THE ASSEMBLER OF PARTS
Book ID/图书代码： 02173013B61796
English Summary/英文概要： This stunning debut—like The Lovely Bones—is a child’s story narrated from the afterlife, and an emotional fable about love, forgiveness, and what most makes us human.
From the start of this extraordinary first novel, eight-year-old Jess finds herself in heaven reviewing her short life. She is guided in this by a being she calls the Assembler of Parts, and her task, as she understands it, is to glean her life’s meaning. From birth, it was obvious that she was unlike other children: she was born without thumbs. The Assembler left out other parts too, for she suffers from a syndrome of birth defects that leaves her flawed. But soon it becomes apparent that by her very imperfections she has a unique ability to draw love from—and heal—those around her, from the team of doctors who rally to her care, to the parents who come together over her, to the grandmother whose guilt she assuages, to the family friend whom she helps reconcile with an angry past. With a voice full of wisdom and humor, she tells their stories too. Yet, only when she dies suddenly and her parents are suspected of neglect, unleashing a chain of events beyond her healing, does the meaning of her life come into full focus. And only then does the Assembler’s purpose become clear.
With prose that is rich in emotion—from laughter to tears to outrage to joyful relief—and an eloquence that distills poetry from the language of medicine and the words for ordinary things, Raoul Wientzen has delivered a novel of rare beauty that speaks to subjects as profound as faith, what makes us human, and the value of a life.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 小女孩Jess的人生很不尋常，她的生命只有短短的8年，如今她已置身天堂，卻發現有機會能俯瞰人間回顧自己短暫的一生。彷彿被天使引導來拼湊人生，她的任務是去理解並搜集拼湊生命的意義。
Jess從出生就異於其他孩子，她天生患有身體的缺陷，一出生就沒有拇指。但是，從隨時照顧她的醫生團隊、內疚的父母和奶奶，Jess很快發現不完美的自己卻有獨特的能力來吸引身邊更多人的愛與關懷，甚至自己有力量治癒旁人受傷的心靈。
回到生命最初的起點，重新再走一回，Jess這次以一個充滿智慧和幽默的方式，再次看待自己與家人之間的相處。然而，Jess後來發現自己會突然死去的原因是因為父母涉嫌疏忽照顧使她致死而引發後續一連串的事件，這次她該如何用愛來彌補生命的不完美…
Awards/获奖情况：“Without pulling any punches, The Assembler of Parts and its wise and unforgettable narrator, Jessica Mary Jackson, will teach you that what could be perceived as tragic is in truth a great opportunity for love, acceptance and healing. I loved it!”- Barbara Esstman, author of The Other Anna and Night Ride Home.
About the Author/作者介绍： Raoul Wientzen是美國喬治城大學醫學院畢業，任職超過30年的兒科醫生，目前他也是Rostropovich慈善基金會兒童健康計劃的醫療主任。這本書是他的第一本小說，以情感豐富的文字試圖告訴每一個人去理解生命的意義與價值。Raoul Wientzen, a graduate of both the college and medical school of Georgetown University, is a pediatrician and taught pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases for more than thirty years at Georgetown University Hospital. He is currently the medical director of the Rostropovich Foundation, an NGO that promotes large-scale public health programs for children in the developing world. He and his wife have four children and live in Arlington, Virginia.
Format:GALLEY
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