NOT YET: A MEMOIR OF LIVING AND ALMOST DYING

Book ID/图书代码： 12760012B53719

English Summary/英文概要： Framed by Wayson Choy’s two brushes with death, Not Yet is an intimate and insightful study of one man’s reasons for living.

In 2001, Wayson Choy suffered a combined asthma-heart attack. As he lay in his hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, his days punctuated by the beeps of the machines that were keeping him alive, Choy heard the voices of his ancestors warning him that without a wife, he would one day die alone. And yet through his ordeal Choy was never alone; men and women, young and old, from all cultures and ethnicities, stayed by Choy’s side until he was well. When his heart failed him a second time, four years later, it was the strength of his bonds with these people, forged through countless acts of kindness, that pulled Choy back to his life.

Not Yet is a passionate, sensitive, and beautiful exploration of the importance of family, which in Choy’s case is constituted not through blood but through love. It is also a quiet manifesto for embracing life, not blind to our mortality, but knowing how lucky we are for each day that comes.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《时辰未到》以维森•乔伊两度与死亡擦肩而过的经历作为背景，仔细的思考并深入的研究了人活下去的原因。

2001年，维森•乔伊哮喘发作并引发了心脏病，危在旦夕的他躺在病床之上，惟一的印象便是昏迷中时不时抽离的意识与病房中维持生命的仪器规则的嘟嘟声。隐约中的维森仿若听见了来自远古祖先们的声音，他们向他呢喃：倘若没有妻子，你终将孤独的离开这个世界。尽管历尽磨难，乔伊却从未感到过孤独，因为不论男女老少，不论文化与种族，他们都陪伴在乔伊身边直到他的痊愈。而多年后，当又一次心脏病突发时，正是乔伊多年来的善举为他所赢来的那些朋友们陪在他的身边，成为了支撑他渡过难关的最大力量来源。

《时辰未到》，一场充满了激情，美以及情感的探寻之旅，揭示了家庭的重要。对乔伊而言，他的人生是被爱填满的。本书教会你安静的拥抱生活，永生只是一场虚无，感恩全新的每一天或许才是生命的真谛。(DC)

Awards/获奖情况："A story of heroic transcendence of uncertainty." — The Globe and Mail

About the Author/作者介绍： 维森•乔伊的首部小说《玉牡丹》曾26周蝉联《全球邮报》畅销书榜，并在1996年末全国最佳畅销小说中名列第六，同年与玛格丽特•阿特伍德共同荣获延龄草奖，并获得温哥华图书奖。1997年起，《玉牡丹》被作为短篇小说选编25余次。维森•乔伊现居多伦多。

Wayson Choy’s first novel, The Jade Peony, spent 26 weeks on The Globe and Mail’s bestseller list and placed number six on its 1996 Year-End National Bestseller List for fiction. It shared the Trillium Award that year with Margaret Atwood and won the Vancouver Book Award. Begun as a short story in 1977, The Jade Peony went on to be anthologized more than 25 times. Wayson Choy lives in Toronto.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：RIGHTS SOLD Canada: Doubleday, 2009 Australia & New Zealand: Scribe Publications Croatia: Naklada Ljevak French Canada: Les Editions XYZ, 2012

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