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Things in Nature Merely Grow (Paperback, 미국판)
퓰리처상 수상작이자 내셔널 북 어워드 최종 후보작으로 선정된 이 책은, 아들을 잃은 작가 이윤 리가 슬픔을 근원적으로 수용해 나가는 과정을 담은 놀랍고도 저항적인 작품입니다.
저자는 2017년과 2024년에 두 아들을 모두 자살로 잃었다는 비극적인 사실을 담담히 고백하며 이야기를 시작합니다. 죽음이 단 한 순간에 엄연한 사실이 되어버린 현실 속에서, 그녀는 아들의 자리를 지켜줄 언어를 찾기 위해 사유하기 시작합니다.
그녀는 글쓰기, 정원 가꾸기, 카뮈와 비트겐슈타인 읽기, 피아노 배우기 등 삶을 지속하게 하는 일들을 해나갑니다. 그리고 죽음 곁에서 깊이 사유하며 하루하루를 살아냅니다.
이 책은 비극에 파묻힌 애도 일기가 아닙니다. 세상을 떠난 아이들은 영원히 존재하며 자신들 역시 영원한 부모라는 깨달음 속에서, 오직 '지금'이라는 현재를 살아가는 저자의 영혼을 담은 증거, 『Things in Nature Merely Grow』입니다.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
One of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year
Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James.
“There is no good way to say this,” Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book.
“There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged . . . My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.”
There is no good way to say this―because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, “a single point in a time line.” Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James. Li does what she can: doing “things that work,” including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death.
This is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving or mourning. As Li writes, “The verb that does not die is ‘to be.’ Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James. We were and are and will always be their parents. There is no now and then, now and later; only now and now and now and now.” Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li’s indomitable spirit.
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
One of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year
Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James.
“There is no good way to say this,” Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book.
“There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged . . . My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.”
There is no good way to say this―because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, “a single point in a time line.” Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James. Li does what she can: doing “things that work,” including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death.
This is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving or mourning. As Li writes, “The verb that does not die is ‘to be.’ Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James. We were and are and will always be their parents. There is no now and then, now and later; only now and now and now and now.” Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li’s indomitable spirit.
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