THE LIMIT (OLD TITLE: THE BORDER)

Book ID/图书代码： 10050012B57219

English Summary/英文概要： How far would you go for the one you love?

It’s a sweltering summer’s day, and Anja Aropalo is on her way home with two errands in mind: first, to water the roses, and then to commit suicide. She is slowly losing her husband to Alzheimer’s disease, and she has made him a terrible promise — one she’s not sure she can keep.

For Anja’s niece, Mari, death is a teenage fantasy of grieving family and eternal beauty, an escape from the dullness of her life. But the adventure she longs for seems to come within reach when she begins a relationship with her charismatic teacher, Julian. His six-year-old daughter, Anni, is a witness to their blossoming affair, observing the lies and truths of those around her as she tries to discover what it is to be an adult.

The Limit draws together these four people, all struggling to work out where their boundaries lie. In vivid, incandescent prose, Riikka Pulkkinen reveals how our limits can show us who we really are.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 你可以为心爱的人付出多少？

这是个闷热的盛夏午后，Anja Aropalo在回家的路上，心里只想着两件事，首先先浇玫瑰花，随后，自杀。因为丈夫患了艾尔兹海默症，渐渐也记不得自己了，Anja和丈夫许了个可怕的诺言，她却也不知道能否遵守。

而Anja的侄女，马瑞，死亡对她来说就像是一场美梦，可以摆脱破碎的家庭，追求永久的美丽，逃离沉闷的生活。她长久追求的一场冒险终于随着她与自己老师，朱利安之间开展的一场关系而开始了。而朱利安6岁的女儿，安妮见证了这段感情的开展，辨别着成人世界的真假，以及该如何成为一个成人。

《底线》描写了这四个人的人生，探讨着人性的底线。Riikka Pulkkinen告诉我们，每个人的底线揭示了真实的自己。（XAT）

Awards/获奖情况：获奖情况：
2007年凯莱奖
2007年莱利.海威瑟瑞文学奖
2006年入围赫尔辛基新闻报文学奖
2006年提名最佳处女作

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英国，丹麦，德国，意大利，挪威，瑞典

About the Author/作者介绍： RIIKKA PULKKINEN出生于1980年，于赫尔辛基大学研究文学和哲学。她是《事实》的作者，已在17个国家出版，并入围了2010年度芬兰文学奖。《底线》作为RIIKKA的处女作，在芬兰和荷兰成为畅销书籍，并获得了凯莱奖和莱利.海威瑟瑞文学奖。

RIIKKA PULKKINEN was born in 1980 and studied literature and philosophy at the University of Helsinki. She is the author of True, which was published in 17 countries and shortlisted for the Finlandia Prize for Literature 2010. The Limit, her debut novel, was a bestseller in Finland and the Netherlands, and won the Kaarle and Laila Hirvisaari prizes.

Format:电子手稿

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