Sharma’s austere but moving novel tells the semi-autobiographical story of a family that immigrates from India to Queens, and has just begun to build a new life when the elder son suffers severe brain damage in a swimming pool accident. Deeply unnerving and gorgeously tender, the book chronicles how grief renders the parents unable to cherish and raise their other son; love, it suggests, becomes warped and jagged and even seemingly vanishes in the midst of mourning.
沙瑪的這部小說樸實而感人，是一個半自傳性質的故事，講述了一個印度家庭剛移居紐約皇后區，開始建立新生活不久，長子便由于泳池事故患上嚴重的腦損傷。本書令人深深不安而又極為溫柔，講述了悲傷如何令父母無法去珍惜和撫養另一個兒子的故事；它令人想到，在悲哀的濃霧之中，愛也會變得粗糙扭曲，甚至看似消失。 來源:可可英語 http://www.ccdyzl.cn/read/201412/348761.shtml