法國四大暢銷作家、《精巧細緻》大衛‧芬基諾斯最新力作！ Page雜誌：「必須要心情非常差才能不愛上這本書！」 ●入圍2011年龔固爾獎、費米娜獎兩大重要文學獎！獲選《費加洛日報》嚴選新書！ ●法國暢銷突破22萬冊！法國亞馬遜、法雅客讀者★★★★好評！ 在那些美好瑣細逐漸淡去之前， 還有巴黎的深夜讓我們攬鏡自照， 也還有書寫，為我們挖掘一個傾訴未竟之憾的秘洞。 如今他回想起來，這一切要從爺爺的葬禮開始說起。 用三言兩語就能說完的死亡，輕柔而長久地搖撼這個平凡的家族。 奶奶的眼神裡只剩下往事，爸爸陷入退休後的焦慮，媽媽為了一個年輕男子提出離婚。而他也邂逅了一個女人，與她相戀，然後又與她道別。 他想起自己曾在許多不重要的時刻準確地預感著未來，也記得自己往往在重要時刻裡言不由衷而徒留遺憾。 但他不明白為什麼只有孤獨始終魂牽夢縈，為什麼又總只有回憶可以陪伴他抵抗這份孤獨。 要等到他終於提起筆，他才會明白：在那些美好時光之後，所有的過去都不斷昇華為此刻。 從此他成為一名往事的守護者，一個以書寫迎向未來之人……

In a little dive in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of stand-up. In the audience is a district court justice, Avishai Lazar, whom Dov knew as a boy, along with a few others who remember Dov as an awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies. Gradually, as it teeters between hilarity and hysteria, Dov’s patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood: we meet his beautiful flower of a mother, a Holocaust survivor in need of constant monitoring, and his punishing father, a striver who had little understanding of his creative son. Finally, recalling his week at a military camp for youth—where Lazar witnessed what would become the central event of Dov’s childhood—Dov describes the indescribable while Lazar wrestles with his own part in the comedian’s story of loss and survival. Continuing his investigations into how people confront life’s capricious battering, and how art may blossom from it, Grossman delivers a stunning performance in this memorable one-night engagement (jokes in questionable taste included).