After reading "The Foreigner", I suddenly remembered this doubt that Yu Aoi in the movie "Million Dollars and the Bitter Worm Girl" said, "Have you ever felt that it doesn't belong anywhere?" ”。 In the movie, Reiko Sato, played by Yu Aoi, represents the confusion and confusion of adolescence, and when people return to their hometown in middle age, from the London metropolis to their hometown, Angie, the Spanish woman in "The Foreigner", can not be integrated into any place, although this book does not completely tell a story about not being able to blend into the city and not being able to return to her hometown, but the heroine's encounter will take the reader into a magical real society, a world that will be incompatible with the outside world pain and despair.
The cover of the slogan and a few simple introductions are actually a bit one-sided, this book is not a story that can heal the workers outside, so at the beginning I was not very prepared to read it myself, and I was once a little dizzy by the interspersed plot, the awkward name and the complex character relationship, but then slowly followed the author's delicate and deep brushstrokes into the heroine's world, figuring out the reason and direction of the story, I can't help but be suddenly hit, hitting the softest part of our heart, and finally, The fire on the cover will give the foreigner a moment of relief.
Different hometown looks
Anji's hometown, like most people's, is a small village where young people all go out to work and the population is withered, it is an acquaintance society where everything will spread through the streets, it is a boring neighborhood full of discussion and suspicion behind it, but it is also different from ordinary villages, the tradition here is suicide, the atmosphere here is depression, and the genes here are chaotic. People here commit suicide as frequently as contagion, and even a family mostly chooses to leave the world in this way, just like the Hemingways. The existence of this gene-like existence is rumored to be inbreeding or a characteristic of Hungarian sadness, or a depressing chemical secreted by walnut wood, which may actually be due to despair and poverty, and may also have the loneliness of the land that has been isolated for thousands of years. Such a hometown, do you still want to return?
Restless foreigners
Yes, Angie returned here with a tired body after the age of thirty, despite the fact that her parents and brother had all sought short-sightedness, despite the need to bear the gossip and cold eyes of the villagers alone, despite the dark and deep secrets hidden in the family, despite the difficulties and destruction of the rival families. But London has also buried Angie's youth and love, when the nude model met the painter, after six months of breaking up with Angie, tied his feet and jumped into the River Thames, since he angie can no longer achieve the pleasure of physical integration. Back at home, the priest who took good care of Angie after a one-night stand drove away, and the black boy who was working to help also said goodbye to Angie after that night, and the captain of the earth dog he had raised drowned inexplicably, and the trees in the courtyard where he lived were cut down and the line was cut off. When the people around him from childhood to adulthood are constantly leaving, how does Anjie seek inner liberation?
The author Merino once said that we overestimate happiness. She said that she did not write a sad novel, because sadness implied non-acceptance, and the emotion expressed in this work was the acceptance and recognition of the state she had. The ending, like the Chinese writer Wu Qishi's work "Little Little Fire", a fire is completely cut off, an escape is a consolation of the self, since it is incompatible with any environment, then you may as well be a permanent foreigner.