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Extraction code: za87 Title: Lovely bones
Author: alice sebold
Douban score: 7.4
Publisher: Little Brown Company
Year of publication: September 0, 20061
Page count: 372
Content introduction:
Lovely Bones: a novel that you can't let go for a long time, but full of hope, a suspense and horror human tragedy, and a funny and warm story of healing the soul.
This book has occupied the first place in The New York Times for nearly 30 weeks, and has been on the list for more than 70 weeks. It has been selling well for two years. Selected as a recommendation book by the American "Monthly Reading Club". And won the "American best novel of the year" award and was selected as the "British book of the year award". Ranked second in the "20 books with good quality in 2003" selected by French magazine Reading. At present, reading books in English, French, Japanese and Chinese are very popular all over the world, with sales exceeding 5 million copies. The film based on this book will also be directed by The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson.
The story "Lovely Bones" is gloomy. It describes the thoughts of a teenage girl after being raped and murdered. The narrator is the deceased himself, and the first sentence of the novel is: "1993 65438+February 6, when I was killed, I was only 14 years old." The protagonist tells about the influence of her murder on her family, the police investigation and her situation after entering heaven. The author looks down from heaven with the eyes of 14-year-old girl Susie, and observes the world she left behind like "a fish floating in the sky". Of course, what she saw was not what she wanted to see: her mother was deeply saddened by her death; Father beat his girlfriend Clarissa and thought her daughter's death was her fault. The real murderer was neighbor Harvey, but the police failed to track him down and let him escape. Susie followed, observing his whereabouts in heaven. Susie also has a good friend Ruth and a younger brother on earth, and Susie's soul keeps appearing in front of them. Good friend Ruth is obsessed with her and will be a witness to the criminal trial wholeheartedly when she grows up. The author finally bid farewell to them in Susie's tone: "I wish you all happiness and longevity." The focus of the story is not to describe the rape and murder case that aroused strong emotions, but to express the victim's inner thinking.
A 14-year-old girl was raped and killed by a serial killer and her body was dismembered. Such a case may not be sensational if it is seen in the American media. If it is used as material to perfuse the novel, it may be a story in which the detective wins by plot. But what about Alice, a woman writer? Sebald, on the other hand, found another way, devoted his sincere feelings and expressed a tearful song of affection.
As the first crystallization of parents' love, Susie is a good girl, although not as clever as her sister Linxi. In her spare time, she helped her father make glass bottle sailing crafts, from which she realized her father's nostalgia for his grandfather. When I took a snapshot of my mother, I understood her depression that she had to be a housewife because of her high education. She is inseparable from her sister, who is one year younger than her. When his brother Buckley was dying, he stepped forward and sent him to the hospital for emergency treatment. She can even have intimate communication with grandma who is addicted to alcohol and has a flashy temperament.
But it is such a lovely little girl who was ravaged and dismembered by gangsters after her death. Only one elbow was found.
Sha Meng's family was devastated by the tragedy. Father Jack is in a trance. After providing suspicious clues to the police many times, he was injured and disabled when he went to catch the suspect at night. Mother Abigail couldn't stand the pain of losing her daughter, so she tried her best to get on well with the inspector's office and then ran away from home. My sister grew up overnight in grief and went to the murderer's house to steal evidence regardless of her life; My four-year-old brother was traumatized when he learned that his sister had passed away. Grandma came to her son-in-law's house to do housework without hesitation, and injected vitality into this family with her optimism and openness. Neighbors and teachers and students of the school spontaneously organized a memorial service, and everyone mourned the dead and comforted their loved ones.
In the past ten years, Susie's former classmates have all graduated from college and embarked on their own life path. Even her family seems to have forgotten the lost family member, although the misfortune and sadness brought by her disaster always hang over the whole family and linger. ..... When my father had a heart attack, my mother rushed back when she heard the news, so it was inevitable to meet her family. When my father came home from the hospital, the whole family was reunited. At this moment, Susie's soul, who was watching from the side, realized that a family is like a human skeleton. Even if one piece is broken or missing, the bone will eventually grow into a whole. As a missing part, although she was attached to this family, everyone felt sorry in her memory, but after this disaster and grief, the whole family finally merged into one. The title of "Lovely Bones" just points out this theme.
