The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Kim Edwards (born 1958) is an American author and educator. Her first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2006), is a New York Times Bestseller.She wrote the short story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King (1997), which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, and has won both a Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award. A graduate of Colgate University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she currently teaches writing at the University of Kentucky.

出版者:Penguin

作者:Kim Edwards

页数:432

出版时间:2007-4-26

价格:GBP 6.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780141030142

图书标签:不存在的女儿外国文学小说美国爱德华兹KimEdwards文学<<不存在的女儿>>美国

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Families have secrets they hide even from themselves...

It should have been an ordinary birth, the start of an ordinary happy

family. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night

that will haunt five lives for ever.

For though David's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down's syndrome.

And, in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will

reveal, he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her

care to a nurse.

As grief quietly tears apart David's family, so a little girl must make her

own way in the world as best she can.

读后感

"你捕捉不住光线。你只能抬起头来，让光线照在你的脸上。”“爸爸试图让一切定格，但世界是流动的，包围不住的。” 英文的书名是——the timekeeper's daughter,读完印象最深的并不是故事的主线——谎言造成的隔阂，而是亨利用相机徒劳地捕捉每个光与影。就像他儿子保...  

很細膩的描寫,是我喜歡的風格. 我不知道david是出於什麽一種考慮,以至於狠心把自己智障的女兒送到那個收養中心,或許是出於過往的陰影,或許是出於對妻子的保護.可是最後,卻只是好心辦壞事--秘密橫亙在家人中間,形成巨大的鴻溝.這個故事,再次驗證了蝴蝶效應. 其實我覺得這也算...  

《不存在的女儿》看完已多时，当这本书在豆瓣大热时我不想多说什么。不想成为异己，去和追捧着较劲。当最初的热闹过后，在这夏日的晚上，静静的写下自己的读后感。 我非常同情男主人翁戴维，虽然悲剧是他一手造成的。我相信他在万难中决定送掉患唐氏综合症的菲比是出于...  

女儿不是不存在了，只是存在于一个亲生父母不知道的国度 并于此国度生活得好好的 纵使看到了戴维的内疚与后悔，亦知道他做出如此一个决定的原因， 纵使明白到菲比如果呆在亲生父母身边并不一定比现在幸福， 可是，依然无法认同将亲生儿女抛弃的行为。 此书与其他书相比更注...  

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人物和事情刻画太细致了????读起来太累了

人物和事情刻画太细致了????读起来太累了