文档介绍：The House on Mango Street 芒果街上的小屋
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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 tes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, 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 ing-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 doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her.
Esperanza's story is that of a young ing into her power, and inventing for herself what she will e.
我的感受
The house on mango street is a very