Cristina Rivera Garza Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice-莉莉安娜的无敌夏天

1990年夏天，墨西哥城20岁的建筑系学生莉莉安娜·里维拉·加尔萨被她的前男友在公寓里杀害。在这本书中，莉莉安娜的姐姐，也是著名的小说作家和历史学家克里斯蒂娜·里维拉·加尔萨，在纪念妹妹的同时，控诉了男性对女性根深蒂固的仇恨以及“地下和持续的”暴力行为。

故事从里维拉·加尔萨在2019年试图找回一份丢失的警察档案开始，然后扩展到剪报、照片、采访以及莉莉安娜的信件和笔记本——里维拉·加尔萨称之为“随着时间的推移而沉淀的经验层”，以及她有责任进行“沉积”。但这本书还是一次文本在不同叙述风格之间切换的实验，因为作者试图重建导致妹妹死亡的情形，设计一种足以表达家人悲伤的语言，并挽救年轻的记忆。

正如莉莉安娜的笔记所证明的那样，她是一个对生活充满渴望的女人：“我是一个探索者。我想尝试新事物；也许更多的痛苦和孤独，但我认为这是值得的。我知道除了这四堵墙之外还有更多的东西；还有这天空，它蓝得令人恼火。”

书名：Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice《莉莉安娜的无敌夏天》

作者：Cristina Rivera Garza

简介：A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murder, from one of Mexico's greatest living writers (Jonathan Lethem).

Can you enjoy yourself while you are in pain? The question, which is not new, arises over and over again during that eternity that is mourning.

In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Liliana's story instead became subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana's case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private, without any hope for justice.

In luminous, poetic prose, Rivera Garza tells a singular yet universally resonant story: that of a spirited, wondrously hopeful young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. It traces the story of her childhood, her early romance with a handsome--but possessive and short-tempered--man, through the exhilarating weeks leading up to that fateful July morning, a summer when Liliana loved, thought, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before.

Using her remarkable talents as a scholar, novelist, and poet, Cristina Rivera Garza returns to Mexico after decades of living in the United States to collect and curate evidence--handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, architectural blueprints--in order to render and understand a life beyond the crime itself. Tracing the full arc of their childhood and adolescence in central Mexico, through the painful and confusing years after Liliana's death, Rivera Garza confronts the trauma of losing her sister, and examines from multiple angles how this tragedy continues to shape who she is--and what she fights for--today.