神秘大道 – Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving

知名作家胡安，在墨西哥的垃圾场长大，暮年到菲律宾旅行。

40年前的回忆，却像一条神秘大道，始终围绕着他：垃圾场大火中救出来的书、孤儿院圣母玛利亚丢失的鼻子、马戏团阴沉的狮群……以及十三岁妹妹恐惧的脸——因为她预知了自己和哥哥的未来。如果能够改变未来，她会怎么做？

胡安回忆得越深，越是拼凑出一个骇人听闻的真相，悲伤汹涌而来。

当时胡安只有十四岁，他无法选择自己成为什么样子，更无法挽回任何人的未来。

John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.
As we grow older—most of all, in what we remember and what we dream—we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present.

As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. “An aura of fate had marked him,” John Irving writes, of Juan Diego. “The chain of events, the links in our lives—what leads us where we’re going, the courses we follow to our ends, what we don’t see coming, and what we do—all this can be mysterious, or simply unseen, or even obvious.”

Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past—in Mexico—collides with his future.

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