SHOW ME A MOUNTAIN
Book ID/图书代码： 02000016B88698
English Summary/英文概要： Keynote
From the Costa and Commonwealth-shortlisted author of Pao, and set against the backdrop of Jamaican independence, a story of revolution and oppression, privilege and poverty, love and betrayal. Description
Fay Wong is a woman caught between worlds. Her father is a Chinese immigrant who conjured a fortune out of nothing; her mother grew up on a plantation and now reigns over their mansion in Lady Musgrave Road, sipping Earl Grey tea in the sultry Kingston afternoons.
But the Chinatown bars where her father conducts his business are out of bounds to Fay, and the airy rooms of Lady Musgrave Road are filled with her mother’s dark secrets and inexplicable rages - rages against which Fay rebels as she grows from a girl into a beautiful, headstrong woman.
For hers is a country where even the smallest difference in skin colour can mark the boundary between the promise of a future and the burden of the past, and where the struggle for power is not only played out in government buildings and military camps, but also in the alleyways of Back’o’Wall, the streets of Chinatown, and the manicured lawns of the schools for Kingston’s elite.
As she tries to escape the restraints of her privileged upbringing, striving for independence in a homeland that is trying to do the same, Fay’s eyes are opened to a Jamaica she was never meant to see. She encounters gangsters and revolutionaries, priests and prostitutes and witnesses great sacrifices and deep betrayals. But when her parents decide that she must marry the racketeer Yang Pao, she finds herself on a journey that may lead to sacrifices and betrayals of her own.
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Kerry Young’s debut novel, Pao was shortlisted for the Costa First novel award and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. The Observer called it ‘Blindingly good’.
For anyone who loved The Pirate’s Daughter and the novels of Amy Tan and Andrea Levy.
Gloria was Shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award (2013), Longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (2014) and Nominated for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Kerry Young draws on her own mixed-heritage family history in the final novel in a trilogy that spans the history of twentieth century Jamaica, yet which also stands alone as a powerful coming of age story.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 黄费伊是一位边缘性女人，父亲是一位中国移民暴发户；体内流淌着非洲种植园走出的母亲的血液，如今管理着牙买加玛斯格列夫人岛路。
但父亲随意出入唐人街的自由，却严令禁止费伊的进入，玛斯格列夫人岛路上的敞开的房间里，却充斥着母亲长久以来隐藏的秘密，以及难以驾驭的费伊，从一个女孩长成一位美丽，而又任性女人体内滋生的叛逆。
在这个国度，即使是一个小小细微的肤色差别，都预示着对未来的承诺和过去的负担的界限，不仅是政府大楼内的权利角逐，还有，金士顿贵族精英阶层学校的修整过的草坪。
当她试图想要逃避这种享受良好教育的机会，如同这个国家正在极力摆脱奴役，争取独立一样之时，费伊亲眼目睹了牙买加从有过的将来。而当她的母亲决意让女儿必须和一个名叫杨宝的骗子成婚时，费伊发现自己已经踏上了一场将会导致牺牲和严重背叛的不归之路。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况："Impressive ... With grace, authenticity and humour, Young lets Jamaica’s political history shine through the life story of her charming yet fallible hero. Brilliant" - Daily Mail on Pao "Kerry Young is a stand-alone talent in the new emerging generation of writers from the Caribbean region. Her stories are gritty and also funny and very real." - Monique Roffey
About the Author/作者介绍： Kerry Young was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to a Chinese father and a mother of mixed Chinese-African heritage. She came to England in 1965 and lives in Leicestershire, where she is a reader for The Literary Consultancy, a tutor for the Arvon Foundation and a Fellow on the Royal Literary Fund Fellowship Programme where she is writer-inresidence at The University of Sheffield. She is also Honorary Assistant Professor in the School of English at The University of Nottingham and Honorary Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Leicester.
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