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《蘇西的世界》(英語:The Lovely Bones)是2002年小說,作者為美國作家艾莉絲·希柏德。故事講述一名年輕女孩蘇西,放學後在玉米田遭到謀殺,以蘇西為第一人稱觀點,從天堂觀看他的家人與朋友,在她遇害後往後驟變的生活,至最後走出陰霾面對蘇西去世的事實。小說得到相當良好的社會評價,成為當年的暢銷書籍之一。
1973年,14歲名叫蘇西沙蒙的女孩,遭到鄰居的姦殺與分屍。死後的日子,蘇西在她想像的私人天堂觀看人間,看她的家人與朋友如何面對他們的信念,有時會對家人的選擇感到生氣與挫折,身為靈魂無法與人類接觸,對事情的發展又無能為力。
《蘇西的世界》英文原名為The Lovely Bones(若直譯就稱作「可愛的骨頭」),是取自小說的結尾前面幾行:
These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections — sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent — that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous lifeless body had been my life.[1]
小說題材源自作者艾莉絲·希柏德的個人經歷,在1981年就讀於紐約雪城大學大一時遭受強暴。先前出版的自傳《Lucky》(中文譯名為《折翼女孩不流淚》),是希柏德大學時期的遭遇與往後的回憶錄,她描述如何改變她的生活,尤其是得知強暴犯的前一位受害者已身亡。之後在街上看見強暴犯,她出面向警方指認,終而逮捕到案,最後定罪且處以最高刑罰。然而在2021年,她承認因指證錯誤,讓非裔美籍男子無辜入獄16年。因非裔男子遭錯誤指認入罪的案例頻傳,此案引起討論。[2]
事過境遷後,希柏德在1990年代初期開始撰寫小說。然而,她強烈地建議,若遭強暴過後首要做的事:
First of all, therapy is for therapy. Leave it there. Second, because you're a rape victim, everyone wants to turn everything you do into something "therapeutic" — oh, I understand, going to the bathroom must be so therapeutic for you![3]
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