Sharma’s austere but moving novel tells the semi-autobiographical story of a family that immigrates from India to Queens, and has just begun to build a new life when the elder son suffers severe brain damage in a swimming pool accident. Deeply unnerving and gorgeously tender, the book chronicles how grief renders the parents unable to cherish and raise their other son; love, it suggests, becomes warped and jagged and even seemingly vanishes in the midst of mourning.
沙玛的这部小说朴实而感人，是一个半自传性质的故事，讲述了一个印度家庭刚移居纽约皇后区，开始建立新生活不久，长子便由于泳池事故患上严重的脑损伤。本书令人深深不安而又极为温柔，讲述了悲伤如何令父母无法去珍惜和抚养另一个儿子的故事；它令人想到，在悲哀的浓雾之中，爱也会变得粗糙扭曲，甚至看似消失。 来源:可可英语 //m.moreplr.com/read/201412/348761.shtml