別相信任何人
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今天醒來,她翻開日記,第一頁只寫著:別相信班恩。
每一天醒來,克莉絲汀都身處一個陌生的房間,身旁躺著一個不認識的男人。
當她面對鏡子,只看見一張陌生的臉,比她所知的自己老了20歲。接著,男人會耐心說明:我是妳丈夫班恩,妳今年47歲,20年前遭遇嚴重車禍,從此記憶受損。
每一天醒來,克莉絲汀就像懵懂的孩子,關於她世界裡的一切,全仰賴班恩告知。不過每一天,她也會接到陌生的奈許醫師來電,要她到衣櫥後方找出日記。原來,她在睡前會寫下今天的事作為「備忘錄」,提醒明天失憶的自己。
就這樣,克莉絲汀藉著日記的累積,一天天重建了自己的歷史,但其中細節漸漸和班恩、奈許醫師的說法產生矛盾。究竟哪一個版本可以信任?
Every day Christine wakes up
not knowing where she is. Her memories disappear every time she falls asleep.
Her husband, Ben, is a stranger to her, and he's obligated to explain their life
together on a daily basis--all the result of a mysterious accident that made
Christine an amnesiac. With the encouragement of her doctor, Christine starts a
journal to help jog her memory every day.
One morning, she opens it and sees that she's written
three unexpected and terrifying words: "Don't trust Ben." Suddenly everything
her husband has told her falls under suspicion. What kind of accident caused her
condition? Who can she trust? Why is Ben lying to her? And, for the reader: Can
Christine’s story be trusted?
At the heart of S. J. Watson's
Before I Go To Sleep is the petrifying question: How can anyone function when
they can't even trust themselves? Suspenseful from start to finish, the strength
of Watson's writing allows Before I Go to Sleep to transcend the basic premise
and present profound questions about memory and identity. One of the best debut
literary thrillers in recent years, Before I Go to Sleep deserves to be one of
the major blockbusters of the summer. --Miriam Landis --This text refers to the
Kindle Edition edition.
S. J. 華森
生於英國中部,居於倫敦。於伯明罕大學物理學系畢業後,曾任職於倫敦數所醫院的聽力醫學部門,並擔任英國國民保健服務計畫部門副主任。華森經常利用下班後的時間創作,2009年申請參加英國老牌出版社費伯(Faber
&
Faber)舉辦的寫作培訓班,獲選為第一屆學員,其間被文學經紀人發掘。處女作《別相信任何人》正是他在寫作班完成的作品,出版後聲勢一鳴驚人,不僅獲得英美各大書店選書推薦,更售出42國版權,成為文壇深受矚目的新銳作家,《週日泰唔士報》直指:「明天醒來,請記得
S. J. 華森這個名字。」驚悚小說天王李查德也大膽預言:「我們可能正目睹一位名家的誕生!」
《別相信任何人》出版以來獲獎不斷,全球銷量已突破4百萬冊,在台灣登上博客來、金石堂、誠品書店翻譯小說年度總冠軍,更締造了台北市立圖書館預約借閱人次破千,最長需等待超過三萬天的驚人紀錄;由名導雷利‧史考特製作公司籌拍、妮可‧基嫚與柯林‧佛斯主演的改編電影在2014下半年席捲全球。
S. J. Watson was born in the
Midlands and lives in London. His first novel was the award-winning Before I Go
to Sleep, which has sold over four million copies in more than forty languages
around the world. It was recently adapted into a major motion picture starring
Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, and Mark Strong.