A consteliation of vital phenomena(生命如不朽繁星)-Anthony Marra
生命是什么？五天的邂逅，原来缘已牵挂十年。这本小说如果不坚持看到最后，我很难给出它好评。混乱时期的俄罗斯，作者将完全不同的人物联系在一起，动荡的局势，人们备受折磨和痛苦。插叙，时间混乱，一个情节跳到另一个情节，感觉脑子不够用。原以为毫无联系的人，到小说的最后竟都串联了起来。在车臣，种族冲突，命如草芥，却一直被拯救，被保护。
Anthony Marra's debut novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. Reviews have hailed it as everything from "brilliant" and "haunting" to "a flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles."
One day, in a snowy village in war-torn Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides as Russian soldiers abduct her father, Dokka, in the middle of the night. Their kindly neighbor, Akhmed, fears the worst when he sees the soldiers setting fire to Dokka's house as they take him away, but he rescues Havaa from her hiding place. Fearing she will be discovered, Akhmed takes Havaa to the local hospital, abandoned but for one doctor, Sonja, who alone (with the help of one cantankerous nurse) has been treating all of the victims of war and illness that enter the dilapidated hospital's doors. Akhmed, who was a medical student at the very bottom of his class, promises to work as a doctor with Sonja to ensure Havaa is provided for.Sonja comes with her own set of issues, most notably her sister, Natasha, who has continuously disappeared and reappeared in Sonja's life, but has been missing for some time. And Akhmed is caring for his own bedridden wife, and worrying about his neighbor and childhood friend, who is an informant for the Russians. But Sonja and Akhmed forge a reluctant partnership, one which opens both of their eyes to the surprising connections that tie them together.
我很喜欢Sonia这个角色，她在我心中是一个优秀女性的代表，虽然只是一个医生却有着一个掌控者的气质在，决绝果断，优秀的专业素养，但却始终有着牵挂妹妹的温柔。拉马赞，首次看我是厌恶他的，很像中国那段时间的汉奸角色，可是越往后看，越心酸，坏人也曾经热血般地正直过，却被现实拖到心累。艾哈迈德我不做评价，虽然是主角但是总感觉不能理解他的性格，应该是看得还不够深入吧，只对他的一句话印象深刻，如论如何，我们都不能和家人分开，娜塔莎任性却也悲惨，哈瓦娜就一直单纯着吧，被保护。
虽然到故事的最后，杜卡还是没有回来，索菲亚任然没有找到娜塔莎，但是在战争中被无限放大的亲情友情及爱情，让人感受到温暖。想说，和平年代请珍惜你身边的人，因为生命最终都要归于寂静。
