Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life.
So Tom moves back to London, his old home, to become a high school his...
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life.
So Tom moves back to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's history first hand. Better yet, a captivating French teacher at his school seems fascinated by him. But the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society's watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance, the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present.
作者简介
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Matt Haig was born in Sheffield, England in1975. He writes books for both adults and children, often blending the worlds of domestic reality and outright fantasy, with a quirky twist. His bestselling novels are translated into 28 languages. The Guardian has described his writing as 'delightfully weird' and the New York Times has called him 'a novelist of great talent' whose wri...
Matt Haig was born in Sheffield, England in1975. He writes books for both adults and children, often blending the worlds of domestic reality and outright fantasy, with a quirky twist. His bestselling novels are translated into 28 languages. The Guardian has described his writing as 'delightfully weird' and the New York Times has called him 'a novelist of great talent' whose writing is 'funny, riveting and heartbreaking'.
His novels for adults are The Last Family in England, narrated by a labrador and optioned for film by Brad Pitt; The Dead Fathers Club (2006), an update of Hamlet featuring an 11-year-old boy; The Possession of Mr Cave (2008), about a man obsessed with his daughter's safety, and The Radleys (2010) which won Channel 4's TV Book Club public vote and was shortlisted for a Galaxy National Book Award (UK). The film rights to all his adult novels have been sold. His next adult novel is The Humans (2013).
His multi-award winning popular first novel for children, Shadow Forest, was published in 2007 and its sequel, The Runaway Troll, in 2009. His most recent children's novel is To Be A Cat (2012).
The longer you live, the more you realise that nothing is fixed. Everyone will become a refugee if they live long enough. Everyone would realise their nationality means little in the long run. Everyone would see their worldviews challenged and disproved. Everyone would realise that the thing that defines a human being is being a human.
Turtles don’t have nations. Or flags. Or strategic nuclear weapons. They don’t have terrorism or referendums or trade wars with China. They don’t have Spotify playlists for their workouts. They don’t have books on the decline and fall of turtle empires. They don’t have internet shopping or self-service checkouts.
Other animals don’t have progress, they say. But the human mind itself doesn’t progress. We stay the same glorified chimpanzees, just with ever big... (查看原文)
Love is where you find the meaning. Those seven years I was with her contained more than anything else. Do you understand? You can take all the years before and since and weigh them next to those, and they wouldn’t stand a chance. That’s the thing with time, isn’t it? It’s not all the same. Some days – some years – some decades – are empty. There is nothing to them. It’s just flat water. And then you come across a year, or even a day, or an afternoon. And it is everything. It is the whole thing
A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it. It’s sometimes more dangerous to shy away. You can’t live your life in fear, Tom. You have to be prepared to get on your board and stand on your feet. If you are in the barrel of a wave you have to ignore the fear. You have to be in that moment. You have to c... (查看原文)
The key to happiness wasn’t being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best
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1 有用 ocean11 2018-02-28 22:12:21
The way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it。读过的作者第二本以异类身份第一人称写的小说了，按他解释，这本小说的创意恰恰来自上一本the humans。无论你活多久，真正有意义的只在当下，这么简单的道理为什么要不断重申？
0 有用 Öox 2022-01-29 00:14:22
The key to happiness wasn’t being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best
0 有用 Amoranova 2024-09-23 08:45:08 英国
作者的书真的很适合改编成电影或者剧，只要再稍稍打磨一下剧情就会变成很经典的作品。 构思特别好，但呈现出来还是过于狗血，套路化……那几百年的岁月，经历了无数次战争，主角是怎么安全，健康的度过的？这些细节的缺乏让故事像童话一样不切实际，而更不切实际的便是这种类型的故事一定要有一个反派出来塑造冲突，而在故事结尾，会发现这个反派没有任何意义。 如果换个名字，这本书应该叫无数个世纪的孤独，一个错误可以让... 作者的书真的很适合改编成电影或者剧，只要再稍稍打磨一下剧情就会变成很经典的作品。 构思特别好，但呈现出来还是过于狗血，套路化……那几百年的岁月，经历了无数次战争，主角是怎么安全，健康的度过的？这些细节的缺乏让故事像童话一样不切实际，而更不切实际的便是这种类型的故事一定要有一个反派出来塑造冲突，而在故事结尾，会发现这个反派没有任何意义。 如果换个名字，这本书应该叫无数个世纪的孤独，一个错误可以让人一生难忘，而当一生的期限无限延长，那这错误便会生根，再也无法补赎——可永生的代价是什么呢？除了逐渐模糊，却越来越痛的的记忆？我难以想象，无法死去这样苦涩的诅咒，竟会让人情愿一直东躲西藏，活在暗影中几个世纪，而不愿面对死亡。又或者，忍着痛苦一直不去死，选择带着内疚活着，才是最大的勇气…… (展开)
0 有用 翘课Booyah! 2020-11-30 15:20:49
还行吧 里面有一些元素跟midnight library是一样的 这个作者在写抑郁的心境方面一流 在致谢部分讲到卷福想把它改成电影果然没认错哈哈
0 有用 ︶沒有茹果。 2023-03-27 21:16:17 英国
活在当下。和《The Midnight Library》一样给我一种鸡汤感。“活很久的人类”这个设定，本期待讲更有趣一点的故事。可以理解作者想传达“几个世纪都无事发生然后一切都发生在一瞬间”，但结局真的略显仓促，反派死的莫名其妙。整本好像啰啰嗦嗦说了一大堆，不过是个很简单的情节。