BEYOND THE HIGH BLUE AIR

Book ID/图书代码： 00200016B90145

English Summary/英文概要： Aged just 29, gifted, athletic and loved, Lu Spinney’s son Miles was on the brink of a brilliant future. Then a snowboarding accident changed everything. He suffered a devastating head injury and was left in a coma.

With unflinching honesty, Lu has written a passionate, urgent account of the years following Miles’s accident, revealing his existence imprisoned in a limbo of fluctuating consciousness, at times agonizingly aware of his predicament. Beyond the High Blue Air explores the nature of self when all means of communication are lost, the anguish of witnessing Miles’s suffering and the slow-dawning recognition by his family that, though Miles had been prevented from dying, he had not been brought back to a meaningful life. Beyond the High Blue Air is a bold, raw, courageous memoir: a testament to the fierce power of maternal love.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 29岁，天赋异禀，充满运动细胞，身边充满了关爱…… Lu Spinney的儿子Miles前程似锦。然而，一场单板滑雪意外却改变了一切……Miles受到严重的脑部撞击，陷入昏迷。

带着坚定、诚实的意志，Lu将Miles出事后的几年撰写成文，揭示了Miles这几年犹如地狱般的境遇：意识波动，时而清醒，能够感知到自身所处的困境。《蓝天外的世界》探索了失去一切交流方式后的自我本性，表达了目睹Mile遭遇的心酸悲痛，以及其家庭逐步意识到这一残忍的事实：尽管Miles还活着，但已经无法回到那个充满意义的生活了。《蓝天外的世界》是一部大胆的、朴实的、励志的回忆录：证明了母爱的伟大！(LYR)

Awards/获奖情况：Lu Spinney讲述了一场悲剧。环境十分独特，但她所表达的感受——不信、希望、愤怒和气馁——却是普遍的。同时，她提出的伦理问题也十分关键。最重要的是，这本书语言优美。——Blake Morrison

如果没有意识到你所爱的人也都濒临悬崖峭壁，你是无法读懂这本生动、心碎而又优美的回忆录的，书中记载了一个母亲失去孩子后的种种…… Lu Spinney将这种感受描述的淋漓尽致。——Francis Spufford

本书文学造诣很高，读书的过程也是一种感受的过程，感受同情，痛苦，以及对作者的敬仰——John Sutherland

本书最为动人和非凡的地方在于，作者Spinney通过儿子的内心剖析了人物的感受，十分感人，极力推荐。

Lu Spinney has a tragic story to tell. The circumstances are unique. But what she expresses - disbelief, hope, anger, dismay - is universal. And the ethical questions she raises are vitally important. Most important, she writes beautifully. --Blake Morrison

Impossible to read this eloquent, heart-breakingly well-written record of a mother’s loss without realising that the people you love are all also standing on the precipice edge Lu Spinney describes so well. --Francis Spufford

This book is a work of the highest literary skill and heroic courage born out of what for most would be unendurable, and wholly silencing, maternal pain. To read it is to feel, sympathetically, both that pain and admiration for the woman who has written so eloquently through it. --John Sutherland

Beautifully written... What is striking and remarkable about this is how movingly Spinney manages to get insider her son’s mind... Highly recommended

About the Author/作者介绍： Lu Spinney 在开普敦出生，在德拉肯斯堡山脉的农场长大。大学毕业后，她离开南非，前往尼斯和巴黎求学，之后在伦敦定居。现在她与自己另外的三个孩子和两个继女住得很近。她写了这本回忆录，希望孙子孙女们能了解Miles的故事。

Lu Spinney was born in Cape Town and grew up on a farm in Natal near the Drakensberg mountains. After university, she left South Africa to study in Nice and Paris, before settling in London. She lives very near her three remaining children and two stepdaughters. She has written this book so that her grandchildren can know Miles.

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