讀《FT·金融時(shí)報(bào)》學(xué)英語(yǔ)：《想象我已離去》

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Lucy Kellaway
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Imagine Me Gone (Hamish Hamilton/Little, Brown) is about a father who kills himself and a son who later does the same.Adam Haslett's second novel, about what mental illness does to the bonds within a New England family, ought to be too harrowing to read for pleasure.Instead it is so understanding, so intelligently written that it is as uplifting as it is upsetting.Love may not be strong enough to change the course of mental illness—but it defines the survivors and ends up saving them.
《想象我已離去》是一部有關(guān)父子相繼自殺的故事。這是亞當(dāng)·哈斯利特的第二部小說(shuō)，關(guān)于飽受精神病折磨的新英格蘭家庭所發(fā)生的故事。如果是為了消遣而讀，這本書(shū)過(guò)于沉重。不過(guò)，這本書(shū)如此深刻，寫(xiě)作手法如此聰明，令人振奮又令人沮喪。愛(ài)也許并沒(méi)有強(qiáng)大到可以改變心理疾病的進(jìn)程，但是它定義了活下來(lái)的人的意義，并最終挽救了他們。