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作者:Abi Daré
书名:The Girl with the Louding Voice《那个声音洪亮的女孩》
中文简介:Abi Daré的处女作The Girl with the Louding Voice,就像是Etaf Rum的A Woman Is No Man和Tara Westover的Educated一般,描述了一个鼓舞人心的故事,书中充满了勇气,出人意料地吸引着读者。本书用一位尼日利亚少女令人难忘的声音讲述,她陷入奴役生活,但决心为自己的梦想而奋斗并选择自己的未来。
英文简介:Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a “louding voice”—the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's father sells her to be the third wife of a local man who is eager for her to bear him a son and heir. When Adunni runs away to the city, hoping to make a better life, she finds that the only other option before her is servitude to a wealthy family. As a yielding daughter, a subservient wife, and a powerless slave, Adunni is told, by words and deeds, that she is nothing. But while misfortunes might muffle her voice for a time, they cannot mute it. And when she realizes that she must stand up not only for herself, but for other girls, for the ones who came before her and were lost, and for the next girls, who will inevitably follow; she finds the resolve to speak, however she can—in a whisper, in song, in broken English—until she is heard.