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Book ID/图书代码： 11701216B92028
English Summary/英文概要： In August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inop-erable lung cancer and given ‘two or three years’ to live.
She didn’t know how to react. All responses felt script-ed, laden with cliché. Being a writer, she decided to write about it (grappling with the unoriginality even of this), and also to tell a story she has not yet told: that of being
taken in, aged fifteen, by the author Doris Lessing, and the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship.
In September 2014 Jenny Diski began writing in the London Review of Books, describing her experience of living with terminal cancer, examining her life and history with Doris Lessing: the fairy-tale rescue from ‘the bin’ as a teenager, the difficulties of being absorbed into an unfamiliar family and the influence this had on her. Swooping from one memory to the next - alighting on the hysterical battlefield of her parental home, her expulsion from school, stacking shelves in Banbury and the drug-taking twenty-something in and out of psychi-atric hospitals, Diski paints a portrait of two extraordi-nary writers - Lessing and herself.
From one of our most original voices comes a book like no other: a cerebral, witty, dazzlingly candid masterpiece about an uneasy relationship; about memory and writ-ing, ingratitude and anger; about living with illness and facing death.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 2014年8月，Jenny Diski被确诊为已无法进行手术治疗的肺癌，医生认为她还有“两到三年可活”。她不知该如何反应。无论说什么都听起来好像陈词滥调。作为一个作家，她决定通过写作讲述她还没有来得及讲的故事：15岁的时候她如何被作家Doris Lessing收养以及此后的五十年里他们之间复杂的关系。
2014年9月，Jenny Diski开始在《伦敦书评》杂志上刊登作为一个晚期癌症患者的生活记录，她审视自己的生活和与Doris Lessing的过往：作为一个少女童话般地被从“垃圾堆”里拯救出来，融入一个陌生家庭的种种困难，以及这些过往对她的人生产生的影响。记忆源源不断地化作文字：教养院的纷争，被学校开除，在Banbury做苦力，青春年华时吸毒和进出精神病院，Diski描绘了两个杰出作家的生活——Lessing和她自己。
这本书是独一无二的：冷静，睿智，率真，描写了一段艰难的关系，描述了记忆和写作，忘恩负义和愤怒，还有和疾病共生以及如何面对死亡。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：我今年读过的书里最喜欢的一本。（Blake Morrison）
自我曝光的作品，却充满冷静和公正，写得很棒。既不是说教，也没有过分情绪化。（《纽约时报》）
“My favourite reading this year”
Blake Morrison
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A marvel of steady and dispassionate self-revela-tion ... Bracingly devoid of sententiousness, senti-mentality or any kind of spiritual urge or twitch’ New York Times
About the Author/作者介绍： Jenny Diski于1947年出生在伦敦。她著有十部小说，四本旅行记录和回忆录，两册散文集，还有一本短篇故事集。她的新闻作品曾刊登在包括《星期日邮报》、《观察者》等刊物上。
Jenny Diski was born in 1947 in London. She is the au-thor of ten novels, four books of travel and memoir, two volumes of essays and a collection of short stories.
Her journalism has appeared in the Mail on Sunday, the Observer and the London Review of Books, amongst
other publications.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Swedish rights sold ;
Italian rights sold
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