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Homeseeking

作者:Chen, Karissa

出版社:Penguin USA

年份:2025

ISBN:9780593854433

書號:20324766

裝訂:平裝

定價:$665

優惠價:$499

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Homeseeking【最長的相思,是看不見卻永存心底】

 

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一個選擇,有時會改變所有人的命運。


2008年,已年近遲暮的王海文再一次於洛杉磯的超市看見張蘇琦,他愣住了。蘇琦,有著細瘦肩膀與黑色長髮的蘇琦,他的蘇琦。

時間在他心中瞬間倒流回二戰後1947年的上海,他與蘇琦分開的那天。他們自小就認識,在窄小卻熱鬧的衖堂裡長大,蘇琦深深被海文的小提琴聲所吸引,從青梅竹馬到成為彼此的初戀,本該開花結果的愛情,卻在海文決定代替哥哥從軍,投入對抗共產黨的戰爭,就此慨然分別。他留給蘇琦的只有一把小提琴和一張字條寫著:「原諒我」。

60年過去,兩人再次於美國重逢,恍若隔世,海文試圖想找回兩人之間的回憶,但蘇琦早已將過去痛苦的記憶拋下,向前邁進。步入人生最後階段的他們,是否還有重新開始的機會?
 
從上海的老街到香港的酒吧舞廳;從動盪的中國到縹緲的雨港基隆,最終來到灑滿加州陽光的美國,橫越60年的故事,紀錄也見證歷史的變遷。從未改變的,是對家的嚮往與暗藏於心底,最深的思念。

 

From WWII to 2008, this deeply moving story follows one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland.

 

Haiwen is buying bananas at a 99 Ranch Market in Los Angeles when he looks up and sees Suchi, his Suchi, for the first time in sixty years. To recently widowed Haiwen it feels like a second chance, but Suchi has only survived by refusing to look back.

 

Suchi was seven when she first met Haiwen in their Shanghai neighborhood, drawn by the sound of his violin. Their childhood friendship blossomed into soul-deep love, but when Haiwen secretly enlisted in the Nationalist army in 1947 to save his brother from the draft, she was left with just his violin and a note: Forgive me.

 

Homeseeking follows the separated lovers through six decades of tumultuous Chinese history as war, famine, and opportunity take them separately to the song halls of Hong Kong, the military encampments of Taiwan, the bustling streets of New York, and sunny California, telling Haiwen’s story from the present to the past while tracing Suchi’s from her childhood to the present, meeting in the crucible of their lives. Throughout, Haiwen holds his memories close while Suchi forces herself to look only forward, neither losing sight of the home they hold in their hearts.

 

At once epic and intimate, Homeseeking is a story of family, sacrifice, and loyalty, and of the power of love to endure beyond distance, beyond time.

作者介紹
Karissa Chen is a Fulbright fellow, Kundiman Fiction fellow, and a VONA/Voices fellow whose fiction and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Eater, The Cut, NBC News THINK!, Longreads, PEN America, Catapult, Gulf Coast, and Guernica, among others. She was awarded an artist fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as well as residences at Millay Arts, where she was a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts; the Ragdale Foundation; and Willapa Bay AiR. She was formerly a senior fiction editor at The Rumpus and currently serves as the editor-in-chief at Hyphen magazine. She received an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and splits her time between New Jersey and Taipei, Taiwan.