精彩書評： A gripping and politically savvy look at the human impact of current immigration policy and an honest examination of the perils facing desperate immigrants as they travel north.
Border Child is an important and timely must-read! Michel Stone writes with confident authority about the heart wrenching experiences of a young Mexican couple desperately seeking their child, lost at the border. As the reader journeys with them, a deeper, meaningful appreciation of their culture, decisions, and humanity takes root in our heart. Border Child is a cross-cultural tour de force. -- Mary Alice Monroe
In Stone's first novel,The Iguana Tree,H ctor makes the risky border crossing from Mexico into the US and finds a good job in South Carolina. When his wife Lilia follows him, she is separated from their infant daughter Alejandra.
Border Child begins several years later, back in their home village in Oaxaca, wher both of them mourn their Alejandra, fearing she is dead. Then comes a message that they might be able to find her. As Lilia prepares for the birth of their third child, haunted by the consequences of her actions, H ctor sets off on a search that leads to a possibility neither had considered. Stone makes palpable the vulnerabilities and exploitation of Lilia and H ctor, hard-working parents seeking a better future for their family. (Credit: Doubleday)
精彩書評： Haskell thinks like a biologist， writes like a poet， and gives the natural world the kind of open-minded attention one expects from a Zen monk rather than a hypothesis-driven scientist.
A critical appreciation of 'world literature,' highlighting works that combine specifics of locality with global ch is shrewd on what he terms 'a new genre of English-language it migrant literature,' which is less about an immigrant's arrival than a transitional passage, one that reinforces the notion of globalization in novels whose cultural roots are tougher to untangle. An insightful addition to the Columbia Global Reports roster. -- Kirkus Reviews
簡介： Award-winning critic Adam Kirsch achieves a fresh take on world literature in this collection of essays about eight global writers who encompass six languages and five continents. What unites these eight, Kirsch argues, is the insistence on the global dimension not just of contemporary experience, but of contemporary imagination. The new migrant novel is one of the most significant literary expressions of the 21st Century. In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah and Mosin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the US is a stage of life rather than a final destination . Examining these plus Orhan Pamuk's Snow, Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Haruki Murakami's IQ84, Roberto Bolano's 2666, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels and Houllebecq's The Possibility of an Island, Kirsch gives hope for the capacity of fiction to reveal humanity to itself . (Credit: Columbia Global Reports)
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