2005 - 已知世界

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2005 – The Known World
Author: Edward P. Jones
Winner of the 2005 Award
2005 Shortlist    2005 Longlist
The Judges’ Citation
The Known Worldbegins with the death, at the age of 31, of Henry Townsend, a black farmer in Manchester County, the largest county in antebellum Virginia. Among the property bequeathed to his widow are 13 women, 11 men and 9 children – for Henry, once a slave, was an owner of slaves himself… Edward P. Jones has created a richly imagined novel, in which a multitude of moral contradictions are revealed and explored.

…Jones loops backwards and forward from the day of Henry’s death, in prose that is generally measured and restrained, but with passages of intense lyricism and outbursts of casual savagery. Vividly conceived and profoundly humane, The Known World is a remarkable re-creation of a world we might have thought we already knew.

Judges: Jonathan Buckley, Agnès Desarthe, Rita Ann Higgins, Milan Richter, Nino Ricci. Non-voting Chair, Judge Eugene R. Sullivan
About the Book
Henry Townsend, a black farmer, boot maker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor — William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia’s Manchester County. Under Robbins’s tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation — as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: slaves take to escaping under the cover of night, and families who had once found love beneath the weight of slavery begin to betray one another. Beyond the Townsend estate, the known world also unravels: low-paid white patrollers stand watch as slave “speculators” sell free black people into slavery, and rumours of slave rebellions set white families against slaves who have served them for years.

Ranging seamlessly between the past and future and back again to the present, The Known World weaves together the lives of freed and enslaved blacks, whites, and Indians — and allows all of us a deeper understanding of the enduring multidimensional world created by the institution of slavery.

About the Author
Edward P. Jones won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award for his debut collection of stories, Lost in the City. The Known World, his first novel, won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Author       
Edward P. Jones

Country       
US

Nominating Library       
Richmond Public Library, USA

Publisher       
Amistad

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2005 - 已知世界
作者。爱德华-P-琼斯
2005年获奖者
2005年入围名单 2005年长名单
评委的评语
已知的世界》以亨利-汤森31岁时的死亡开始，他是曼彻斯特县的一个黑人农民，曼彻斯特县是前弗吉尼亚州最大的县。在遗留给他的遗孀的财产中，有13名妇女、11名男子和9名儿童--因为亨利曾经是一名奴隶，他自己也是一名奴隶主......爱德华-P-琼斯创作了一部想象力丰富的小说，其中揭示和探讨了大量的道德矛盾。

......琼斯从亨利死亡的那一天开始向前回溯，散文总体上是有节制的，但也有激烈的抒情和随意的野蛮爆发的段落。鲜活的构思和深刻的人性，《已知的世界》是对一个我们可能认为已经知道的世界的非凡再现。

评委。乔纳森-巴克利、阿涅斯-德萨尔、丽塔-安-希金斯、米兰-里希特、尼诺-里奇。无投票权的主席，尤金-R-沙利文法官
关于这本书
亨利-汤森是一位黑人农民、制靴工人和前奴隶，他对《失乐园》情有独钟，并有一位不同寻常的导师--威廉-罗宾斯，也许是前时代弗吉尼亚州曼彻斯特县最有权势的人。在罗宾斯的指导下，亨利成为他自己的种植园--以及他自己的奴隶的所有者。当他去世后，他的遗孀卡尔多尼亚陷入深深的悲痛之中，他们的种植园开始分崩离析：奴隶们开始在夜幕的掩护下逃跑，曾经在奴隶制的重压下找到爱情的家庭开始相互背叛。在汤森庄园之外，已知的世界也解体了：低薪的白人巡逻员看着奴隶 "投机者 "将自由的黑人卖给奴隶，奴隶叛乱的谣言让白人家庭与多年来为他们服务的奴隶对抗。

已知的世界》在过去和未来之间无缝衔接，并再次回到现在，将被解放和被奴役的黑人、白人和印第安人的生活编织在一起--让我们所有人都能更深入地了解奴隶制所创造的持久的多维度世界。

关于作者
爱德华-P-琼斯因其首部故事集《迷失在城市》获得笔会/海明威奖并入围国家图书奖。他的第一部小说《已知的世界》赢得了2004年普利策小说奖。

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作者简介       
爱德华-P-琼斯

国家       
美国

提名图书馆       
美国里士满公共图书馆

出版商       
阿米斯塔德

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