Cute bones

Author: Alice Sebold
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: My last name is Salmon, which sounds like "salmon," and my first name is Susie. On October 6, 1973, I was only fourteen years old when I was murdered. The murderer was my neighbor. My mother liked the flowers in his garden, and my father even asked him how to fertilize them. In the novel, when Salmon Susie first appears, she has already gone to heaven. From this strange new place, she looks down on the human world, telling us a bittersweet but hopeful story in the fresh and lively voice of a fourteen-year-old girl. Heaven looks very much like a school playground, with a nice swing set, and there are tutors there to help newcomers, as well as friends who live with her. As long as she thinks about it, everything she wants appears before her. But what she wants is to return to the human world and spend her life with the one she loves, yet she never gets her wish. The Lovely Bones author Alice Sebold employs bold narrative techniques to transform a human tragedy into a suspenseful yet humorous and heartwarming story. It is a heartwarming novel filled with compassion and understanding. The book has been at the top of the New York Times bestseller list for nearly thirty weeks and has been on the list for over seventy weeks. It has been a bestseller for two years. It was selected as a recommended book by the American "Book of the Month Club" and won the "American Novel of the Year" award. It was also named one of the "Best Books of the Year in the UK." In the Littérature magazine's list of "Top 20 Books of 2003 in France," it ranked second. Currently, the book is published in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, and other versions, selling over five million copies worldwide. The film adaptation of the book will be directed by Peter Jackson, the director of The Lord of the Rings. The Lovely Bones is a somber story that describes the thoughts of a teenage girl who was raped and murdered. The narrator is the victim herself, and the first sentence of the novel is: "On December 6, 1993, I was only fourteen years old when I was murdered." The protagonist tells the story of how her murder affects her family, the police investigation, and her life in heaven. The author writes from the perspective of Susie, a fourteen-year-old girl, looking down from heaven at the world she has left behind, like "a fish floating in the sky." Of course, she doesn't see what she wants to see: her mother is devastated by her death; her father beats her girlfriend Clarissa, blaming her for the daughter's death. The real murderer is the neighbor's troublemaker, Harvey, but the police are ineffective in catching him, allowing him to escape. Susie follows and observes his movements from heaven. Susie also has a close friend, Ruth, and a younger brother in the human world, and her soul appears before them constantly. Her friend Ruth never forgets her and, after growing up, dedicates herself to becoming a witness in the trial of the crime. The author ends the book with Susie's voice, saying goodbye to them...