WEST: A JOURNEY INTO THE MEANING OF LOSS

Book ID/图书代码： 12844010B37120

English Summary/英文概要： ’I am alone with my dead, and the grieving can begin. I am alone with my dead in a place of the dead, and I do not want to live. This is why I have come here - to be alone; to be in a place of the dead; to be at peace and undisturbed with my own dead.’ After the sudden, separate, deaths of his wife and son, Jim Perrin fled his native Wales for Ireland and to the furthest point of Connemara, to an ancient burial ground on an island off its westernmost peninsula. A journey embarked upon haphazardly, instinctively, led him solitary and at twilight to a remote beach strewn with human bones. Consumed by the presence of death, he had come to a place of the dead, had felt the urge to travel West and wondered why? What was leading him to settle into this place and pass here the coming hours of dark, under the hollow gaze of ancient skulls? West is his extraordinary attempt to understand. West tells the story of Jim Perrin’s own life against the lives and deaths of his cherished wife and son, and the landscapes through which they travelled together. It is a powerful and passionate confrontation with loss, a seeking-to-understand the wilderness within, a meditation on transience, a complex, sensual and moving love-story and a celebration of the beauty and redemptive power of wild nature. In this book, Perrin has written a stunning, life-affirming evocation of the grief that can consume us all and the journey entailed in accepting and understanding devastating personal loss.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 「我心已死，悲傷自此開始將我吞噬；置身於死寂之地，生命於我亦變得無所價值。我來到此處的唯一目的 - 僅僅是為了找尋孤單；選擇一個沒有生氣的地方；去平靜擁抱我的死亡。」
作者吉姆.佩蘭在痛失妻兒之後，便決定選擇了遠走高飛。離開祖國威爾士之後，他一路來到了愛爾蘭康尼馬拉的北端，座落於整座島嶼之西側，那裏靜靜沉睡著一處古老的墳場。這是一段隨性、隨意的旅程，一路追尋著孤獨的吉姆，終於在傍晚時分來到那片散落著枯骨的沙灘。沉浸在死亡的氛圍之中，他來到了埋骨之地，有一種強烈的感情在敦促著他一路西行，並不斷質問著自己的動機。究竟是怎樣的念頭驅使著他涉足此處，選擇在漆黑的夜幕之中去置身于這片黃骨埋沙之地？「西行」一書，正是講述了圍繞著生命與死亡，吉姆內心當中所展開的摸索與追尋。文中我們將看到吉姆一家當年的遊記，以及他如何面對隨後妻兒的離世之殤。
本書不僅直面了生命的逝去、命運的無常以及人生的短暫；同時還為我們帶來了一段感人至深的愛情故事，更是對於大自然所擁有的足以平復人心的力量進行了完美的謳歌。
本書作者吉姆.佩蘭，是英國在遊記、自然以及戶外類作品方面極富盛名的作家之一，其當年還曾一度是國內名噪一時的攀岩好手。讀者可以經常在「每日電訊報」、「衛報」、「登山者」以及「國家旅遊」等知名媒體上看到他的文章。吉姆獲獎眾多，期間於2009年他曾被選為當年蘇格蘭最佳專欄作家。迄今他筆下共著有十二部作品。(ANDY)

Awards/获奖情况：’A beautiful, powerful and extraordinary book, full of extremes of nature and experience. WEST is an invigorating and frequently joyous reflection of what it feels like to be alive.’ -- Tristan Gooley, author of THE NATURAL NAVIGATOR
’In this astonishing book, as much factual novel or epic prose poem as anything else, Jim Perrin takes us on a celebratory, often hilarious, yet profoundly moving, journey through an intricate weave of lives lived, loved and lost. In recalling his wife and son, he conjugates love, pride and pain into an eloquent reflection on grief and mortality.’--Aonghas MacNeacail

About the Author/作者介绍： Jim Perrin is one of Britain’s most highly regarded writers on travel, nature and the outdoors and in his youth was one of the country’s most notable rock-climbers. He is a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Climber and The Great Outdoors. Among many other awards he has twice won the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature, and was voted Scottish Columnist of the Year 2009. He has written twelve books to date, including Menlove, The Villain: A LIfe of Don Whillans, River Map, The Climbing Essays and Travels with The Flea. He is a Fellow of the Welsh Academy, an Honorary Fellow of Bangor University, and the Guardian’s Country Diarist for Wales.

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