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The Time Traveler's Wife (Paperback) (平装)
by Audrey Niffenegger
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Love story, Time travel, fiction |
| Market price: ¥ 158.00
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¥ 148.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
Audrey Niffenegger's novel is a vivid exploration of love that can survive anything. |
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Chicago Tribune (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-23 00:00>
"[A] time-travel love story par excellence. . . . [A] soaring celebration of thhe victory of love over time."
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People (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-23 00:00>
"A powerfully original love story." |
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The Sun Times (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-23 00:00>
This is a seamless, soaring love story. As the last pages of this 500-page novel loomed closer, I felt all of the wonderful emotions of having read an unabashed, brilliantly written love story.The Time Traveller's Wife is not a Christmas story, but it is the perfect read for the holiday. Like the emotions of the season it will leave you laughing, crying, and babbling incoherently to your family and friends who will, do doubt, attempt to steal the book away when you aren't looking. Be warned. Buy that special someone their own copy now.
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The National Post (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-23 00:00>
[An] oddly compelling and original formulation. This is Niffenegger's first novel, yet it is remarkably free of many of the common pitfalls of a freshman effort. Niffenegger keeps her readers' attention with a faultless ear for dialogue and with the freshness of her premise. Her touch for comedy is assured, and acts to leaven more sober aspects of the novel.
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Blake Petit (MSL quote), Ama, Louisiana United States
<2007-01-23 00:00>
Niffenegger has crafted a unique love story - the book chronicles virtually the entire lives of Henry DeTamble and his wife, Clare, but cannot chronicle events in any typical order, as events happened in a different sequence for each of them. Henry suffers from an odd disorder, one that wrenches from the here and now and transports him through time. Although the episodes of time-travel seem to be triggered (sometimes) by stress or outside stimuli and send him to significant points in his own life or the lives of those close to him, there's no control over the tine traveling and little rhyme or reason to it.
During his travels, though, he winds up visiting his wife numerous times during her childhood, long before she ever meets him. As a result, she grows up with a man out of time who knows everything about her future. The twist is, when she meets him in the present, he is younger than any version she's yet encountered - now SHE is the one who knows about HIS future.
Niffenegger wisely chooses to switch back and forth between the viewpoints of the two characters, which makes much of the book an exercise in puzzle-solving - you see a scene from Clare's viewpoint at age 13, for instance, but you don't grasp the significance for another 400 pages when you see it from Henry's viewpoint when he's 42 (and again when he's 43). You see two people who are destined for each other, but each has to be convinced of it at different points in their lives.
At heart, this is a love story. Niffenegger brushes aside any of the usual discussions of a time-travel story (time paradoxes, changing the future, etc.), by making the simple declaration that Henry has learned, though his travels, that changing the future is impossible - things always happen the way they're supposed to. This leaves her free to explore the characterization - how being wrenched through time has shaped Henry, and what sort of woman Clare must be to love someone like him. These are two people of considerable strength, and it takes everything they have just to have a normal life. Things like going to work, spending a Christmas holiday meeting your loved one's family for the first time, and trying to conceive a child become incredible ordeals. Choosing which people to trust with your secret (those that won't think you're out of your mind) is a remarkably important decision - and often that decision is taken out of your hands.
This is a story about life - an extraordinary life, to be certain - but life nonetheless. It's a beautiful, sad book, one that leaves you drained, but wholly satisfied. This really is one of the most remarkable books I've read in a very long time.
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