All The Broken Places《那些破碎的地方》John Boyne
《穿條紋衣的男孩》動人續曲，
約翰‧波恩寫作生涯最高傑作！
我知道你未曾離開，
在綿長的思念裡，在永恆的愛裡，
在那遙遠的，另一個地方……
葛蕾朵這輩子走過許多地方，如今她住在倫敦富裕的公寓社區安度晚年，丈夫已先一步辭世。她為人和善，偶爾會到鄰居家串門子，她的兒子準備梅開四度，雖然母子關係不錯，但她曾在兒子9歲時缺席了整整一年……從好久以前，她就不擅長與小男孩相處。
直到新鄰居搬進公寓樓下，讓她平靜的生活再起波瀾。他們是三口之家，父親是電影製片，成功卻自大無禮；母親曾是演員，容貌美麗，卻藏不住深深的憂鬱；還有9歲的男孩亨利，天真無邪，喜歡冒險故事。
一天夜裡，葛蕾朵被樓下傳來的爭執聲驚醒，憤怒失控的男人正在對痛苦無助的母子施暴。當她目睹了這起暴行，腦海中一段塵封已久的記憶也被喚醒。她還記得「那件事」，她還記得她的弟弟布魯諾，她還記得那個穿條紋衣的男孩。
葛蕾朵從來沒有告訴別人，自從「那件事」以後，她餘生的每一步，都踏在崩裂之處。如今當亨利遍體鱗傷地站在她面前，悔恨與愧疚有如洶湧的浪潮狠狠朝她襲來。這一次，她無法視若無睹，她決定要不惜一切代價捍衛他，為了那個她費盡一生思念的人……
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany over seventy years before. She doesn't talk about the post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps.
Then, a young family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can't help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a violent argument between Henry's mother and his domineering father, one that threatens Gretel's hard-won, self-contained existence.
Gretel is faced with a chance to expiate her guilt, grief and remorse and act to save a young boy - for the second time in her life. But to do so, she will be forced to reveal her true identity to the world. Will she make a different choice this time, whatever the cost to herself?
All the Broken Places is a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her past and a present in which it is never too late for bravery.
