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The Art of Losing   作者：Rebecca Connell   出版日期：2011 / 04 / 29   出版社：HarperCollins   ISBN : 9780007319985   原價：NT 378 元   售價：NT 303 元

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An exceptionally mature and tautly written first novel reminiscent of Josephine Hart's Damage. Haunted by childhood loss, 23-year-old Louise takes on her late mother's name and sets out to find Nicholas, the man she has always held responsible for her death. Now a middle-aged lecturer, husband and father, Nicholas has nevertheless been unable to shake off the events of his past, when he and Louise's mother, Lydia, had a clandestine, destructive and ultimately tragic affair. As Louise infiltrates his life and the lives of his family, she forms close and intimate relationships with both his son and his wife, but her true identity remains unknown to Nicholas himself. Tensions grow and outward appearances begin to crack, as Louise and Nicholas both discover painful truths about their own lives, each other, and the woman they both loved. Told alternately from the perspectives of Louise and Nicholas, and moving between the past and the present, The Art of Losing is a stunning debut novel that shows how love, desire and loss can send out more complicated echoes across our lives than we can ever imagine.

揮之不去的童年時代所留下的陰影促使二十三歲的路易絲決定尋找尼古拉斯，她一直認為是他害死了自己的母親。 尼古拉斯現已步入中年，在一所大學任教，有兒有妻。時至今日，他也無法忘懷自己與路易絲的母親莉蒂亞之間發生的一段不為人知、害人害己，並最終釀成悲劇的婚外情。 在進入他及其家人的生活之後，路易絲與他的兒子及妻子建立了良好的關係。當然，她並沒有告訴他自己的真實身份。 當兩人發覺真相時，緊張一步步升級，外表開始支離破碎。本書分別從路易絲與尼古拉斯的角度講述了過去與現在，向讀者展示了愛情、欲望。