Josephine Hart's previous two novels were international bestsellers.With Oblivion she compels us to question our relationship with the dead:our desire to remember them……and to forget.
Larua is dead,but she will not go away.Her mother has enshrined her memory;her husband,Andrew,is continually haunted by her presence-even while making love to another woman to whom he cannot commit.He struggles to come to terms with Laura's death.He is immobilized in life.He exists within the shadow of memories of his dead wife ,until he meetsan uncompromising and manipulative playwright whose subject is death and who believes that"happiness is a decision.Make it .And don't cry."Her play's cast-like memories of the dead-is disturbing:the killer who knows death too well;the abused wife who died a chilling death;the golden girl with a wish for immortality;the soldier haunted by a dead comrade;and a man emotionally dead long before his murder.
Andrew becomes caught between the pain of living and the memories of the dead,traumatized by the recognition that the memory of the only womanhe has ever desired will,through life's brutality ,be lost.In this hauntign and ethereal story the dead demand to be heard,crying out for revenge,forgiveness,under standing.Above all they want to be rescued from the second dead of oblivion.
Oblivion is a daring and beautiful novel in which disturbing truths about death and sex,love and remembrance are much at the heart.
作者简介
JOSEPHINE HART was born and educated in Ireland.In the 1960s she worked in publishing in London,becoming a director of Haymarket Publishing.She has also produced several successful West End plays,including the award-winning The House of Bernarna Alba and Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince,and many poetry productions,as well as hosting Thames TV'S Books By My Beside.She is the author of two internationally bestselling novels ,Damage,which was made into a major movie,and Sin. |
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