THE CASTLE CROSS THE MAGNET CARTER: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 12070015B78040

English Summary/英文概要： The hotly anticipated first novel by lauded playwright and The Wire TV writer Kia Corthron, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter sweeps American history from 1941 to the twenty-first century through the lives of four men--two white brothers from rural Alabama, and two black brothers from small-town Maryland--whose journey culminates in an explosive and devastating encounter between the two families.

On the eve of America’s entry into World War II, in a tiny Alabama town, two brothers come of age in the shadow of the local chapter of the Klan, where Randall--a brilliant eighth-grader and the son of a sawmill worker--begins teaching sign language to his eighteen-year-old deaf and uneducated brother B.J. Simultaneously, in small-town Maryland, the sons of a Pullman Porter--gifted six-year-old Eliot and his artistic twelve-year-old brother Dwight--grow up navigating a world expanded both by a visit from civil and labor rights activist A. Philip Randolph and by the legacy of a lynched great-aunt.

The four mature into men, directly confronting the fierce resistance to the early civil rights movement, and are all ultimately uprooted. Corthron’s ear for dialogue, honed from years of theater work, brings to life all the major concerns and movements of America’s past century through the organic growth of her marginalized characters, and embraces a quiet beauty in their everyday existences.

Sharing a cultural and literary heritage with the work of Toni Morrison, Alex Haley, and Edward P. Jones, Kia Corthron’s The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter is a monumental epic deftly bridging the political and the poetic, and wrought by one of America’s most recently recognized treasures.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书是广受赞誉的剧作家及美剧《火线》的编剧Kia Corthron的第一部小说，还没出版便受到了热烈的追捧。2016年1月计划出版，现在美国亚马逊网站上已经开设了该书的预售页面。小说的时间跨度从1941年一直延续到21世纪，讲述了四个男人的故事——两个来自阿拉巴马乡村的白人兄弟和两个来自马里兰小镇的黑人兄弟。四人的人生旅途在两个家族一次毁灭性的交锋之中达到了高潮。作者对小说中对话的生动描绘体现了其多年的剧场工作经验。小说通过四位主人公的成长历程，生动展现了美国在过去的那个世纪中的主要关注点和各项运动。小说同时也在描绘主人公日常生活时体现了一种安静的美的力量。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：
Awarded The Center for Fiction’s 2016 First Novel Prize http://centerforfiction.org/awards/the-first-novel-prize/2016-winner-kia-corthron/"

When I first read it, I was stunned. It’s a haunting and devastating tale, leavened with humor and hope,’ says the award-winning, dedicatedly political playwright Naomi Wallace ... ’I believe [The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter] is the most important piece of writing about twentieth-century America since James Baldwin’s Another Country.’

"Kia Corthron’s first novel is a stunning achievement by any measure -- a riveting saga of two twentieth-century American families trapped inside the quotidian contradictions and compulsions of race, disability, and sexuality. The untidiness of history is conveyed through experiences, dreams, and inevitable eruptions of violence, yet also unexpected patterns of escape and possible orbits of justice." --Angela Y. Davis, UC Santa Cruz

The VIllage Voice piece out this week recommends Kia’s Strand event, and also says, "[G]iven the climate of racial injustice prevailing in the media today, the timing might just be perfect for a big American novel about race that depicts periods ranging from World War II to the civil rights movement to 21st-century America."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/books/review/the-castle-cross-the-magnet-carter-by-kia-corthron.html?_r=0

http://sevenstories.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=af1fe3b500c1b547a9cd914df&id=c3bf48a625&e=916bafb91e

http://centerforfiction.org/awards/the-first-novel-prize/

"Kia Corthron’s “The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter.” This big, ambitious, challenging novel should have gotten much more attention. It tells the 20th-century history of the United States through the intersecting lives of two white brothers and two black brothers. It is, by turns, tender, brutal and redemptive" --Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sympathizers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/books/review/viet-thanh-nguyen-by-the-book.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-2&module=inside-nyt-region®ion=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region&_r=1

New York Times review:

Kia Chorthron of the CASTLE CROSS THE MAGNET CARTER, winner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, on making the jump from stage to page
http://lithub.com/making-the-jump-from-stage-to-page/

•Named Best-Written Debut Novel of the Century by Auraist. Link: https://auraist.substack.com/p/us-debut-fiction-the-best-written

About the Author/作者介绍： KIA CORTHRON成名于上世纪90年代初期，至今已经创作了15余部戏剧。她的作品描绘了美国历史及其对人们最亲密的关系的影响。她的作品获得了诸多国际方面的剧作类奖项。她同时也创作电视剧本，凭借《火线》获得了编剧工会奖杰出剧情类奖项及埃德加奖。

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