Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair.
Increasingly obsessed with Roland's intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own rather different version of events, revealing the surprising, long-held secrets of her past. She returns inexorably to the memory of her daughter Lucy. This is a novel about life in all its messy glory, and of a life lived, by the extraordinary Lilia, absolutely on its own terms. With great candor and insight, Yiyun Li navigates the twin poles of grief and resilience, loss and rebirth, that compass a human heart.
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你必须小心,不要不知不觉变得毫无所谓。斤斤计较地活着,释怀地死去,死了便了无牵挂。
“他们给你找来替代品,认为这样做是在帮你。可相信我。失去至爱后的日子漫长空洞。” 联想到李翊云经历儿子自杀,从平静克制的句子中读出了心碎。
人生中有一些真正的痛。那种痛绕不过去。它不像在电视上看到的雷区,人们带着特殊装备在那儿标出地雷的位置,然后携带另一批特殊装备的人把这些地雷除去。哦,不,你不知道何时何地会有事发生在你身上,但迟早会。唯一的区别呢?你的下场可能不是行动时少了一条胳膊或腿。在世人眼里,你看起来没有两样。
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