Toni Morrison Home-家

作者：Toni Morrison

书名：Home《家》

中文简介：《家》讲述了美国黑人朝鲜战争大兵弗兰克于家乡得到救赎的故事。小说前半部分以弗兰克的角度解释了儿时经历过多虐待与不公的弗兰克而开始憎恶家乡，为了摆脱家乡寻找意义的他毅然参军加入朝鲜战争。在战场又接连目睹战友死亡的他开始滥杀无辜几近麻木。弗兰克在战争结束回到几乎像是陌生之地的美国，并遇见了裁缝姑娘莉莉，本可以有完美爱情的弗兰克却被过去折磨而自我嫌恶难以与他人相爱。绝望的弗兰克突然接到了妹妹的来信并决心回家乡陪伴妹妹，家乡的一切痛苦回忆顿时向弗兰克涌来。面对过去，面对家乡，弗兰克会如何抉择？

英文简介：America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war. 

Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he's hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again. 

A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood - and his home.