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English Summary/英文概要： Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain, to black womanhood, to the ever-changing heart of London
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.
Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 小说讲述了12位人物的生活和挣扎。大多数是生活在英国的黑人女性，不同世代，不同信仰、阶级、政治倾向的黑人女性，她们讲述关于自己家庭、朋友、恋人的故事。
《卫报》有评论认为，小说讲述的是抗争，同时也关乎爱、喜悦和想象力。它探寻的是关于女性主义和种族的永恒性的问题。
作者伯纳蒂恩·艾瓦瑞斯托生于1959年，创作过8部小说，常年活跃在英国文艺界。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况： ☆Bernie was also shortlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Prize, along with Oyin Braithwaite
☆Bernie also won Book of the Year and Author of the Year, and Oyin won Crime & Thriller Book of the Year, at the British Book Awards
☆Bernardine Evaristo is chairing the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and we can’t wait to see her picks!
☆We were delighted that Bernardine Evaristo and Charles Moore both made the Orwell Prize shortlists for Fiction and Non-Fiction respectively
Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2019
Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019
☆GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER by Bernardine Evaristo is now an international bestseller in Germany (just over 70k copies sold), Italy (25k copies sold), Croatia and Poland
Chosen as a Best Book of Summer 2019 by the Guardian and the Independent
Weaves through time and space with crackling originality (Vogue)
Exuberant, bursting at the seams in delightful ways... Evaristo continues to expand and enhance our literary canon. If you want to understand modern day Britain, this is the writer to read (New Statesman)
An exceptional book that unites poetry, social history, women’s voices and beyond. Order it right now (Stylist)
Evaristo’s prose hums with life as characters seem to step off the page fully formed. At turns funny and sad, tender and true, this book deserves to win awards (Red)
GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER just came out in the US and received its first rave review in the Washington Post, and it’s glorious.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/bernardine-evaristos-girl-woman-other-received-half-a-booker-prize-but-it-deserves-all-the-glory/2019/10/28/b22212fa-f97a-11e9-8906-ab6b60de9124_story.html
A nice article in the Bookseller today: https://www.thebookseller.com/news/bernardine-evaristo-s-girl-woman-other-sells-21-deals-tv-auction-underway-1114856
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