

The Summer of Diving
內容簡介
Zoe 的爸爸最近不在家。
照片裡的爸爸,依然笑著、打著網球,看起來和從前一樣快樂;但現在,Zoe 只能到一棟大家看起來都很難過的建築裡探望他。有些日子,爸爸甚至難過到沒有力氣見她。
即使如此,Zoe 還是會來。
等待爸爸的時候,她遇見了女孩 Sabina。Sabina 邀請 Zoe 一起游遍全世界。Zoe 不太相信這真的辦得到,但 Sabina 告訴她:「女孩想做的事,都可以去做。」
於是,那個夏天,兩個女孩展開了一場只屬於她們的想像旅程。
她們一次又一次潛入水中,游過想像中的世界,在海洋般廣闊的想像裡奔向遠方;而 Sabina 有時也會潛進自己的思緒深處。
這段特別的友誼,陪伴 Zoe 度過等待爸爸的日子,也讓她在想念與不安之中,保有勇氣與希望。
用孩子的眼睛,理解「想念」與等待
《The Summer of Diving》是一部細膩而溫柔的作品,描寫當重要的家人暫時無法陪伴自己時,孩子可能經歷的想念、失落與渴望親近。
故事並沒有迴避艱難的情緒,而是透過孩子的想像力與一段珍貴的友誼,讓這些難以說出口的感受有了溫柔的出口。兩個女孩在「游遍世界」的遊戲裡,創造出屬於自己的自由天地,也讓 Zoe 在等待爸爸的過程中感受到陪伴。
文字與繽紛濃郁的畫作彼此呼應,以孩子能理解的方式呈現家庭面對低潮時的樣貌,同時傳遞出即使現在很辛苦,未來仍然可能重新迎來溫暖與團聚的希望。
本書曾獲選《紐約時報書評》(The New York Times Book Review)2022 年最佳童書,也是一本適合親子共讀、陪伴孩子理解複雜情緒的溫暖繪本。
The award-winning and beautiful story of a child coping with her father's absence. The book tackles a difficult subject with great tenderness, validating a child's experience of a parent suffering from depression.
"This poignant, gentle book . . . will be immensely helpful to anyone caring for the child of someone with major depression. It fills an important gap in literature for young children."—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon (winner of the National Book Award) and Far From the Tree
Zoe’s dad isn’t home. She still sees him in photographs, laughing and playing tennis, but for now she can only visit him in a building where everyone looks sad and the walls are an ugly pink color. Some days Zoe’s dad is too sad to see her, but she goes to the hospital anyway. While waiting she meets Sabina who invites her to swim across the world. Zoe’s not sure it’s possible, but Sabina tells her, “A girl can do everything she wants.” Even though Sabina sometimes dives deep into her own thoughts, the two of them swim around the world many times that summer, until eventually Zoe’s dad is ready to come home.
The Summer of Diving is a book full of imagination and hope with a tender child’s-eye understanding of the world. Stridsberg’s story and Lundberg’s lush and colorful paintings reflect and validate a child’s feelings of loss and longing for closeness when a parent’s joy for living temporarily fades.
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—A Best Children's Book of 2022, The New York Times Book Review
"For decades, depression has been hidden from children, but that has turned out to be bad policy. This poignant, gentle book breaks that prohibition and will be immensely helpful to anyone caring for the child of someone with major depression. It fills an important gap in literature for young children."
—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon (winner of the National Book Award) and Far From the Tree
"'A long time passes before I find out where he’s gone. Maybe everyone else has known all along.' The suspension of knowing stretches across the first few pages, poignantly evoking the all-too-common childhood feeling that no one tells you anything. . . . . Stridsberg’s child’s-eye view of mental illness conjures how young people explain gaps in knowledge, their openness to unlikely friendships, the vulnerability of a formative age — and what memories of it survive into adulthood."
—Bonnie Tsui, The New York Times Book Review
作者介紹
B.J. epstein is a Swedish-to-English translator, writer, editor, and doula, as well as a senior lecturer in literature and translation at the University of East Anglia. She lives with her wife and their children in Norwich, England.
SARA LUNDBERG is the author and illustrator of four books and the illustrator of many others. Her work has been awarded the Swedish Book Award and the August Prize among many others, and has been included on the IBBY Honour List. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
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