Boy, Snow, Bird

眾人引頸期盼的文學創作
揉和創意與文采，全新改寫知名童話《白雪公主》的上乘之作！

　　成功將英國民間故事《藍鬍子》改寫為異想小說《Mr. Fox》的英國才女作家海倫‧奧耶耶美，此次目標對準家喻戶曉的童話故事《白雪公主》，藉由背景與人物的重新調度，構思出一個關於家庭秘密、身份認同與外貌的動人小說。

　　1953年冬天，為了躲避父親暴力而離家出走的Boy Novak，從紐約來到麻薩諸塞州的近郊，決定與村裡的一個鰥夫Arturo結婚，順理成章地成為對方女兒Snow Whitman的繼母。一家三口相處愉快，Boy從未想要成為惡毒的後母，也未察覺命運對她有苛刻的安排。

　　後來，Boy產下一個女兒Bird，原本應該歡欣鼓舞迎接新生命的一家人，卻因為Bird膚色是黑的而展開一場家庭戰爭……。(文/ 博客來編譯)
　　
　　In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty — the opposite of the life she’s left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman.

　　A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she’d become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy’s daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Among them, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold.

　　Dazzlingly inventive and powerfully moving, Boy, Snow, Bird is an astonishing and enchanting novel. With breathtaking feats of imagination, Helen Oyeyemi confirms her place as one of the most original and dynamic literary voices of our time.
 

作者簡介

　　Helen Oyeyemi is the author of five novels, most recently White Is for Witching, which won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award, and Mr. Fox, which won a 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. In 2013, she was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. She lives in Prague.