Maybe it's because of the current family crisis in America. In recent years, quite a few American writers have devoted themselves to the creation of family novels, but most of them focus on the love and marriage of young and middle-aged people, so they are more like romance novels.
When we first met Susie Salmon, she was already in heaven. When she looked down from this strange new place, she told us an unforgettable and hopeful story with the fresh and lively voice of a girl of 14 years old. In the weeks after her death, Susie watched life on earth go on without her-her school friends spread rumors of her disappearance, her family hoped that she would be found, and her killer tried to cover up his tracks. Months passed without any clues. Susie saw that her parents' marriage was distorted by loss, her sister tried to stay strong, and her brother tried to understand the meaning of the word disappearance. She explored a place called heaven. It looks like her school playground, with a good swing. There are counselors to help newcomers adapt and friends to live with. Everything she wants will appear when she thinks of it, except what she wants most: to return to the people she loves on earth. With sympathy, longing and growing understanding, Susie saw that the person she loved experienced grief and began to recover. Her father embarked on an adventurous mission, trying to catch her killer. Her sister made an extraordinary bold attempt. The boy that Susie cared about moved on, only to find himself at the center of a miracle. Lovely Bones is a bright and amazing novel, which constructs the most promising story from sadness. In the hands of a talented new writer, this story about the worst thing a family can face has been transformed into a suspense and even funny novel about love, memory, joy, heaven and cure.
This edition of the new york Times bestseller and Good Morning America's "Read This" book club featured features available only in electronic version! This e-book includes a reading group guide, an exclusive interview with the author, and "The Eccentricity of the Suburb", alice sebold's comments on growing up in the suburb of "Nowhere in America". Susie Salmon, 0/4 years old, was already in heaven when we first met her. She told us that this was before the milk box photos and public service announcements; Back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed that these things did not happen. Susie told the terrible story of her death and her own adaptation to a strange new place in a sweet and carefree voice of a precocious girl. It looks like her school playground, with a good swing. With love, longing and growing understanding, Susie watched her family cope with their grief-her father began to look for the murderer, her sister performed an amazing feat, and her brother built a fortress for her-and began a difficult healing process. In the hands of a talented new novelist, through the eyes of her award-winning young heroine, this seemingly unbearable tragic story has turned into a suspense, touching and even funny novel about family, memory, love, heaven and life.
On a snowy December day, Susie Salmon, aged 14, was lured to a cornfield on her way home from school and brutally raped and murdered, which was the latest victim of a serial killer. Lovely Bones, alice sebold's unforgettable and heartbreaking debut, begins in heaven, where "life is an eternal yesterday", Susie tells and guards her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and sad detective who investigates her case.
As Sebold said, everyone has his own version of heaven. Susie's school is like the playground and scenery of a suburban high school: her "simplest dream" paradise, where there are "no teachers" ... except for art classes, we never need to go in ... the boys didn't pinch our butts or tell us that we smelled bad; Our textbooks are Seventeen, Charm and Fashion.
Lovely Bones is an odd but touching adult story. Susie struggled to accept her death, while still clinging to the lost life world. Over the years, she has experienced dramatic events in her family. Her family disintegrated in grief: her father was determined to find her killer, her mother chickened out, her brother Buckley tried to understand the new loophole in his family, and her sister Lindsay rode a mental shotgun with Susie through the milestone of her adolescence and young adulthood. Casual behavior and missed opportunities run through the book-Susie recalls her old kiss with a boy on earth, "like an accident-a beautiful gasoline rainbow".
Although it is sometimes sad, Lovely Bones is a touching exploration of loss and mourning, which finally puts faith in the living and becomes stronger through a series of convincing characters. Sebold has carefully arranged a happy ending. Although things are a little too good for everyone in the end, people can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is really a place full of such happy endings.
-Brad Thomas Parsons, Amazon.com.
Alice sebold is the author of the memoir Lucky. She lives in California with her husband, writer Glenn David Gore.
Length: (cm) 17.4 width: (cm) 1 1.2