The Memory Keeper's Daughter [平装]

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一个善意的谎言，一个勇敢的抉择，两条不同的人生道路。
以为生命的圆应该完美无暇，却错过了放大镜下缺角所折射出来的美丽光芒——
一个谎言，从此让两个家庭变了样，各自走上不同的道路。
疗伤的小说，安慰每一个千疮百孔的心灵。
难过的人看完，会觉得世界仍是美好的。
伤心的人看过，会觉得明天依旧有希望。

和《可爱的骨头》一样美丽，只是更加恢宏
与《追风筝的人》一样残忍，只是更加细腻
继《追风筝的人》后轰动全美，另一个平装本销售奇迹的出版现象

每个人都会为书中那感人肺腑的情怀而动容。故事中的人物像魔咒一样紧紧牵引着你，让你看到一段建立在童话般爱情基础上的婚姻如何被最世俗的处世哲学撕成碎片。谎言、秘密、恐惧、悲哀，这本美丽的小说里全都有了。
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谎言的代价是什么？

一个转瞬间的起心动念，一个出于善意的生死欺瞒，改变了两个家庭的命运。故事从一个大风雪的夜晚开始。　

医生戴维亲手为妻子接生，发现双胞胎中的女婴患有唐氏症。不忍面对女儿为智障的现实，他让护士将女儿送走，并对妻子诺拉谎称她已经夭折。善意的欺骗竟成了一家人的梦魇……

二十五年间，诺拉不能承受丧女之痛，开始出走、酗酒，而戴维终日被满心愧疚纠缠却无法言说，只能带着一架“记忆守护者”牌相机去寻找女婴、女孩、少女的影子，仿佛要为他那不存在的女儿留下成长的记录。

一直暗恋戴维的护士卡罗琳并没有送走女孩，她搬到另一个城市隐姓埋名，以一己之力对抗社会的不公，用力背起人生苦难，给女儿一个温暖的家……

多年之后，戴维和卡罗琳再次相遇，她对他说：“你逃过了很多心痛，但你也错过了无数的喜悦。”

Book Description
Award-winning writer Kim Edwards’s The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a brilliantly crafted family drama that explores every mother’s silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you?

On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down’s syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by David Henry’s fateful decision that long-ago winter night.

A rich and deeply moving page-turner, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter captures the way life takes unexpected turns and how the mysterious ties that hold a family together help us survive the heartache that occurs when long-buried secrets burst into the open. It is an astonishing tale of redemptive love.

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From Publishers Weekly
Edwards's assured but schematic debut novel (after her collection, The Secrets of a Fire King) hinges on the birth of fraternal twins, a healthy boy and a girl with Down syndrome, resulting in the father's disavowal of his newborn daughter. A snowstorm immobilizes Lexington, Ky., in 1964, and when young Norah Henry goes into labor, her husband, orthopedic surgeon Dr. David Henry, must deliver their babies himself, aided only by a nurse. Seeing his daughter's handicap, he instructs the nurse, Caroline Gill, to take her to a home and later tells Norah, who was drugged during labor, that their son Paul's twin died at birth. Instead of institutionalizing Phoebe, Caroline absconds with her to Pittsburgh. David's deception becomes the defining moment of the main characters' lives, and Phoebe's absence corrodes her birth family's core over the course of the next 25 years. David's undetected lie warps his marriage; he grapples with guilt; Norah mourns her lost child; and Paul not only deals with his parents' icy relationship but with his own yearnings for his sister as well. Though the impact of Phoebe's loss makes sense, Edwards's redundant handling of the trope robs it of credibility. This neatly structured story is a little too moist with compassion.
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