The Lovely Bones is the story of a family devastated by a gruesome murder -- a murder recounted by the teenage victim. Upsetting, you say? Remarkably, first-time novelist Alice Sebold takes this difficult material and delivers a compelling and accomplished exploration of a fractured family's need for peace and closure.
The details of the crime are laid out in the first few page...
The Lovely Bones is the story of a family devastated by a gruesome murder -- a murder recounted by the teenage victim. Upsetting, you say? Remarkably, first-time novelist Alice Sebold takes this difficult material and delivers a compelling and accomplished exploration of a fractured family's need for peace and closure.
The details of the crime are laid out in the first few pages: from her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by the murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school. Lured into an underground hiding place, she was raped and killed. But what the reader knows, her family does not. Anxiously, we keep vigil with Susie, aching for her grieving family, desperate for the killer to be found and punished.
Sebold creates a heaven that's calm and comforting, a place whose residents can have whatever they enjoyed when they were alive -- and then some. But Susie isn't ready to release her hold on life just yet, and she intensely watches her family and friends as they struggle to cope with a reality in which she is no longer a part. To her great credit, Sebold has shaped one of the most loving and sympathetic fathers in contemporary literature.
9月15日，星期五，上午11点，我在纽约Penn Station火车站等同事，顺便溜达进出口处的书店，顺手拿起一本书来翻看。书的名字叫The Lovely Bones，似乎在豆瓣还是哪里见过介绍的，一直没有翻过。"I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."(1973年12月6日，我被...
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外面在下雨，黑黑的夜无边，时而有路灯光从窗外洒落进车窗，冰凉地铺洒到手中的书上。 纸惨白。 故事惨白。 火车奔腾在默默长夜中，我心底飘过几声叹息，有泪水为苏西哭泣。 “1973年12月6日，我被谋杀时才十四岁……” 这是故事的开头，这句I was fourteen when I was murder...
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艾丽斯·西伯德 作者
老郑卖茶🌈
作家出版社2004版
blue_star
Little, Brown and Company2002版
当归莳子
南海出版公司2010版
0 有用 和风煦日 2010-03-15 21:18:07
To live for both the living and dead.
0 有用 何KC 2009-12-20 23:45:01
開頭很不錯,但是結尾得跟我想象大相徑庭.又或者,它出色的開頭讓我把它當成偵探玄疑小説看了.= =
0 有用 Bellbei 2007-11-16 01:29:40
But no finished it...
0 有用 Paladin.W 2010-02-04 18:13:30
3年后才读原版。还记得当年买中文版时的简单原因和读的过程中的奇妙感受
1 有用 胖蛋 2010-04-26 08:22:58
当年读的时候哭了一下午。 我觉得我如同里面的爸爸一样。只是身份情景完全调换。总觉得他那样固执地要找出凶手，其实只是发泄，将心中失去的痛苦发泄在那人身上。 每一次读到他周围人无法忍受他对过去的沉溺时我都会失声痛哭。每个人都叫他放手，叫他对活着的人重视。他并没有不重视身边的人，何况到了最后他自己也选择忘记了。但是，我总是无法明白，为什么一定要忘记，为什么就选择那样轻松地享受自己的生活，轻松地抛弃了她。... 当年读的时候哭了一下午。 我觉得我如同里面的爸爸一样。只是身份情景完全调换。总觉得他那样固执地要找出凶手，其实只是发泄，将心中失去的痛苦发泄在那人身上。 每一次读到他周围人无法忍受他对过去的沉溺时我都会失声痛哭。每个人都叫他放手，叫他对活着的人重视。他并没有不重视身边的人，何况到了最后他自己也选择忘记了。但是，我总是无法明白，为什么一定要忘记，为什么就选择那样轻松地享受自己的生活，轻松地抛弃了她。在那些障碍重重调查凶手的日子里，只有他一个人，忍受众人嘲笑与不理解，忍受自己内心的煎熬，忍受对女儿的想念，孤独地受着伤害。为什么要忘记？在每一个人都忘记之后，只剩自己一人孤军奋战，若连最后一点记忆都失去了，死去的那人将情何以堪？活着的人那么幸福，能够享受到与他一起生活的点滴，而死去的女孩，悲哀地在天堂遥远地注视他们。她的爸爸不过是思念着她而已，他们竟如此忍心，剥夺她唯一一点幸福么？ 只是思念而已，不想忘记不愿忘记，宁肯忍受那种割心的绞痛那种绝望的孤独，也不要这样忘记。多年过去，即使在他心脏病发作昏迷的时候，仍然不忘寻找她。他说他看见她，即便没人相信，他也坚定不移。 遗忘对于被遗忘的那个人来说是痛苦的，而遗忘的过程对遗忘的那个人来说才是最痛苦的。 (展开)