Miracle at St. Anna (Movie Tie-in)

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		Miracle at St. Anna (Movie Tie-in)
		Miracle at St. Anna (Movie Tie-in)

基本信息·出版社：Riverhead Trade
·页码：320 页
·出版日期：2008年09月
·ISBN：1594483604
·条形码：9781594483608
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：圣安娜奇迹 (电影小说)

内容简介

Inspired by a historical incident that took place in the village of St. Anna di Stazzema in Tuscany and by the experiences of the famed Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd Division in Italy during World War 11, Miracle at St. Anna is a singular evocation of war, cruelty, passion, heroism, and love. It is the story of four American soldiers, the villagers among whom they take refuge, a band of partisans, and an Italian boy, all of whom encounter a miracle -- though perhaps the true miracle lies in themselves.

Traversing class, race, and geography, Miracle at St. Anna is above,, all a hymn to the brotherhood of man and the power to do good that lives in each of us. It reveals a little-known but fascinating moment in history through the eyes and imagination of a gifted writer. Like The Color of Water, James McBride's stunning' first novel will change the way we perceive ourselves and our world.

--This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
作者简介

James McBride is an award-winning writer and musician. His memoir and tribute to his mother, The Color of Water, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than two years, was published worldwide and won the prestigious Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. As a composer McBride has written songs for Anita Baker, Grover Washington Jr., and Gary Burton; he received the American Music Theater Festival's Stephen Sondheim Award for his jazz/pop musical Bobos. He lives in Pennsylvania.

--This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
编辑推荐 Amazon.com Review
In Miracle at St. Anna, James McBride, author of the bestselling memoir The Color of Water, tells a war story that, like all great tales of conflict, connects the enormous tragedy of war with the intimate stories of individual soldiers. Miracle at St. Anna vividly follows four of the U.S. Army's 92nd Division of all-black buffalo soldiers as they become trapped between forces beyond their control and between worlds. Three of the soldiers have bolted behind enemy lines to rescue their comrade, the colossal, but simple, Private Sam Train. They find themselves stranded between worlds in a remote central Italian village, with the German Army hidden on one side and their racist and largely mismanaged American commanding officers on the other. The strange world of the village floats between myth and reality, where belief in magic coexists with the most horrific acts of war. In the melee that opens the book, the giant Sam Train suddenly comes to believe he can turn invisible, the local miser believes he is cursed with a wealth of rabbits, and each of the other soldiers also exists in a mythical world of his own. But they are all about to be shattered by the Miracle.

