Neighbor Love

Neighbor Love

by (us) Sigrid Nunez

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93Kwords23chapters
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Ch. 23Postscript
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About This Novel

When the balance of comfort in life is insufficient, how can the love of neighbors resolve the confusion of life and death? The National Graphic Award winner's work directly touches the soul, and goes on a beautiful deathbed adventure with lonely souls. A clear summer night, a beautiful town, a beautiful house, and a bottle of euthanasia medicine hidden deep in the drawer... This is the final ending she wrote for herself. It is also the vow she and her best friend made in front of the hospital bed and the adventure they decided to go on together. When the journey of life becomes twilight, and everything that has been squandered such as madness, willfulness, youth, appearance, career, family affection, and love gradually fades away, can the traveler end his life peacefully? Sigrid Nunez, winner of the 2018 National Book Award, tells a story of talking and listening with her unique prose and note-taking techniques, asking every lonely soul in the noisy world: What are you going through? This creates "neighborly love" with the person who confides in each other. The novel sparkles with the philosophical meaning and universal sentiment of Nietzsche's "On Neighbors": when the various comforts in life are insufficient, to resolve those eternal life puzzles, perhaps only the love of neighbor can comfort each other's pain.

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