A WEDDING IN HAITI: THE STORY OF A FRIENDSHIP
Book ID/图书代码： 12560512B51790
English Summary/英文概要： “Haiti is not erased. . . Haiti is what cannot be erased in a human being, not with slavery, not with centuries of exploitation and bad management, invasions, earthquakes, hurricanes, cholera. It embodies those undervalued but increasingly valuable skills we need to survive on this slowly depleting planet: endurance, how to live with less, how to save by sharing, how to make a pact with hope when you find yourself in hell.”— Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez has been called “a one-woman cultural collision” by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and that has never been truer than in this story about three of her most personal relationships—with her parents, with her husband, and with a young Haitian boy known as Piti.
A teenager when Julia and her husband, Bill, first met him in 2001, Piti illegally crossed the border into the Dominican Republic to find work. Julia, impressed by his courage, charmed by his smile, has over the years come to think of him as a son, even promising to be at his wedding someday. When Piti calls in 2009, Julia’s promise is tested.
To Alvarez, much admired for her ability to lead readers deep inside her native Dominican culture, “Haiti is like a sister I’ve never gotten to know.” And so we follow her across the border into what was once the richest of all the French colonies and now teeters on the edge of the abyss—first for the celebration of a wedding and a year later to find Piti’s loved ones in the devastation of the earthquake.
As in all of Alvarez’s books, a strong message is packed inside an intimate, beguiling story, this time about the nature of poverty and of wealth, of human love and of human frailty, of history and of the way we live now.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “海地是永不磨灭的。。。。。。至少从人类历史上看，海地具有难以磨灭的价值，这一价值并非源自于奴役，也非源自于几个世纪的剥削史，政权的动荡，侵略，地震，飓风以及霍乱，相反地，海地象征着一种精神，看似不名一文，却对生存在这个日渐枯竭的地球上的我们有着极为重要的启示价值：如何学会坚忍，如何降低生存成本，如何学会分享以节约资源，以及如何在逆境中让自己保持斗志昂扬。”茱莉亚•阿尔瓦雷斯 茱莉亚•阿尔瓦雷斯被洛杉矶时报书评专栏称为为”一名女性的文化冲击“，这一文化冲击在本书中被体现的淋漓尽致，主要体现在与她相关的三对私人关系上：她与父母，与丈夫，以及一名叫帕蒂的海地青年。
当茱莉亚和丈夫比尔在2001年初遇帕蒂时，帕蒂还是一名青少年，他越过边境，偷渡到了多米尼亚共和国，想要找一份工作，夫妻俩为他的勇气所打动，为他的笑容所感染，多年后一直将帕蒂当作他们的亲生儿子一般对待，甚至预备出席帕蒂未来的婚礼。然而茱莉亚的愿望受到了考验，这一切源于2009年帕蒂打给茱莉亚的一通电话。
艾尔瓦雷斯极为擅长引领读者们同她一同走进多米尼亚本土文化之中，也应此而备受赞誉，”海地对于我而言，就好像一位失散多年的姐妹“艾尔瓦雷斯如是评论道。我们随同她穿越边境线，进入到了昔日法国最为富裕的殖民地，然而如今，昔日的美好摇摇欲坠在灾难的边缘---一年前甜蜜的婚礼，一年后，帕蒂深爱的新娘却已躺在地震的废墟之中。
艾尔瓦雷斯的书总是在细腻动人的故事中向我们传递着一些强烈的信息，关于贫困的本质，关于财富，关于人与人之间爱的羁绊，关于人类的脆弱，关于历史，以及我们如何活着。(DC)
Awards/获奖情况：“She is the ideal travel companion—witty and observant and, as in all of Julia Alvarez’s writing, compassionate and full of heart. A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.”---Mark Kurlansky
About the Author/作者介绍： 茱莉亚•艾尔瓦雷斯，著有五部小说：《加西亚的姑娘们如何慢慢遗落了她们的口音》，《在蝴蝶的时间里》等，同时她还著有一些散文集，五册诗歌集，以及五册儿童书籍。现居佛蒙特，并担任明德学院特聘作家。
Julia Alvarez is the author of five books of fiction, including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, as well as a book of essays; five collections of poetry; and five books for children. She lives in Vermont, where she is a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College.
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