“This is a beautiful love story, and an extraordinary story of loss. Say Her Name has a forensic honesty, a way of treating each detail, each moment, each emotion, with detailed and exact care. It also has a way of holding the reader, of moving between Brooklyn and Mexico City, capturing the essence of two worlds, capturing the essence of two people who were lucky enough to fall in love.”—Colm Toibin
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In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura’s death by her family and blaming himself, wanted to die, too. Instead, he wrote Say Her Name, a novel chronicling his great love and unspeakable loss, tracking the stages of grief when pure love gives way to bottomless pain.
Suddenly a widower, Goldman collects everything he can about his wife, hungry to keep Aura alive with every memory. From her childhood and university days in Mexico City with her fiercely devoted mother to her studies at Columbia University, through their newlywed years in New York City and travels to Mexico and Europe—and always through the prism of her gifted writings—Goldman seeks her essence and grieves her loss. Humor leavens the pain as he lives through the madness of grief and creates a living portrait of a love as joyous as it is deep and profound.
Say Her Name is a love story, a bold inquiry into destiny and accountability, and a tribute to Aura, who she was and who she would've been.
Francisco Goldman (born 1954) is an American novelist, journalist, and Allen K. Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Trinity College. He is workshop director at Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI), the journalism school for Latin-America created by Gabriel García Márquez .
Goldman is also known as Francisco Goldman Molina, "Frank" and "Paco".
弗朗西斯科·高德曼的《念及她名》满书都是对至爱奥拉的追念,往事最堪伤,有着林觉民《与妻书》洞然悲伤,感人不已。柔情絮语中是眷恋在回忆的梦境中不可自拔。高德曼跌入回忆,无处不伤心,知道已经错过了很多,知道自己还是无奈,而且,他也知道他们和他一样无奈。这是多么...
评分《天下无双》的结尾有一句台词印象深刻:“原来尘世间有很多烦恼是很容易解决的,有些事只要你肯反过来看,你会有另外一番光景,我终于明白,静花水月是什么意思,其实情之所至,应该你中有我,我中有你,谁是男谁是女,又有什么关系”,然而达到这个境界,说明这是一个爱情的...
评分喜欢看故事情节的我其实一开始并不喜欢这本书:什么嘛,女主都死了有啥好看的,直到我看到一句话。 在书的第一节,女主生前曾说过:我结婚可不是为了一个人吃午饭,我结婚可不是为了一个人过日子。第二节中,作者忆起妻子,想着自己在厨房里看着妻子坐在门外防火梯上的椅子上看...
评分弗朗西斯科·高德曼的《念及她名》满书都是对至爱奥拉的追念,往事最堪伤,有着林觉民《与妻书》洞然悲伤,感人不已。柔情絮语中是眷恋在回忆的梦境中不可自拔。高德曼跌入回忆,无处不伤心,知道已经错过了很多,知道自己还是无奈,而且,他也知道他们和他一样无奈。这是多么...
评分这本书,感觉就像身前端坐着一位能工巧匠,正在精心雕琢一块汉白玉的浮雕,耐心、细致而又充满感情,下刀看似随心所欲跟着感觉而走,偏偏技艺精湛分毫毕现。最后凸显出的事一副栩栩如生的女孩肖像——倔强而脆弱、坚强而敏感、渴望独立却又没有安全感,随之出现的还有作者那种...
I was intrigued by the sincerity of the author's love story at first and a little disgust by his subtle complaining toward his mother-in-law. He may have a problem with her, but hey, you really have to attack a childless single mom in your book and make her infamous in everyone's mind read this book? The author obiviously don't have a big heart.
评分I was intrigued by the sincerity of the author's love story at first and a little disgust by his subtle complaining toward his mother-in-law. He may have a problem with her, but hey, you really have to attack a childless single mom in your book and make her infamous in everyone's mind read this book? The author obiviously don't have a big heart.
评分这种琐碎深情的文总是让人昏昏欲睡啊。。。
评分未亡人把过去所有的一切琐碎都展现给大家看,读完却又觉得是那么深情。
评分I like the final chapters better.
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