Chia, the protagonist who was abandoned by his family several times in his childhood, lived a nearly isolated life in the depths of wetlands and jungles. The pain of childhood kept her away from the crowd and dealt with the plants and animals in the wetland all day. Most of the knowledge she learned from them when she was growing up. This KIA is full of mystery to the people in the town. She was labeled as "barbaric", "ignorant" and "dirty" and naturally became a special existence independent of modern civilization.
After many years, Chia, who is very familiar with wetland and lagoon environment, has rich field knowledge and strong viability. She got a chance to publish all her knowledge, wrote a series of bestsellers and eventually became a legend in the town.
The story of this book adopts a two-line parallel narrative method. On the one hand, the author tells the story of Kia's growing experience with the passage of time, on the other hand, he tells the investigation and trial process of a murder case that happened in Kia's adulthood across time and space. In order to keep the readability of this book, this paper tries to avoid involving the plot content of the story.
The description of the wild environment in Kia's life in the book is very infectious and picturesque. Through her descriptions of swamps, lagoons, shrubs, beaches and various animals, it seems that you can picture in your mind the background of Kia going in and out of wetland waterways, picking up mussels, feeding seagulls and avoiding outsiders every day. Every grass and tree in the painting, the animals in the painting all show the original ecology and wild beauty without external interference.
Delia Owens is not only a writer and magazine editor, but also a biologist who has studied African wildlife. The vivid words in the book are the result of the author's personal experience and careful observation for many years.
This is what Kia told her after she remembered her mother leaving without saying goodbye. Kia was only six years old when her mother left. She knows why her mother left. With her mother's departure, her two brothers and two sisters also quietly left this house, leaving only her and her father who was drunk and had leg problems. Dad, whose conditions were good and bad, went out for a while and never came back.
Asia Pacific is young. Even if she wants to leave, she has no ability, no place to go and no money. As a result, she became a person who was left behind forever and abandoned forever.
It goes without saying that readers can understand how terrible her situation is. How does a minor child survive and protect himself in a lonely wetland forest? So she is extremely afraid and distrustful of the crowd. She insisted on living alone in the wetland, and her personality became more sensitive and inferior.
Chia struggled in loneliness almost all her life. She feels lonely. She enjoys loneliness and the purity and beauty of living with animals; I hate loneliness, too. I hate that she only has wetlands and is eager for companionship. This is the source of all the stories that happened later.
This sentence was said by KIA's father. Her parents believe in the power of poetry. She always remembers the poems that her mother liked to read when she was a child. Chia also has her own favorite poems, which she often recites. They all came from a poet named Amanda Hamilton. Her poems are simple and plain, but each capital letter is especially suitable for Kia's mood and emotion when she recites.
This is the first time that I strongly feel the rhythm and appeal of poems, probably because they are the best interpretation of Chia's experience, which makes people feel strong feelings, but the language is concise but directly hits people's hearts.
"Sunset is never simple.
Twilight is reflection and refraction,
Never true.
Even the tides are disguised,
Cover up the trail,
Cover up a lie.
We don't care.
Twilight scam.
We see bright colors,
But never know.
The sun has set.
Underground,
Just like we saw it burn.
Sunset is a disguise,
Cover up the truth, cover up the lies. "
Because this is a novel, I want to talk about my reading experience without touching the plot as much as possible, so as to keep the mystery and freshness for everyone to read in the future.
After reading the whole book on the second day of the lunar new year, I feel hearty. The characters in the book are distinctive and unique, and the emotions are primitive and sincere, which makes you constantly attracted and involved in the plot during reading. Four-star recommendation, well worth reading.
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