The lovely bones-可爱的骨头-苏西的世界

作者：Alice Sebold

书名：The lovely bones《可爱的骨头》或《苏西的世界》

中文简介：《苏西的世界》（英语：The Lovely Bones）是2002年小说，作者为美国作家艾莉丝·希柏德。故事讲述一名年轻女孩苏西，放学后在玉米田遭到谋杀，以苏西为第一人称观点，从天堂观看他的家人与朋友，在她遇害后往后骤变的生活，至最后走出阴霾面对苏西去世的事实。小说得到相当良好的社会评价，成为当年的畅销书籍之一。

英文简介：The Lovely Bones is the story of a family devastated by a gruesome murder -- a murder recounted by the teenage victim. Upsetting, you say? Remarkably, first-time novelist Alice Sebold takes this difficult material and delivers a compelling and accomplished exploration of a fractured family's need for peace and closure.

The details of the crime are laid out in the first few pages: from her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by the murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school. Lured into an underground hiding place, she was raped and killed. But what the reader knows, her family does not. Anxiously, we keep vigil with Susie, aching for her grieving family, desperate for the killer to be found and punished.

Sebold creates a heaven that's calm and comforting, a place whose residents can have whatever they enjoyed when they were alive -- and then some. But Susie isn't ready to release her hold on life just yet, and she intensely watches her family and friends as they struggle to cope with a reality in which she is no longer a part. To her great credit, Sebold has shaped one of the most loving and sympathetic fathers in contemporary literature.