Award-winning writer Kim Edwardsas "The Memory Keeperas Daughter" is a brilliantly crafted family drama that explores every motheras silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Downas syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by David Henryas fateful decision that long-ago winter night. A rich and deeply moving page-turner, "The Memory Keeperas Daughter" captures the way life takes unexpected turns and how the mysterious ties that hold a family together help us survive the heartache that occurs when long-buried secrets burst into the open. It is an astonishing tale of redemptive love.
金·爱德华兹:生于德州,长于纽约,现为肯德基大学英文系助理教授,常于各地举办写作工作坊,著有短篇小说集《火王的秘密》。《不存在的女儿》是她出版的第一部长篇小说。
她是美国各大文学奖项的常胜客。2002年她获得怀丁基金会的怀丁作家奖(Whiting Award),1998年则人选海明威文学奖。她还得过芝加哥论坛报举办的倪尔森爱格林奖(Nelson Algren Award),全国杂志奖(National Magazine Award)等等。
这是一个特别伤感的故事:有着美好生活的亨利夫妇,在一个寒夜迎来了双胞胎儿女,但丈夫发现女儿患有“唐氏综合症”,便瞒着妻子,委托护士卡罗琳把孩子送到福利院,然后骗妻子诺拉说女儿死了。“唐氏综合症”是一种因为婴儿细胞染色体异常引起的疾病,会使婴儿有轻度或中度的...
评分那本来可以是夫妻一起去面对的事情。风雪之夜,年轻的妻子产下一子一女,儿子平安健康,女儿患有唐氏综合征(先天性弱智)。身为医生的丈夫叫人把女儿送走,骗妻子说只有儿子平安出世,女儿出生就死了。他以为这样就保护了妻子。妻子因失去一个孩子受到忧郁症的折磨,丈夫则被...
评分很細膩的描寫,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...
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