荣获今年最佳短篇小说奖(The Story Prize)的美国作家安东尼·杜尔(Anthony Doerr)的短篇集《记忆墙》(Memory Wall)里有一篇让人印象尤深的故事《非武装军事区》,里面写到一位垂垂老矣的祖父,他从未对家人讲起过自己在朝鲜战场上的经历,而且也已不再可能有追忆的机会,因为他罹患了阿尔茨海默症,这番简短的描述令人唏嘘喟叹。不无巧合的是,加拿大女作家约翰娜·斯基伯瑞德(Johanna Skibsrud)在她的首部长篇作 There is an impressive story in the short memory of Wall Street, Anthony Doerr, who won this year’s The Story Prize: Unmilitary Area, There is an old man whose grandfather, who has never spoken to his family about his experience of the Korean battlefield, is no longer likely to have the chance to recall Alzheimer’s because of this A brief description of what is sad sigh. Coincidentally, the Canadian woman writer Johanna Skibsrud wrote in her first essay