The Help 相助 英文原版簡介，目錄書摘
☆2009年南非Exclusive Books Boeke Prize桂冠之作，與《追風箏的人》、《朗讀者》、《貧民窟的百萬富翁》、《時間旅行者的妻子》等共載英文小說史冊
☆2010年女性文學柑橘獎入圍作品，奧普拉俱樂部強力推薦，夢工廠《哈利·波特》原班人馬電影改編緊急進行中
☆《紐約時報》《時代周刊》《今日美國報》《華盛頓郵報》《美國娛樂周刊》《出版商務周報》六大媒體聯(lián)名推薦
☆2009美國出版界奇跡，版權售出30余國，出版10個月，銷量已過100萬冊
☆這是一個跨越種族、國界的樸素故事，卻能在你柔軟的內心掀起洶涌波濤
☆惟有愛與相助的光芒，得以救贖世界人的心。
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
愛與痛苦，仇恨與信仰，恐懼與勇氣，交集在三十萬字的分量里，密密麻麻浸潤心靈?！断嘀芬粫凶髡咭约毮佌鎸嵉墓P觸重現(xiàn)了60年代美國南部的種族關系，刻畫了艾碧蓮、明尼、雯三個人物形象，大時代的激流教小人物只能學會隱忍，但當變革的聲音從喉嚨里發(fā)出，飽滿而又真摯的感情噴薄而出，誰又能說，這股直抵人心的力量不能給他們的命運帶來救贖？本書出版之后，版權被三十多國爭先引進，《紐約時報》、《出版者周刊》、《華盛頓郵報》聯(lián)合推薦 并連續(xù)報導，堪稱近年來不可多見的力作。
1962年的密西西比，距離奧巴馬當選總統(tǒng)還有47個年頭。白人男子至高無上，女人是漂亮的擺設，有色人種則是不可接觸卻又不得不接觸的賤民。種族沖突此起彼伏，兩個女傭，一個大學剛畢業(yè)、涉世未深的小姐，冒險開始她們的變革之路。
我們只是不同的兩個人，但我們之間不存在難以逾越的隔閡。遠遠沒有我以為的那么難。
Kathryn Stockett is an American novelist from Jackson, Mississippi. She is known for her 2009 debut novel, The Help, which is about African American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. The novel climbed best seller charts a few months after it was released. Until 2001, Stockett lived in New York City, where she worked in publishing. She currently lives in Atlanta. Reflective of her first novel, Stockett was raised by an African American domestic worker in lieu of an absentee mother.
凱瑟琳·斯多克特，生長于密西西比州首府杰克遜，在阿拉巴馬大學獲得文學與創(chuàng)作學位，畢業(yè)后移居紐約，從事雜志出版與市場工作九年，她目前與丈夫和女兒居住在亞特蘭大。本書是她首部小說。
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