THE SUICIDE INDEX: PUTTING MY FATHER’S DEATH IN ORDER
Book ID/图书代码： 08B24416
English Summary/英文概要： When you kill yourself, you kill every memory everyone has of you. You’re saying “I’m gone and you can’t even be sure who it is that’s gone, because you never knew me.”
Sixteen years ago, Joan Wickersham’s father shot himself in the head. The father she loved would never have killed himself, and yet he had. His death made a mystery of his entire life. Using an index—that most formal and orderly of structures—Wickersham explores this chaotic and incomprehensible reality. Every bit of family history—marriage, parents, business failures—and every encounter with friends, doctors, and other survivors exposes another facet of elusive truth. Dark, funny, sad, and gripping, at once a philosophical and deeply personal exploration, The Suicide Index is, finally, a daughter’s anguished, loving elegy to her father.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 人會選擇走上絕路的真正原因，大概都是個無法解開的謎團…但至少我們要學會原諒自己，也原諒摯愛之人的軟弱 當你親手結束生命時，也扼殺了與你有關的所有記憶。你透過這樣殘酷的手法告訴大家：「我要走了！你們這輩子永遠無法相信離開的人是誰，因為你們從未真正地認識過我…」
那天是星期五早晨，父親一如往常。早起梳洗、煮咖啡，將咖啡放在母親的床頭。唯一不同的是他走進書房，舉起手槍結束生命，沒有留下任何遺言…
從多久前他就想擺脫這個世界？
作者Joan Wickersham記憶中的父親不可能做出這樣的事。面對父親的不告而別。她不斷反問在父親無助害怕時，為什麼自己沒有及時發現。只能徒留無盡的悲傷與憤怒。經過多年的沉澱，作者努力找出所有的線索，拼湊出父親的死因，在回憶父親的同時試圖撫平心中的傷痛。
選擇走上絕路的真正原因，大概是個無法解開的謎團。至少我們學會原諒自己，也原諒摯愛之人的軟弱。(Tiffany & Iris)
Awards/获奖情况：2008年美國國家圖書獎決選作品
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About the Author/作者介绍： JOAN WICKERSHAM現居美國麻州。擅長短篇小說，包括THE PAPER ANNIVERSARY等作品。她不僅在小說方面有極高的讚譽，以自身的經驗所寫成的THE SUICIDE INDEX更進入2008年美國國家圖書獎非小說類決選。最新作品為短篇小說集THE NEWS FROM SPAIN。
JOAN WICKERSHAM is the author of the novel THE PAPER ANNIVERSARY. Her work has appeared in the Best American Short Stories series. An excerpt from THE SUICIDE INDEX earned her the 2007 Ploughshares Cohen Award for Best Short Story. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Format:HARDCOVER
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
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