小說/散文

Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
出版社： Penguin Putnam Inc.
書林書號：
20270940
作者：
Freitas, Donna
定價：
560
會員價：
$476
ISBN：
9780593298732
出版年份：
2021
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
0
  • 本書介紹
The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano平行宇宙的我，與現在決策完全相反的我，會發生什麼事？Rose 跟丈夫 Luke 大吵一架，明明婚前就表明自己不想懷孕、不想養小孩，Luke也曾保證他也不想要，但如今他卻改變心意，問題是 Rose 能為了婚姻也改變心意－讓她就此改變自己往後的人生嗎？而同樣的爭執再次上演， 但這一次Rose給出了不同的答覆，她的人生也走向了不同的方向。九種不一樣的人生從是否成為母親的決定開始分歧，作者 Donna Freitas 透過各種「如果」讓女主人翁的生命展現不同的樣貌，這不僅是一本探討婚姻、人生價值的小說，也是陪同女子們摸索成為母親的道路，犧牲與獲得是否值得，無法用一言一語說盡，也無法用物質衡量。ISBN: 9780593298732Rose Napolitano is fighting with her husband, Luke, about prenatal vitamins. She promised she'd take them, but didn't. He promised before they got married that he'd never want children, but now he's changed his mind. Their marriage has come to rest on this one question: Can Rose find it in herself to become a mother? Rose is a successful professor and academic. She's never wanted to have a child. The fight ends, and with it their marriage.But then, Rose has a fight with Luke about the vitamins--again. This time the fight goes slightly differently, and so does Rose's future as she grapples with whether she can indeed give up the one thing she thought she knew about herself. Can she reimagine her life in a completely new way? That reimagining plays out again and again in each of Rose's nine lives, just as it does for each of us as we grow into adulthood. What are the consequences of our biggest choices? How would life change if we let go of our preconceived ideas of ourselves and became someone completely new? Rose Napolitano's experience of choosing and then choosing again shows us in an utterly compelling way what it means, literally, to reinvent a life and, sometimes, become a different kind of woman than we ever imagined.A stunning novel about love, loss, betrayal, divorce, death, a woman's career and her identity, The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano is about finding one's way into a future that wasn't the future one planned, and the ways that fate intercedes when we least expect it.
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