最近,我在一家医院动了个手术。那里的看护长告诉我说,她在一本杂志上读到我的小说《破碎的家庭》,她问我是不是打算为这篇小说写一个续篇,因为她想知道——这也很自然——一个年仅八岁就被父母遗弃了的小男孩后来怎么样了。当时我在病中,没心思考虑她的需求,现在我可以认真考虑了,我却不得不承认她的想法很好。也许我本应将那故事写得完整 Recently, I had a surgery in a hospital. The head nurse there told me that she read my novel The Broken Family in a magazine and asked if I was going to write a sequel to the novel because she wanted to know - and that’s natural - - What happened to a young boy abandoned by her parents when she was only eight years old? At the time I was sick, I did not think about her needs, and now I can seriously consider it, but I have to admit that she thinks well. Maybe I should have written that story completely