Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Welcome to Christine’s life.
Christine wakes up every morning in an unfamiliar bed with an unfamiliar man. She looks in the mirror and sees an unfamiliar, middle- aged face. And every morning, the man she has woken up with must explain that he is Ben, he is her husband, she is forty-seven years old, and a terrible accident two decades earlier decimated her ability to form new memories.
But it’s the phone call from a Dr. Nash, a neurologist who claims to be working with Christine without her husband’s knowledge, that directs her to her journal, hidden in the back of her closet. For the past few weeks, Christine has been recording her daily activities—tearful mornings with Ben, sessions with Dr. Nash, flashes of scenes from her former life—and rereading past entries, relearning the facts of her life as retold by the husband she is completely dependent upon. As the entries build up, Christine asks many questions. What was life like before the accident? Why did she and Ben never have a child? What has happened to Christine’s best friend? And what exactly was the horrific accident that caused such a profound loss of memory?
Every day, Christine must begin again the reconstruction of her past. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more un- believable it seems.
Before I Go to Sleep is the astonishing, haunting debut novel from newcomer S J Watson. Likened to a literary mash-up of Memento, Inception and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Before I Go to Sleep will touch everyone who reads it.
Steven "S. J." Watson (born 1971) is an English writer. He debuted in 2011 with the thriller novel Before I Go to Sleep. Rights to publish the book have been sold in 42 different countries around the world and it has gone on to be an international bestseller.
Watson was born in Stourbridge, in the West Midlands. He studied Physics at the University of Birmingham and then moved to London, where he worked in various hospitals and specialized as an audiologist[4] in the diagnosis and treatment of hearing-impaired children. In the evenings and weekends he wrote fiction.
In 2009 Watson was accepted into the first Faber Academy ‘Writing a Novel’ Course, a programme that covers all aspects of the novel-writing process. Before I Go to Sleep is the result.
Now sold in over 30 languages around the world, Before I Go To Sleep has been also been acquired for film by Ridley Scott’s production company, Scott Free, with Rowan Joffe to direct. Filming is scheduled to begin in 2011.
Visit the author online at http://wwwwww.sjwatson-books.com.
如果有天一觉醒来,你发现自己丢失掉全部记忆,不知道自己是谁,不知道身处何处,不知道周围发生什么状况,这是否世界上最可怕的一件事? 不,远还有比这更糟糕的,你发现自己尚且残存一天记忆,但只维持一天,如火花闪烁,睡下后,记忆全部消失,然后,你不得不依靠身边人告诉...
評分一个人若失去了记忆的宝库,失去了过去的人生,失去了回忆的丰富过往,那人生又有什么意义呢?迷失在一片空白而慌乱的记忆荒原里,时而幻境,时而现实,被困在记忆碎片的夹缝里,那是多么恐怖的经验?更恐怖的是每天清晨都是空白记忆的起始点,一切归零重新开始。只能靠一个自...
評分如果有天一觉醒来,你发现自己丢失掉全部记忆,不知道自己是谁,不知道身处何处,不知道周围发生什么状况,这是否世界上最可怕的一件事? 不,远还有比这更糟糕的,你发现自己尚且残存一天记忆,但只维持一天,如火花闪烁,睡下后,记忆全部消失,然后,你不得不依靠身边人告诉...
評分一个人若失去了记忆的宝库,失去了过去的人生,失去了回忆的丰富过往,那人生又有什么意义呢?迷失在一片空白而慌乱的记忆荒原里,时而幻境,时而现实,被困在记忆碎片的夹缝里,那是多么恐怖的经验?更恐怖的是每天清晨都是空白记忆的起始点,一切归零重新开始。只能靠一个自...
讀瞭review,爭取三周內讀完。據說虎頭蛇尾啊。。囧
评分boring,wordy
评分不能再爛 推薦讀shutter island吧
评分who TMD來告訴我...最後的大團員結局是怎麼來的,太突兀瞭
评分看這書時我期待的是主人公搞不清楚哪裏是現實哪裏是想象,因為對生活的記憶全來自自己的日記,最後發現一切不過是平淡生活中臆構的冒險。結果搞瞭半天完全就是個庸俗不堪的懸疑小說。
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