当理性结束时 华裔作家李翊云 英文原版 Where Reasons End

基本信息

ISBN: 9780241985182

ISBN-10: 0241985188

Published: 15th April 2020

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Number of Pages: 192

Audience: General Adult

Publisher: Penguin UK

Country of Publication: GB

Dimensions (cm): 1.2 x 13 x 19.7

Weight (kg): 0.14

内容介绍

日子：*容易拥有的东西。他拒绝的日子会一个接一个地到来。每当天亮，它们就会以无尽的耐心和冷漠等待着，看能否把我变成自己的盟友或敌人。

一个女人十几岁的儿子自杀了。这是不可理解的。这位妇女是一位作家，

因此她试图在她*熟悉的空间里理解她的悲伤：在书页上，与她失去的孩子进行想象中的对话。

他死后和生前一样敏锐、风趣、严肃，他会对她回话，无法解释或安慰，但还没有，还没有完全消失。

《原因的尽头》是对为人父母的非凡描绘，充满了欢乐、幽默和悲伤的痛苦矛盾，以及失去孩子的痛苦。

'Days: the easiest possession. The days he had refused would come, one at a time. They would wait, every daybreak, with their boundless patience and indifference, seeing if they could turn me into an ally or an enemy to myself.'

A woman's teenage son takes his own life. It is incomprehensible. The woman is a writer, and so she attempts to comprehend her grief in the space she knows best: on the page, as an imagined conversation with the child she has lost. He is as sharp and funny and serious in death as he was in life itself, and he will speak back to her, unable to offer explanation or solace, but not yet, not quite, gone.

Where Reasons End is an extraordinary portrait of parenthood, in all its painful contradictions of joy, humour and sorrow, and of what it is to lose a child.