我该走了吗 华裔作家李翊云 英文原版 Must I Go

基本信息

ISBN: 9780241978689

ISBN-10: 0241978688

Published: 30th November 2021

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Number of Pages: 368

Audience: General Adult

Publisher: Penguin UK

Dimensions (cm): 2.6 x 12.8 x 19.5

Weight (kg): 0.26

内容介绍

本书内容丰富，感人至深，是《原因尽头》（Where Reasons End）一书的著名作家创作的一部讲述秘密生活和痛苦历史的私密小说。

莉莉娅-利斯卡今年 81 岁。她精明地活过三任丈夫，养育了五个孩子，见证了十七个孙辈的出生。

现在，她把敏锐的目光转向了一本由虚荣出版社出版的奇怪的小书：一个名叫罗兰-布利（Roland Bouley）的男人的日记，

这个男人早已被人遗忘，她曾与他有过一段短暂的恋情。

莉莉娅沉迷于这段私密的历史片段，开始在日记上批注自己对事件的不同看法。渐渐地，她用自己犀利而深刻的评论削弱了罗兰迷人而傲慢的声音。

她向我们揭示了她自己生活中令人惊讶的、隐藏已久的秘密。她无可奈何地回到了女儿露西的身边，露西在 27 岁时自杀身亡。

过去如何塑造未来？面对无法回答的问题，我们该如何生活？我必须离开吗？"

《我必须离开吗》对这些问题进行了思考，以非凡的人生为底蕴，探讨了人类生命的痛苦有限性和人类的无限深度。

Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from the critically acclaimed author of Where Reasons End

Lilia Liska is eighty-one. She has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children and seen the birth of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to a strange little book published by a vanity press: the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair.

Drawn into an obsession over this fragment of intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own, rather different version of events. Gradually she undercuts Roland's charming but arrogant voice with her sharply incisive and deeply moving commentary. She reveals to us the surprising, long-held secrets of her own life. And she returns inexorably to her daughter, Lucy, who took her own life at the age of twenty-seven.

How does the past shape the future? How do we live in the face of the unanswerable? Must I Go considers these questions underlying an extraordinary life, exploring both the painfully finite nature of human life and the infinite depths of human beings.