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2012年 02月 14日
The Help
The Help_a0051297_1426883.jpg昨日の BS 101 ワールド WAVE で,この小説がきっかけとなって実現した何十年か振りでの再会の話題などを紹介していた.

"The Help" is a 2009 novel by American author Kathryn Stockett. The story is about African American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s. (...)
The novel is Stockett's first. It took her five years to complete and was rejected by 60 literary agents before agent Susan Ramer agreed to represent Stockett. "The Help" has since been published in 35 countries and three languages. As of August 2011, it has sold five million copies and has spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. (Wikipedia)

Kindle Touch にサンプルを取ってみた.

- Taking care a white babies, that's what I do, along with all the cooking and the cleaning. I done raised seventeen kids in my lifetime.

- Babies like fat. Like to bury they face up in you armpit and go to sleep. They like big fat legs too. That I know.

こういう一人称の語りで,50年前の南部ミシシッピーの黒人ヘルパー達の口調に触れることが出来るとは興味深い.

映画「ヘルプ~心がつなぐストーリー~」の日本公開は3月.インドネシアでも公開されると思うのだが,なにせ pembantu の話.インドネシアからの反応には大いに興味ありだ,[Sg]



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by sanggarnote | 2012-02-14 14:26 | 文法


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