1、,The House on Mango Street 芒果街上的小屋,封 面,作者介绍,Sandra Cisneros (桑德拉希斯内罗丝),Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street (1984) and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). 美国
2、当代著名诗人,1954年生于芝加哥。父母都是墨西哥裔移民。30岁时凭借芒果街上的小屋成名,另著有短篇故事集喊女溪及其他和诗集若干。,推荐理由,Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneross greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.,Acclaimed by critics, beloved by childre
3、n, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics.,作者的话,我写的不单是美国的事情,也是你们的。我肯定,在中国,也有这样一条芒果街,陌生人去到那里时,会感到一种“恐外”氛围。尤其,在我们今天生活的世界中,如此多的群体在相互交融:城市居民与
4、乡村居民、中产者与贫民、男人与女人。我们每天都在跨越疆域,甚至不用离开自己的家就这样做了。,故事梗概,Sometimes heartbreaking , sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesnt want to belong-not to her rundown neighborhood, and no
5、t to the low expectations the world has for her.,Esperanzas story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.,我的感受,The house on mango street is a very beautiful pure poetry “, a novel, “a coming-of-age, in writing about the pursuit of reality and sp
6、iritual home. It is composed by several dozens of short story, a short one, one thing, a dream, a cloud, a few trees, several feeling, is described with approximate child tone, sometimes the author will tactfully to express the life. Here you can know that a childs imagination, a childs attitude tow
7、ard life, a childs heart of compassion, her carefully, and feeling of life without stint, society and life. Life is so confusing, it can let a group of people find language, and let another group of people lost. But it is really wonderful, it tries to make a person in the edge, but he is behind. But it is not bad.,不管喜欢与否,你都是芒果街的,有一天你也要回来的。,The End,Thank you,