McBride illuminates an ironic moment in American history, a time when black soldiers fought bravely for the country whose "freedoms" included Jim Crow laws, segregation, and institutional and widespread personal racism. Miracle at St. Anna puts these intimate stories at the center of the much larger story of the struggle of people of color in this country. Each character is trapped and forced to act as nobly and as bravely as he can in the midst of forces beyond not only his control, but beyond his world. --Paul Ford --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Publishers Weekly
Following the huge critical and commercial success of his nonfiction memoir, The Color of Water, McBride offers a powerful and emotional novel of black American soldiers fighting the German army in the mountains of Italy around the village of St. Anna of Stazzema in December 1944. This is a refreshingly ambitious story of men facing the enemy in front and racial prejudice behind; it is also a carefully crafted tale of a mute Italian orphan boy who teaches the American soldiers, Italian villagers and partisans that miracles are the result of faith and trust. Toward the end of 1944, four black U.S. Army soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines in the village as winter and the German army close in. Pvt. Sam Train, a huge, dim-witted, gentle soldier, cares for the traumatized orphan boy and carries a prized statue's head in a sack on his belt. Train and his three comrades are scared and uncertain what to do next, but an Italian partisan named Peppi involves the Americans in a ruthless ploy to uncover a traitor among the villagers. Someone has betrayed the villagers and local partisans to the Germans, resulting in an unspeakable reprisal. Revenge drives Peppi, but survival drives the Americans. The boy, meanwhile, knows the truth of the atrocity and the identity of the traitor, but he clings to Train for comfort and protection. Through his sharply drawn characters, McBride exposes racism, guilt, courage, revenge and forgiveness, with the soldiers confronting their own fear and rage in surprisingly personal ways at the decisive moment in their lives. Agent, Flip Brophy. Author tour. (Feb. 4)Forecast: The multi-talented McBride he is an award-winning composer as well as a writer acquits himself admirably as a fiction writer. Fans of The Color of Water and readers with wartime memories will make up a strong base audience for his first novel.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal
Having conquered nonfiction with The Color of Water, which dwelled on the New York Times best sellers list for two years, journalist McBride takes a chance at fiction. He roots his novel in actual events, relating an encounter between the 92nd Division's Buffalo Soldiers and a little boy from a Tuscan village where a terrible massacre has occurred.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist
McBride, the author of the best-selling memoir The Color of Water (1996), turns his hand to fiction in this stirring tribute to the human soul. Sent to Italy to fight under unbelievably harsh and unfamiliar conditions, the members of the Ninety-second all-black, segregated Buffalo Division distinguished themselves both on and off the battlefield during World War II. Cut off from their unit during a botched advance, four GIs become the improbable guardians of a traumatized Italian boy who has lost the power of speech and the ability to remember his past. Refusing to abandon the child, Sam Train, an illiterate giant of a man, insists on carrying the boy to safety. In a remote mountain town, the Americans learn from a handful of suspicious villagers, a rag-tag band of Italian partisans, and a remorseful German soldier that the boy was the only survivor of a brutal massacre. Although McBride touches on issues of race, atrocity, and evil, these diverse characters are able to transcend such human failings through love and faith. Margaret Flanagan
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review
'A searingly, soaringly beautiful book' -- Baltimore Sun 'A brutal and moving first novel!McBride's heart is on its sleeve, but these days it looks just right' -- Kirkus Reviews 'A mesmerising read that counterpoints the horror of war with man's capacity for love' -- Publishing News 'Excellent first novel' -- The Sunday Telegraph 'McBride is realistic about racial prejudice and explicit about the dreadfulness of all fighting, but still hints at the possiblity of justice. He offers hope. This war story, full of action, suffering, disgust and melodrama is also a sermon, preaching that the human spirit can defeat adversity and that love transcends evil' -- The Sunday Telegraph 'War, cruelty, passion, heroism and race crammed into one lyrical tale' -- The List Glasgow 'A powerful and emotional novel' -- Publishers Weekly

Italy, 1944. Credulous giant Sam Train, a rural Southern negro in the embattled 92nd Division of the US Army - strung out along the Cinquale Canal and ranged against Kesselring's 148th Brigade Division - is persuaded by smooth faux-preacher Bishop to rescue a young Italian child caught in the middle of a firestorm. Miraculously unharmed and convinced that God has made him invisible, Train disappears with the boy into the slopes of the Apuane Alps, reluctantly pursued by three members of his unit, and into an actual occurrence in the war: the massacre by German SS of the inhabitants of Sant'Anna Di Stazzema. This novel vibrates with tenderness and sorrow. Its prose is simple and often beautiful, told in an American vernacular which at its height attains the feel and quality of Ralph Ellison, and at its lowest ebb - infrequently, and all the more startling for its exception - a contrived Hollywood ring. It is a book which defies pigeonholing, ranging from unnecessary sentimentality to the absolutely startling - '... the man who was chocolate, the chocolate giant who wept tears of soda pop and made it his birthday just by turning his head'. This is writing which falls in places, but which carries itself, heedless of its own imperfections, with the energy and beauty of a song. Love, faith, brotherhood and equality ripple in the words: McBride, with fervour reminiscent of James Baldwin, constructs a narrative of humanity, struggling to create meaning from the vast forces of history. (Kirkus UK) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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