书名：Life After Life生命不息 

作者：Kate Atkinson 

出版社名称：Black Swan 

出版时间：2014 

语种：英文 

ISBN：9780552776639 

商品尺寸：12.7 x 3.9 x 19.8 cm 

包装：平装 

页数：640★媲美《偷影子的人》的奇思妙想，超过《返老还童》的情节构思 ★英美畅销小说，奥普拉鼎力推荐，畅销全球28个国家 ★英国科斯塔奖年度长篇小说，《纽约时报》、《时代周刊》、《华盛顿邮报》年度图书 ★《暮光之城》制作方购下其电影版权 在Life After Life《生命不息》这部作品中，作者凯特·阿特金森带领读者，跟随女主角厄苏拉的脚步，看她如何在上世纪动荡的年代里，一遍又一遍活过自己的人生。阿特金森借由这个故事让我们见证，即使在黑暗荒芜的时刻依旧有温暖的存在，并且透过她绝妙的叙事与描绘能力，带我们重返过去。《生命不息》颂赞了并存于人类中光明美善与丑陋不堪的面向，是阿特金森笔下深刻且富有想象力的一部作品。 媒体评论： “整个故事具有想象力，感人至深，发人深省，这是我读过的值得回味的长篇小说。” ——奥普拉 “凯特·阿特金森简直太棒了，我想不到更多的形容词来描述我读完的感受：令人愉悦，令人感动，笑中带泪，深刻动人，富有想象力，具有情感共鸣，精巧的叙事和深刻的人性关怀，总之，这是本世纪我读过的精彩的小说。”——美国作家吉莉安·弗琳 “精妙绝伦、令人动容。小说将不同版本的人生故事拼接观照，微妙地诉说了对战争，对人性，对死亡以及生命的感悟。”——《纽约时报》 “对于历史和人性的深刻思考，一部叙事上动人、富有想象力的作品。这是我读过的很棒的一部作品。”——《纽约客》 “非常棒的作品，它兼具了畅销小说的故事性和文学作品的深度，这本书将是阿特金森作家生涯的里程碑式作品，是一定不能错过的好书。”——《泰晤士报》 “这本书同时具备了故事有趣，令人愉悦，极富悬念，催人泪下等多种情绪，你不会感到失望。”——美国国家公共电台 WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life’s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves. Review "Kate Atkinson’s new novel is a box of delights. Ingenious in construction, indefatigably entertaining, it grips the reader’s imagination on the first page and never lets go. If you wish to be moved and astonished, read it. And if you want to give a dazzling present, buy it for your friends." (Hilary Mantel) "There aren't enough breathless adjectives to describe Life After Life: Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound. Wildly inventive, deeply felt. Hilarious. Humane. Simply put: it's ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS I'VE READ THIS CENTURY." (Gillian Flynn,no1 New York Times author of Gone Girl, and Sharp Objects) "What makes Atkinson an exceptional writer – and this is her most ambitious and most gripping work to date – is that she does so with an emotional delicacy and understanding that transcend experiment or playfulness. Life After Life gives us a heroine whose fictional underpinning is permanently exposed, whose artificial status is never in doubt; and yet one who feels painfully, horribly real to us." (Alex Clark Guardian) "Merging family saga with a fluid sense of time and an extraordinarily vivid sense of history at its most human level. A dizzying and dazzling tour de force." (Amber Pearson Daily Mail)要是能够不断重复人生，直到对生命满意为止，你敢这么做吗？ 厄苏拉出生在1910年的英格兰，一个暴风雪之夜，因为医生没能及时赶到，她一出生便窒息而死。然而，在同一天的同一时刻，厄苏拉再次出生并活了下来。之后便有了第三次、第四次，甚至是第无数次的机会。每当犯错，她的生命便会戛然而止，然后陷入新的轮回。她一次次经历20世纪人类黑暗残酷的时刻，也一遍遍承受失去至亲的悲苦。直到她意识到，只有做正确的事，才能结束这可怕的轮回，她会怎么做呢？ 凯特·阿特金森（Kate Atkinson），英国著名畅销小说作家，先后荣获南岸天空艺术文学奖、科斯塔奖，水石书店年度作者，凭借畅销书《生命不息》红遍全球。《生命不息》被《纽约时报》、《时代周刊》、《华盛顿邮报》等20多家媒体评选为年度图书，也是英美畅销的长篇小说之一。 Kate Atkinson won the Costa (formerly the Whitbread) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her bestselling novels include the four featuring former detective Jackson Brodie which became the BBC television series Case Histories, starring Jason Isaacs. Her 2013 novel Life After Life spent a record number of weeks on top of the bestsellers lists on both sides of the Atlantic, and won the South Bank Sky Arts Literature Prize and the Costa Novel Award, a prize Kate Atkinson won again in 2015 for A God in Ruins. Her new novel is Transcription. A fug of tobacco smoke and damp clammy air hit her as she entered the café. She had come in from the rain and drops of water still trembled like delicate dew on the fur coats of some of the women inside. A regiment of white-aproned waiters rushed around at tempo, serving the needs of the Münchner at leisure — coffee, cake and gossip. He was at a table at the far end of the room, surrounded by the usual cohorts and toadies. There was a woman she had never seen before - a permed, platinum blonde with heavy make-up - an actress by the look of her. The blonde lit a cigarette, making a phallic performance out of it. Everyone knew that he preferred his women demure and wholesome, Bavarian preferably. All those dirndls and knee-socks, God help us. The table was laden. Bienenstich, Gugelhupf, Kasekuchen. He was eating a slice of Kirschtorte. He loved his cakes. No wonder he looked so pasty, she was surprised he wasn’t diabetic. The softly repellent body (she imagined pastry) beneath the clothes, never exposed to public view. Not a manly man. He smiled when he caught sight of her and half rose, saying, ‘Guien Tag, gnadiges Fräulein,’ indicating the chair next to him. The bootlicker who was currently occupying it jumped up and moved away. ‘Unsere Englische Freundin,’ he said to the blonde, who blew cigarette smoke out slowly and examined her without any interest before eventually saying, ‘Guten Tag.’ A Berliner. She placed her handbag, heavy with its cargo, on the floor next to her chair and ordered Schokolade. He insisted that she try the Pflaumen Streusel. ‘Es regnet,’ she said by way of conversation. ‘It’s raining.’ ‘Yes, it’s raining.’ he said with a heavy accent. He laughed, pleased at his attempt. Everyone else at the table laughed as well. ‘Bravo,’ someone said. ‘Sehr gutes Englisch.’ He was in a good mood, tapping the back of his index finger against his lips with an amused smile as if he was listening to a tune in his head. The Streusel was delicious. ‘Entschuldigung,’ she murmured, reaching down into her bag and delving for a handkerchief. Lace corners, monogrammed with her initials, ‘UBT’ — a birthday present from Pammy. She dabbed politely at the Streusel flakes on her lips and then bent down again to put the handkerchief back in her bag and retrieve the weighty object nesting there. Her father’s old service revolver from the Great War, a Webley Mark V.