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Teen Classics
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Price: US $ 5.50
A phenomenal (杰出的) No 1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces poet Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s which is filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy and finally hard-won independence.
At the age of five, Maya and her brother Bailey are taken to St Louis to visit their mother, but after Maya is raped they are returned to the loving care of their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Maya stops speaking for five years but becomes a keen observer of everything around her, including the racial politics and divisions of her town.
Angelou learned a great deal from her grandmother and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life.
Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women,
Angelou paints a sometimes disquieting (令人不安的), but always affecting picture of the people -- and the times -- that touched her life.
Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation", this remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures the attention of millions of readers.
More than a tour de force of language or the story of childhood suffering: it quietly and gracefully portrays and pays tribute to the courage, dignity and endurance of the small, rural community in which she spent most of her early years in the 1930's.
-- Newsweek
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