INDEPENDENCE
Book ID/图书代码： 12760013B62031
English Summary/英文概要： A CELEBRATED BAJAN AUTHOR’S FIRST NOVEL IN TWELVE YEARS
Independence is the touching story of the coming of age of a country and two teenagers in it, at the time of Barbados’ independence from Britain in 1966. Fourteen-year-old Christopher Lucas and Stephanie King have been neighbours and best friends since they were born a few months apart. They have been raised by their impoverished grandmothers after their mothers went “over ’n’ away” to the USA and Canada to find work when the children were toddlers; no one has heard from the mothers since. The grandmothers are growing more and more desperate about their ability to support their charges. When the novel opens, there is a sudden and unexplained rift between Christopher and Stephanie following the return from Canada of a benefactor named Mr. Lashley, who lavishes gifts on Stephanie.
Through a series of triumphs and catastrophes, Christopher and Stephanie determine their places in the world and take control of their lives. Rich with the details of Bajan culture, from food preparation to political and financial affairs, from sexuality to spirituality, Independence is a fascinating window onto a little-known world, and a moving portrait of a journey to adulthood and the women who guide it.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 12年来一个著名的巴巴多斯作家的第一本小说。《独立》是两个少年在一个国家未来岁月里的感人故事，当时巴巴多斯于1966年从英国独立。十四岁的克里斯托弗•卢卡斯和斯蒂芬妮•王从出生后的几个月开始就一直是邻居和最好的朋友。当他们是幼儿时，他们的妈妈就去美国和加拿大找工作去了，他们由祖母带大，从那时起就没听到过他们母亲的消息。祖母的年纪越来越大，也对没有能力抚养他们感到越来越绝望。当打开小说，一个名为拉什利的慷慨的先生从加拿大返回后，在克里斯托弗和斯蒂芬妮之间突然产生了一个不明原因的裂痕，拉什利先生送了斯蒂芬妮礼物。
经过一系列的胜利和灾难，克里斯托弗和斯蒂芬妮在这个世界安定了下来，并控制自己的生活。《独立》充满了巴巴多斯的文化细节，从食物准备到政治到经济，从性到精神，它是一个鲜为人知的世界的窗口，一个对成长过程的生动描述。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 塞西尔•福斯特是一个加拿大小说家，散文家，记者和学者。他于1954年出生在巴巴多斯，并于1978年移居加拿大。他是多种报纸的记者，并是Contrast的编辑，它是加拿大历史上第一份面向黑人的报纸，他也是“金融邮报”的资深编辑。塞西尔•福斯特的非小说类书籍，包括《扭曲的镜子》：加拿大的种族主义情况（1991）；《有个地方叫天堂》：黑人在加拿大的意义（1996）；《岛之翼》：回忆录（1998）；《什么地方种族不重要》（2005）；《黑暗和现代性》：人性的色彩和追求自由（2007）。他的四本小说包括收到高度赞扬的《房子里没有人》（1991）；《亲爱的，睡吧》（1995），它们都由美国的兰亭图书公司和加拿大的兰登书屋出版。还有《Slammin’ Tar》（1998）；干骨的回忆（2001年）。塞西尔在2002年完成了他的博士学位，在约克大学研究加拿大黑人的概念。从那时起他就一直是一个学者。目前，他是在安大略省圭尔夫大学的社会学教授，并且是布法罗大学研究非洲和非裔美国人的兼职教授。《独立》是他10年来的第一部小说。Cecil Foster is a Canadian novelist, essayist, journalist, and scholar. He was born in Barbados in 1954 and emigrated to Canada in 1978. He has been a reporter for various newspapers and was editor of Contrast, Canada’s first Black-oriented newspaper, and senior editor for The Financial Post. He has also worked for the CBC in radio and television. Cecil Foster’s non-fiction books include Distorted Mirror: Canada’s Racist Face (1991); A Place Called Heaven: The Meaning of Being Black in Canada (1996); Island Wings: A Memoir (1998); Where Race Does Not Matter (2005), and Blackness and Modernity: The Colour of Humanity and the Quest for Freedom (2007). His four novels include the highly praised debut No Man in the House (1991) and Sleep On, Beloved (1995), both published by Ballantine in the USA and Random House in Canada; Slammin’ Tar (1998), and Dry Bone Memories (2001). In 2002 Cecil completed his doctorate, an exploration of the concept of Blackness in Canada, at York University. Since then he has been an academic. He is currently Professor of sociology at the University of Guelph in Ontario, and Adjunct Professor of African and African-American Studies at the University of Buffalo. Independence is his first novel in 10 years.
Format:电子手稿
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：RIGHTS SOLD: Canada: HarperCollins, Jan 2014
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