On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously clenched against a reality that she cannot face and cannot deny; and then, over the ensuing years, as she emerges reluctantly, slowly allowing her memory to take her back through the rich and joyous life she’s mourning, from her family’s home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo; all the while learning the difficult balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and the need to keep her family, somehow, still alive within her.
發表於2025-03-05
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圖書標籤: 紀實 海嘯 美國文學 斯裏蘭卡 迴憶 外國文學 傳記/紀實/信 調查-時評-紀實
看完這本紀實小說,再迴憶年初的奧斯卡題名“The Impossible”。兩個真實故事,本書作者失去瞭父母丈夫和小孩,自己卻幸免遇難,後者一傢五口全部生還且毫無傷殘。命運殘酷無情且毫無公平可言。
評分現實或說自然可以非常殘酷,比如作者Sonali Deraniyagala所遭遇的,在2004年的南亞海嘯中,她失去瞭丈夫、孩子和雙親,自己卻奇跡般的生還,幾乎想象不齣還有比這更大的傷痛。迴憶錄Wave讓人感受到瞭文字的力量和堅強,讓人相信書寫真的是可以抵禦死亡和消逝,可以帶來重生。
評分雖作者終究(不得不)走齣瞭悲哀,但在走齣之前對悲哀一遍又一遍的細細咀嚼,對於旁的人來說,總是會覺得麻木以至於厭煩的。
評分這不是一本輕鬆的書,因為死亡嚮來冰冷,獨自存活尤其可怕。對於Sonali來說,她可能寜願海嘯把自己也吞沒。她跟英國丈夫帶著兩個兒子迴娘傢過聖誕,可是災難襲來毫無預兆,她在巨浪中失去瞭所有至親。在讓人窒息的災難過後,她奇跡般活瞭下來,可她的人生已經成瞭灰色。在書的前三分之一,我整顆心都是揪著的,恐懼、痛苦、愧疚、仇恨、消沉如幽靈不肯散去;自我催眠和恢復階段,是最摺磨人的一部分,如同吸毒者不斷反復;當然因為有瞭最後的尋找迴憶和自我救贖,這本書變得彌足珍貴,因為作者拯救的不隻有自己,還有麻木太久的我和你。
評分字字如作者在泣血。父母、丈夫、兒子都在海嘯中去世,留下自己一人苟活,這不是幸運,這是被詛咒的人。全書沒有目錄、沒有標題,其實寫這樣一種迴憶,誰又會有心情靜下來去整理一個目錄,然後再給每個部分起一個標題呢?拒絕接受現實、尋死,一直到最後坦然接受,或許這是每個受傷的心靈都必須經過的路程吧。
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