idea of “the exotic”, this story will show, once again, that “the exotic” exists nowhere else but in your own mind, and as always, says everything about you...
I would recommend “The Thing Around Your Neck” in this short-story collection. If you like the idea of “the exotic”, this story will show, once again, that “the exotic” exists nowhere else but in your own mind, and as always, says everything about you...
I would recommend “The Thing Around Your Neck” in this short-story collection. If you like the idea of “the exotic”, this story will show, once again, that “the exotic” exists nowhere else but in your own mind, and as always, says everything about you...
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读罢全书，我有一种强烈的感受：作者似乎并未急于下结论，她更像是一位冷静的观察者，将一幕幕具有普适性的生存困境摆在我们面前，然后礼貌地退后，将解读的权力完全交给了读者。这种处理方式，避免了说教的风险，却使得作品的感染力更上一层楼。那些关于文化身份的迷失、关于代际差异的鸿沟，都以一种不带情绪批判的口吻讲述出来，反而更显得其深刻与沉重。这本书的节奏感把握得非常微妙，它不像某些作品那样追求高潮迭起，而是通过持续的、低沉的情绪铺垫，最终在不经意间，达到一种强大的情感共振。它要求读者以一种非常开放和接纳的心态去面对那些不完美、不圆满的结局，去理解人类经验中那些难以言喻的灰色地带。总而言之，这是一次极具启发性、甚至可以说是略带颠覆性的阅读体验，它挑战了我们对“完整故事”的既有期待，转而颂扬了生活本身的碎片化和复杂性。
如果用一个词来形容阅读这本集子的整体体验，那便是“穿透力”。作者似乎拥有一种近乎超自然的能力，能够直达人物精神世界的最深处，剥开社会强加的种种面具，直面那些最原始的恐惧和渴望。我尤其被那些关于“等待”的主题所吸引，人物们似乎总是在某个模糊的未来中抱持着一丝不确定的希望，这种对未知的执着与现实的无情碰撞，构成了强烈的戏剧张力。她描绘的女性角色尤其令人印象深刻，她们不是扁平的符号，而是充满了矛盾和韧性的鲜活个体，她们在既定的社会框架内努力寻找着呼吸的空间，有时成功，更多时候是带着伤痕前行。这种对个体在巨大社会机器中挣扎的刻画，具有极强的时代共鸣感，让人在阅读自己的人生脚本时，不由自主地将这些文字中的情绪投射进去。它不是那种读完就扔的书，它会像一根细小的刺，留在你的记忆里，时不时地提醒你那些尚未解决的内心冲突。
这本书的叙事结构和主题的跨度，让我联想到一些古典文学中对“寓言”的精妙处理，但又披着一层极度现代的、都市化的外衣。故事之间的跳跃性很大，但仔细捋下来，会发现它们之间存在着一种无形的、精神层面的连结，关于漂泊、关于记忆的不可靠性，以及我们如何努力构建一个可以安身的“自我”的概念。作者的散文笔法时不时地渗入叙事，使得文本的质地非常独特，既有小说的情节驱动力，又保有诗歌般的凝练和意境。我非常欣赏她处理语言的精准度，她很少使用浮夸的形容词，而是通过精确的动词和场景搭建，让画面自己说话。例如，某处对一个简单动作的细致描写，其蕴含的情感力量，远胜过千言万语的内心独白。这种“少即是多”的写作哲学，在这部作品中得到了淋漓尽致的体现，让人在惊叹之余，也不禁反思自己日常表达的冗余之处。
这本薄薄的文集，像是一串挂在心头、时而清晰时而模糊的梦境碎片，每一次翻阅都带来一种奇妙的抽离感。作者的笔触极其细腻，她总能捕捉到那些日常生活中最微小、最容易被忽略的情感涟漪，然后将它们放大，置于聚光灯下，让我们不得不正视那些潜藏在光鲜外表下的不安与挣扎。读完后，我感到一种混合着失落和某种顿悟的复杂情绪，就好像在午夜时分突然惊醒，世界在你眼前呈现出一种既熟悉又陌生的光影。那些人物，不论是身处异乡的异乡客，还是在故土上徘徊的灵魂，他们的困境都以一种近乎残酷的真实感呈现出来，让人心头一紧。尤其是一些场景的描绘，那种氛围的营造能力简直是大师级的，你几乎能闻到空气中湿润的泥土味，或是感受到拥挤街道上那种无形的压迫感。这些故事并非提供简单的慰藉或明确的答案，恰恰相反，它们更像是一面镜子，映照出我们在现代社会中无处安放的疏离感和身份认同的焦虑。我欣赏这种不加粉饰的、直指人心的叙事力量，它迫使我们思考，究竟“家”的含义是什么？我们又在追逐什么？
坦白说，初读此书时，我有些跟不上作者的节奏，她的叙事线索常常像河流一样，时而湍急，时而静默，充满了意想不到的转折和跳跃。这绝不是那种可以让你放松心情、边喝咖啡边读的小说集，它更像是一次需要全神贯注的智力挑战和情感投入。我发现自己不得不时常停下来，回味上一段文字的深意，因为作者惯用一种非常简洁但极具冲击力的语言来构建场景，每一个词语的选择似乎都经过了千锤百炼，容不得半点马虎。这些故事的魅力在于它们的“留白”，那些没有被明确点出的动机和后果，反而给了读者巨大的想象空间去填补，去感受人物内心的暗流涌动。这种开放性让人着迷，但也意味着读者需要付出更多的努力去解读作者试图传达的那些关于文化冲突、性别角色乃至个体自由的深刻议题。这是一本需要被“品尝”而不是“吞咽”的作品，每品尝一次，都会有新的滋味浮现，显示出其内在结构的复杂和丰富。
作者的着笔非常干净，看似简单的故事，每个都余音缭绕。作为移民，我深有感触。故事虽然短小，但是表达的意义却深远。这是读的作者的第二本书，准备读完所有她的作品。朗读者也非常棒，增色不少。
4 plus 0.5 stars, delicately beautiful
没啥意思。绕颈之物和最后一篇很好看，其余看不下去/ 我错了 其实挺好的/值得五星
Guilt. Cultural identity. Responsibility. Secret. Faith. Growth.
前几篇索然无味 直到读到The Thing Around Your Neck 后面有几个故事给人眼前一亮的感觉 去掉一个最高分 去掉一个最低分 3.5的水平
