遗忘之海 – The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

童年记忆常常会被后来发生的事掩盖，变得隐约朦胧，可这些记忆并未消失。

多年后，我回到遗忘之海，童年记忆再次在我脑海中涌现。

那段记忆里，保姆是来自异世界的的怪物，邻居是神秘莫测的女巫。

那段记忆里，海洋能被装入水桶，人沉在海洋里可以无所不知。

那段记忆里，我认识了一位女巫朋友莱蒂，她看上去比我大三四岁，但我猜她也许比我大三四千岁。

那段记忆太过奇妙，却又无比真实。站在遗忘之海的岸边，我隐约看到了沉睡其中的莱蒂……

Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn’t thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she’d claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.

A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly’s wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.

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