Is it possible to grow up while getting younger?
Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It’s quiet and peaceful. You can’t get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere’s museums. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroe’s psychiatric practice. Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driver’s license. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. And now that she’s dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesn’t want with a grandmother she has only just met. And it is not going well. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward? This moving, often funny book about grief, death, and loss will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned.
加•澤文 (Gabrielle Zevin ,1977—)
美國作傢、電影劇本編劇。年輕並極富魅力,深愛閱讀與創作,為《紐約時報書評》撰稿,現居洛杉磯。
畢業於哈佛大學英美文學係,已經齣版瞭八本小說,作品被翻譯成二十多種語言。14歲時,她寫瞭一封關於“槍與玫瑰樂團”的信 函投給當地報社,措辭激烈,意外獲得該報的樂評人一職,邁齣瞭成為作傢的第一步。28歲時,她齣版《時光倒流的女孩》一舉成名。一直以來,她對書、書店以及愛書人的未來,充滿見解。她的第八本小說《島上書店》在2014年以史無前例的最高票數,獲選美國獨立書商選書第一名。
作者官網:http://gabriellezevin.com/
一个小姑娘死了,但她抵达了“另界”,经由她所经历的时光倒流,她从死向生,逆回了生的起点。 而对于她自身来讲,从生到死,从死到生,她所完成的,都是一种彼岸的抵达。 加泽文的小说《时光倒流的女孩》,讲了这样一个有关抵达的故事。阅读这一本书,起初的体验是一种新奇,...
評分单看书名《时光倒流的女孩》,你或许以为这是《巴顿本杰明奇事》的姐妹篇,也是一个关于在时间长河中溯流而上的故事,无非是主角由男人变成了女人。我只能说,你猜对了一半,它们确实有些相似的地方,比如逆生长、比如人生得失、比如那无处寄托的感情。然而,两者之间毕竟有一...
評分可读性不如前作,但亦有可取之处 首先从整体上来说,这本书的阅读体验,比前作《岛上书店》是要差一点的,无论对于人物性格的塑造,矛盾、高潮的安排上都略显不足。但这本书到比前者更容易引人反思当下,如果说《岛上书店》是告诉你没有人是一座孤岛,每个人都是相互勾连,你...
very interesting to read
评分治愈類簡易讀物
评分也是“書單來瞭”的公眾號種草的一本書,看完《天藍色的彼岸》以後接著看的這本,怎麼說呢,不是引人入勝和看瞭就停不下來的小說,但是感覺這本書的意義在於,能夠讓人在讀的過程中思考一些東西。人在離開這個世界的時候,無論他是幾歲,十幾歲還是九十幾歲,都會有遺憾。而有時候,隻有一個人離開這個世界,周圍的人纔會體會到他的重要。書裏描寫的這兩個世界,像一棵樹的地上部分和地下部分,雖是連接在一起,卻分隔兩個世界。珍愛身邊一切自己愛的人,因為有一天總會分開。不要在親人離開的傷痛中齣不來,他們會在另外一個世界好好地等你,還會再見。珍惜時間,做好這個世界要做的所有事情,因為再迴到這個世界,已經是另外一個自己。珍惜,努力,盡可能少留遺憾。
评分We Take Care of Our Own,In his memoir, Elsewhere, he writes with his distinctive intelligence and humor about his childhood and his still-conflicted class emigration from blue-collar kid to college professor and writer.
评分我看瞭中文的譯本,很有想象力
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