大卫·伊格曼，贝勒医学院神经医学博士后，曾在牛津大学攻读英美文学。他是饱读文艺作品、诗人气质浓郁的科学家，在美国多家报纸开有专栏。

《生命的清单》酝酿了7年，集中了他对生命的思考和对心灵的洞见，甫一推出即惊艳英美图书界。目前已经售出22国版权，并且被改编成歌剧，2009年9月在悉尼歌剧院上演，这在当代文学作品改编史上是极为罕见的。

评论界认为，《生命的清单》有着卡尔维诺、博尔赫斯、埃柯的智慧小品一样的奇趣，既轻灵又深沉，值得人们反复品读。

伊格曼的来世景象绝对颠覆你以往从任何

“导师”和“经典”中获得的印象和安慰。他创见性地就圣行与长生设置了新的基准，为人们找到了一个绝对不同的、戏讽的、新奇的来生世界。

读过它，你一定会觉得吃惊、纳闷，并且或多或少打乱人生的步伐。它的锐利和刻薄让你重新思考和打量世界，它的智慧和温暖也会让你更加勇敢地继续以后的生活。

生命本身，就是一场醒着的梦；来世只是一面镜子，它反映并写照今生。

译者简介：

赵海波，经济学博士，毕业于南开大学国际经济研究所，现任教于天津大学经济研究所。

FUNNY, WISTFUL, AND UNSETTLING

Sum is a dazzling exploration of funny and unexpected afterlives that have never been considered-each presented as a vignette that offers us a stunning lens through which to see ourselves here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people's dreams. Or you may find that you are split into your different ages, or forced to live with annoying versions of who you could have been. These wonderfully imagined tales are rooted in science and romance and awe: a mixture of hope, hilarity, immortality, love, biology, and desire that exposes radiant new facets of our humanity.