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Twelve-year-old Ana Rosa is a blossoming writer growing up in the Dominican Republic, a country where words are feared. Yet there is so much inspiration all around her -- watching her brother search for a future, learning to dance and to love, and finding out what it means to be part of a community -- that Ana Rosa must write it all down. As she struggles to find her own voice and a way to make it heard, Ana Rosa realizes the power of her words to transform the world around her -- and to transcend the most unthinkable of tragedies.

作者简介

Lynn Joseph is the author of many picture books for hildren about her island home of Trinida including A Wave in Her Pocket, An Island Christmas, and Jump Up Time: A Trinidad Carnival Story. This novel is her first book about her new island home: the Dominican Republic. Ms. Joseph is also an attorney for the City of New York and is protected by two superheroes, Jared and Brandt.

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What 12-year-old Ana Rosa Hèrnandez wants more than anything is a notepad of her very own. Writing is her passion, and words flow out of her pencil onto the paper bags that Papi brings his rum home in, onto napkins, onto gray shop paper. In the República Dominicana, however, only the President can write books. But as Mami sighs and says, "Ana Rosa, there always has to be a first person to do something." These supportive words are difficult for her mother to muster, as everyone on the island knows too well that writers do not have freedom of expression--and in their political climate "silence was self-defense."

When the chilling news arrives that the government wants to buy all the land in the village to build hotels and generate more tourism, people learn what it means to break their silence. Ana Rosa's handsome 19-year-old brother Guario Hèrnandez is appointed as official spokesperson for the villagers' cause, but when an out-and-out rebellion against the government erupts, he--and everyone else--is endangered. As the bulldozers roll in, Ana Rosa and her family discover how utterly worthless words really are in the face of brute force.

Lynn Joseph paints a vibrant, colorful landscape of this Caribbean island where love, warmth of community, and abundant natural beauty soften the kind of poverty that makes paper--and sometimes doing what you think is right--a luxury. Ana Rosa's engaging, heartfelt poems--"Merengue Dream," "My Brother's Friend"--begin every chapter, setting the tone of the events to follow, and reinforcing how words shape her life and how her life shapes her words. Young readers will be inspired by Ana Rosa's drive and talent, warmed by vivid stories of her close-knit family, and moved by those who fight for what's right at the greatest possible cost. This lovely, lyrical book dances the merengue, glimmers with sunshine, and sways with island breezes.
——Karin Snelson

In finely wrought chapters that at times read more like a collection of related short stories than a novel, Joseph (Jump Up Time) presents slices from the life of Ana Rosa just as she is about to turn 13. Through the heroine's poetry and recollections, readers gain a rare intimate view of life in the Dominican Republic. Ana Rosa dreams of becoming a writer even though no one but the president writes books; she learns to dance the merengue by listening to the rhythms of her beloved ocean; and the love of her older brother, Guario, comforts her through many difficulties. The author's portraits of Ana Rosa and her family are studies in spare language; the chapters often grow out of one central imageAsuch as the gri gri tree where Ana Rosa keeps watch over her village and gets ideas for her writingAgiving the novel the feel of an extended prose poem. The brevity of the chapters showcases Joseph's gift for metaphoric language (e.g., her description of Ana Rosa's first crush: "My dark eyes trailed him like a line of hot soot wherever he went"). When the easy rhythms of the girl's island life abruptly change due to two major events, the author develops these cataclysms so subtly that readers may not feel the impact as fully as other events, such as the heroine's unrequited love. Still, it's a testimony to the power of Joseph's writing that the developments readers will empathize with most are those of greatest importance to her winning heroine.
—— Publishers Weekly

Joseph paints the world of Ana Rosa and her family in this gem of a novel. The girl dreams of being a writer, but knows that this is a very unusual wish in the Dominican Republic. Like her ever-drinking father, she is a dreamer, but like her Mami, who fears for her daughter's safety if she writes, she learns that time is like the river that rushes by and never passes again. When the government tries to destroy the houses in the village to make room for foreign investors, Ana Rosa writes an article quoting her beloved older brother, Guario, and tries to get support for protecting their homes. Her article is distributed by three newspapers, but her words are not powerful enough to divert money, contracts, bulldozers, and guns. On her 13th birthday, the government troops arrive, shooting begins, and Guario is killed. Six months later, as a late birthday celebration, Ana Rosa receives a typewriter and hundreds of sheets of white paper. Now she has her brother's story to tell and the words are filling up her head. Although Ana Rosa lives in a Caribbean country, readers everywhere will connect with her story, especially those who have dreams, disappointments, tragedy, environmental concerns, and a love of words and writing. Each chapter opens with a poem that sets the mood. A finely crafted novel, lovely and lyrical, this book is a unique addition to library shelves.
——Helen Foster James, University of California at San Diego

