FLIGHT OF THE SPARROW: A NOVEL OF EARLY AMERICA
Book ID/图书代码： 03890015B79159
English Summary/英文概要： A historical novel based on the life of Mary Rowlandson
“An authentic drama of Indian captivity…A compelling, emotionally gripping tale.”—Eliot Pattison, author of the Mystery of Colonial America series
She suspects that she has changed too much to ever fit easily into English society again. The wilderness has now become her home. She can interpret the cries of birds. She has seen vistas that have stolen away her breath. She has learned to live in a new, free way....
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676. Even before Mary Rowlandson was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, she sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader, made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger, and exhaustion, Mary witnesses harrowing brutality but also unexpected kindness. To her confused surprise, she is drawn to her captors’ open and straightforward way of life, a feeling further complicated by her attraction to a generous, protective English-speaking native known as James Printer. All her life, Mary has been taught to fear God, submit to her husband, and abhor Indians. Now, having lived on the other side of the forest, she begins to question the edicts that have guided her, torn between the life she knew and the wisdom the natives have shown her.
Based on the compelling true narrative of Mary Rowlandson, Flight of the Sparrow is an evocative tale that transports the reader to a little-known time in early America and explores the real meanings of freedom, faith, and acceptance.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书是基于Mary Rowlandson的真实经历所创作的历史小说。
她觉得自己已经改变了太多，无法再次轻松融入英国社会。野外已经变成了她的家。她听得懂鸟儿的叫声。她已经学会了一种全新的、自由的生活方式……
故事发生在1676年的马萨诸塞湾殖民地。Mary Rowlandson在一个冬日被印第安人抓获卖给了一位部落女首领。她在英国殖民者和印第安人之间挣扎，和寒冷、饥饿、虚脱作斗争，目睹了各种残酷现实，却也遇见了意料之外的善意。渐渐地，她被印第安人开放直接的生活方式所吸引，开始质疑一直以来所接受的所谓正统教育，在过去的生活经验和印第安人所展示出来的智慧之间摇摆不定。
这部煽情传奇小说将读者带到了鲜为人知的早期美国，与大家共同探索自由、新年、接受的真正意义。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“Brown的作品将一段遥远的历史真实地呈现在读者面前，讲述了主人公Mary在绝境中求生存的故事。这是一部关于信念和自由的真实意义的故事。”——Kelly O’Connor McNees，著名作家
“有关印第安人囚禁俘虏的真实故事……扣人心弦、引人入胜。”——Eliot Pattison，著名作家
“Brown’s voice transforms a remote period into a fresh and immediate world and, in Mary, gives us a heroine who is broken by sorrow but determined to survive. This is a novel about the true meaning of faith and freedom."—Kelly O’Connor McNees, author of The Island of Doves and The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
About the Author/作者介绍： Amy Belding Brown是《Mr. Emerson’s Wife》的作者，其作品曾刊载于多本国内外知名杂志上，包括《Yankee》《Good Housekeeping》《American Way》《The Worcester Review》等。Amy Belding Brown is the author of Mr. Emerson’s Wife, and her work has appeared in Yankee, Good Housekeeping, American Way, The Worcester Review and other national, international, and regional magazines. Married to a United Church of Christ minister and the mother of four grown children, she lives in Vermont and currently teaches at Granite State College.
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