OPEN A BOOK,OPEN THE WORLD
悲傷如何改變一個人？
一位母親與逝去的孩子，在沒有時間與現實束縛的空間裡重逢。
他們談記憶、語言、孤獨，談未能及時說出口的愛與傷害。作者將喪子之痛化作一場跨越生死兩界的對談，試圖以文字再次賦予失去的孩子血肉，而對話越是溫柔，便越是顯露出橫亙兩人之間，無論如何都無法抹消的空缺，也讓讀者窺見最為私密的愛，如何在絕望中仍頑強地存在。
A fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love, "a masterpiece by a master” (Elizabeth McCracken, Vanity Fair).
"Li has converted the messy and devastating stuff of life into a remarkable work of art.”—The Wall Street Journal
WINNER OF THE PEN/JEAN STEIN AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Seghal, The New York Times • NPR • The Guardian • The Paris Review
The narrator of Where Reasons End writes, “I had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my willpower: We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I’m doing it over again, this time by words.”
Yiyun Li meets life’s deepest sorrows as she imagines a conversation between a mother and child in a timeless world. Composed in the months after she lost a child to suicide, Where Reasons End trespasses into the space between life and death as mother and child talk, free from old images and narratives. Deeply moving, these conversations portray the love and complexity of a relationship.
Written with originality, precision, and poise, Where Reasons End is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love.