The author of A Wave in Her Pocket (1991) and other picture books set in Trinidad moves to the Dominican Republic for her first novel. Ana Rosa may not have her eye fixed on the future the way her beloved big brother, Guario, does, but as she's already filling every available scrap of paper with poems and stories, her vocation is clear. In simple but eloquent verse and prose, she introduces her family and her small, tightly knit community as she recounts pivotal events in her twelfth year, from a first crush to learning that her rum-and-merengue -loving Papi isn't her real father. Then news comes that the whole neighborhood is going to be razed to make way for a tourist hotel. Led by Guario, all band together to protest, but on Ana Rosa's thirteenth birthday the bulldozers arrive, with soldiers to defend them, and she sees Guario shot down. Unlike Frances Temple's Taste of Salt (1992), set in neighboring Haiti, this is less an indictment of a violent, corrupt, repressive regime than a coming-of-age story, propelled as much by the joy of finding the right words and capturing them on paper as by past or present tragedy. In the end, the words that had deserted Ana Rosa at her brother's death begin to sing inside her again, and with a new sense of purpose she resolves to use them to tell her brother's story.
——John Peters

前言/序言

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《爱的教育》中,把爱比成很多东西,确是这样又不仅仅是这些.我想,"爱是什么"不会有明确的答案,但我知道"爱"是没有限制的,小到同学之间的友好交谈,老师对学生的鼓励,父母对孩子无微不至的关爱,甚至萍水相逢的人们的一个微笑……大到捐献骨髓,献血,帮助希望工程…… 虽然如同空气般的爱有时会被"污染","稀释",甚至"消失",所以希望更多的人去感受一下朴实语言中深厚的爱,我想这部好小说将会把这种美好的感受带给更多更多的人.

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几年前曾看到过这样一段话"我在四年前始得此书的日译本,记得曾流了泪三日夜读毕,就是后来在翻译或随便阅读时,还深深地感到刺激,不觉眼睛润湿.这不是悲哀的眼泪,乃是惭愧和感激的眼泪.除了人的资格以外,我在家中早已是二子二女的父亲,在教育界是执过十余年的教鞭的教师.平日为人为父为师的态度,读了这书好像丑女见了美人,自己难堪起来,不觉惭愧了流泪."我一直想拜读这本让夏丐尊先生如此感动的书《爱的教育》,这个寒假终于如愿以偿了.

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等了很久的书，但真心很值

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几年前曾看到过这样一段话"我在四年前始得此书的日译本,记得曾流了泪三日夜读毕,就是后来在翻译或随便阅读时,还深深地感到刺激,不觉眼睛润湿.这不是悲哀的眼泪,乃是惭愧和感激的眼泪.除了人的资格以外,我在家中早已是二子二女的父亲,在教育界是执过十余年的教鞭的教师.平日为人为父为师的态度,读了这书好像丑女见了美人,自己难堪起来,不觉惭愧了流泪."我一直想拜读这本让夏丐尊先生如此感动的书《爱的教育》,这个寒假终于如愿以偿了.

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等了很久的书，但真心很值

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《爱的教育》,我是一口气读完的,虽然我没有流泪,可是我的心已经承认这是一本洗涤心灵的书籍.吸引我的,似乎并不是其文学价值有多高,而在于那平凡而细腻的笔触中体现出来的近乎完美的亲子之爱,师生之情,朋友之谊,乡国之恋……这部处处洋溢着爱的小说所蕴涵散发出的那种深厚,浓郁的情感力量,真的很伟大.《爱的教育》在诉说崇高纯真的人性之爱就是一种最为真诚的教育,而教育使爱在升华.虽然,每个人的人生阅历不同,但是你会从《爱的教育》中,体会到曾经经历过的那些类似的情感,可我们对此的态度行为可能不同.它让我感动的同时也引发了我对于爱的一些思索.

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