from When I Was Puerto Rican
from When I Was Puerto Rican
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摘自《当我还是波多黎各人》
DOI：
10.4324/9780429040146-22
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2019
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Esmeralda Santiago
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Esmeralda Santiago
埃斯梅拉达·圣地亚哥的故事开始于波多黎各的农村，在那里，她的童年充满了温柔和家庭冲突，热带的声音和景象以及贫穷。从小到大，她学会了吃番石榴的正确方式，学会了晚上芒果树林里树蛙的声音，学会了美味的莫尔西拉香肠的味道，学会了将死婴儿的灵魂带到天堂的配方。当她走进学校时，我们看到了波多黎各文化和扬基文化之间既热闹又激烈的冲突。当她的母亲玛米，一个自然的力量，带着她的七个即将11岁的孩子飞往纽约时，最年长的埃斯梅拉达必须学习新的规则，一种新的语言，并最终采取一个新的身份。在这本广受好评的畅销三部曲的第一卷中，圣地亚哥出色地再现了她早年的田园风光和动荡的家庭生活，以及她从郊区到布鲁克林的漫长旅程，从为母亲在福利办公室为她翻译到在哈佛大学获得崇高荣誉。
Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights as well as poverty. Growing up, she learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs in the mango groves at night, the taste of the delectable sausage called morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. As she enters school we see the clash, both hilarious and fierce, of Puerto Rican and Yankee culture. When her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually take on a new identity. In this first volume of her much-praised, bestselling trilogy, Santiago brilliantly recreates the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years and her tremendous journey from the barrio to Brooklyn, from translating for her mother at the welfare office to high honors at Harvard.