TONIO: A REQUIEM MEMOIR
Book ID/图书代码： 11980516B87422
English Summary/英文概要： Winner of the 2012 Libris Literature Prize — the Dutch equivalent of the Booker Prize — and a bestseller in Holland and Germany, this is a mesmerising rendition of grief and love. On Pentecost 2010, Tonio — the only son of writer Adri van der Heijden — is hit by a car. He dies of his injuries that same day. Tonio is only 21. His parents are faced with the monstrous task of forging ahead with their lives in the knowledge that their only child will never again come home, never again stop by just to catch up, never again go out shopping with his mother, and bitch about passers-by, never again ask his father: ‘Did you work well today?’ Never again.
Adri van der Heijden is driven by two compelling questions: what happened to Tonio during the final days and hours before the accident, and how could this accident happen? This search takes in various eyewitnesses, friends, police officers, doctors, and the mysterious Jenny — who turns out to have played a crucial role in Tonio’s life during those final weeks.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 2012 Libris文学大奖获得者，荷兰和德国畅销作家，这是一本有关悲痛和爱的迷人演绎。
2010年的圣灵降临节，作家Adri van der Heijden的独子Tonio 遭遇车祸，当天不治身亡，年仅21岁，他的父母不得不面临惨痛的事实：他们唯一的儿子再也回不来了，再也不会和他的母亲一起去购物、也再也不会问他的父亲：今天工作怎么样？，再也不会了……
Adri van der Heijden受到两个强烈的问题的困扰：Tonio出事的当天以及事故发生前的几个小时究竟发生了什么，为什么会发生这样的事故？随着这些问题的调查，牵涉进许多人：目击者、朋友、警察、医生以及神秘的Jenny——之后证明在Tonio的人生的最后几周内扮演着关键角色的人物。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：“令人震惊，作者Van der Heijden创作了一部对他儿子的感人的悼念。”——Het Parool
“一座爱与折磨的纪念碑，作者van der Heijden为他的儿子谱写了一曲安魂曲。Tonio是人类精神的最有力的体现，与死亡和空虚形成鲜明对比。”——Die Welt
“有关 Van der Heijden 用慈祥、焦虑的目光看着儿子最后一次骑自行车以及他无力阻止噩梦的发生的描述，是最棒的，任何作者都无法写出这种感觉。很晦涩，但却很真实”——De Groene Amsterdammer
“这是他写过的最感人的一本书。”——Haarlems Dagblad
“记录儿子的死亡既变成一种责任，也体现出悲痛中的挣扎。van der Heijden发现无法下笔。这两种情感交织在一起。”——《澳洲周末》
’Astonishing. Van der Heijden has produced a moving, virtuoso memorial to his son.’ Het Parool ’Raw; hard, but beautiful.’ De Standard ’A monument to love and suffering: the author A.F.Th. van der Heijden has written a requiem for his son. Tonio is one of the most powerful, compelling expressions of the human spirit in the face of its opposite, death and the void.’ Die Welt ’The pages on which Van der Heijden watches his son’s last cycle ride with a loving, anxious gaze, and his powerless attempts to protect him from that ugly death, are among the most beautiful things that anyone could write. It’s obscene, but true.’ De Groene Amsterdammer ’The most touching book he has ever written, a tribute to his son, a quest for the fragile essence of parenthood.’ Haarlems Dagblad ’Recording the death [of his son] becomes both a duty to Tonio and part of the struggle of grieving, and van der Heijden finds he cannot not write about it ... these two strands are woven together skilfully, and beautifully at times.’ -- Weekend Australian Weekend Australian
About the Author/作者介绍： ADRI VAN DER HEIJDEN 是荷兰最伟大、也是获奖最多的作家之一。他的作品主要包含两个故事：《Toothless Time》和《Homo Duplex》。《托尼奥》拿下了荷兰三个最具影响力的文学大奖，也成为荷兰和德国的一部主要畅销作品。本书标志着英语版本的首度问世。
ADRI VAN DER HEIJDEN is one of Holland’s greatest and most highly awarded authors. His oeuvre consists mainly of two sagas: The Toothless Time and Homo Duplex. Tonio won three of Holland’s most prestigious literary awards: the Constantijn Huygens Prize, the 2012 Libris Literature Prize, and the 2012 NS Reader’s Award for the Best Book of the Year. It has been a major bestseller in Holland and in Germany, and this edition marks its first appearance in English.
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