Yiyun Li Where Reasons End - 无因无果

李翊云这本小说是一个母亲和她已经死去的儿子的对话。书里母亲和儿子之间隔着阳和阴，生和死，这是无法逾越的距离。《无因无果》是一本臆想的对话小说，儿子的名字是尼克莱，一个非常聪明，任性，有时甚至傲慢的少年，他不断取笑妈妈的英文，挖苦她词汇不丰富，说话带口音，母亲笑着说：哎，那我这几十年也靠着这个英文写作谋生了。儿子的形容词汇丰富，常常一句话里三四个形容词。而作为作家的母亲尽量避免用形容词，而是多用名词，她希望读者自己去用他们认为合适的词汇去形容去判断。整书的内容多是谈论他们对写作的认识，对诗歌的理解，和对人生的态度。其中不可避免地穿插了一些母亲对儿子成长时期的回忆。


书名：Where Reasons End

作者：Yiyun Li

简介：A fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love, "a masterpiece by a master” ( Elizabeth McCracken,   Vanity Fair ).

"Li has converted the messy and devastating stuff of life into a remarkable work of art.”— The Wall Street Journal

WINNER OF THE PEN/JEAN STEIN AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Seghal, The New York Times • NPR • The Guardian • The Paris Review

The narrator of Where Reasons End writes, “ I had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I’m doing it over again, this time by words .”

Yiyun Li meets life’s deepest sorrows as she imagines a conversation between a mother and child in a timeless world. Composed in the months after she lost a child to suicide, Where Reasons End trespasses into the space between life and death as mother and child talk, free from old images and narratives. Deeply moving, these conversations portray the love and complexity of a relationship.

Written with originality, precision, and poise, Where Reasons End is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love.