內容簡介
It’s 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She’s in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they’re trying for a baby – and she doesn’t want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.
作者伊麗莎白·吉爾伯特在小時候有個夢想:以為自己長大後會是兒女成群的媽媽。但在30歲以後,她纔發現自己既不想要小孩,也不想要丈夫。108個短篇象徵瞭靈魂探索、自我發現之旅。作者在意大利、印度、印尼三個不同國度之間尋找自己——到意大利品嘗美食,盡享感官的滿足,在世上最好的比薩與美酒的陪伴下,靈魂就此再生。在印度,與瑜伽士的接觸,洗滌瞭她混亂的身心。巴厘島上,她尋得瞭身心的平衡。在這一整年的追尋快樂與虔誠之間的平衡中,她終於發現:“拯救我的人,並非王子,而是我自己操控我,拯救我”。
作者簡介
Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a story collection, Pilgrims (a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award); a novel, Stern Men; and The Last American Man (a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award).
伊莉莎白·吉爾伯特,小說傢、新聞記者、兩度獲得National Magazine Award 深度報導奬,作品The Last American Man 入選美國國傢圖書奬決賽名單及2002年紐約時代年代好書,故事集Pilgrims獲得Paris Review 最佳新人小說等奬項。曾為知名雜誌GQ、Bazaar、The New York Magazine撰稿。 因本書在全美的熱銷,2007年入選TIME官方網站100位最具影響力的人物。
精彩書評
"A writer of incandescent talent"
-- Annie Proulx
"It’s a good read. I can’t get away from it"
-- Britney Spears, Glamour
"If a more likable writer than Gilbert is currently in print, I haven’t found him or her … Gilbert’s prose is fuelled by a mix of intelligence, wit and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible."
-- New York Times
"A witty, honest account of loss and new beginnings, this will be enjoyed by anyone who’s realised “having it all” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be."
-- Easy Living
“很多女性在“成熟”的過程中會忽略瞭自己,希望知識女性能夠通過這本書,找到已經被忘掉的自我。”
——鳳凰衛視財經主播 曾子墨
“我認為,一個女孩會比一個男孩更早,更清晰地接納愛,瞭解愛。卻隻有在長大之後,通過各種方式的靈修瞭解男性世界的寬廣和深刻。在精神世界裏,二者從來是閤二為一的。”
——80後纔女作傢 安意如
“每一個女性都應該看看這本書,相信我。書非常好看,譯得也生動。EAT是在意大利,PRAY在印度,LOVE在印尼。從意大利到巴厘島,由頹廢變快樂,是一本旅行勵誌書。”
——知名作傢 趙趙
前言/序言
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