华裔作家张纯如于1997年出版的非文学畅销书《南京大屠杀》跻身美国《纽约时报》畅销书冠军。2004年，张纯如开枪自杀。从2007年起，张纯如的母亲张盈盈耗费六年时间写成这本回忆录，细腻地为读者呈现了女儿36年的人生：张纯如童年时自办的报纸，她早年作为新闻记者的经历，一名年轻历史学者的冉冉升起，与儿子的自闭症作斗争的历程，以及悲剧性的自杀。《张纯如：无法忘却历史的女子》一书充分证明，张纯如确为她那一代人中的佼佼者，同时，这本书也展现了母女之间深切美丽的爱与疼痛。
Iris Chang’s best-selling book The Rape of Nanking forever changed the way we view the Second World War in Asia. It all began with a photo of a river choked with the bodies of hundreds of Chinese civilians that shook Iris to her core. Who were these people? Why had this happened and how could their story have been lost to history? She could not shake that image from her head. She could not forget what she had seen.
A few short years later, Chang revealed this “second Holocaust” to the world. The Japanese atrocities against the people of Nanking were so extreme that a Nazi party leader based in China actually petitioned Hitler to ask the Japanese government to stop the massacre. But who was this woman that single-handedly swept away years of silence, secrecy and shame?
Her mother, Ying-Ying, provides an enlightened and nuanced look at her daughter, from Iris’ home-made childhood newspaper, to her early years as a journalist and later, as a promising young historian, her struggles with her son’s autism and her tragic suicide. The Woman Who Could Not Forget cements Iris’ legacy as one of the most extraordinary minds of her generation and reveals the depth and beauty of the bond between a mother and daughter.
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