近日,在一个黎明时分,我终于认真地读完了英国资深剧作家蕾秋·乔伊斯的小说《一个人的朝圣》,这部小说是她的处女作,2012年曾入围“布克奖”。小说的主人公哈罗德·弗莱,60岁,一个在酿酒厂干了40年的普通销售员,儿子自杀早亡,夫妻疏离,生活变得枯寂、冷硬、无味,有些荒漠了。一天,当哈罗德·弗莱收到20年没见的老友奎妮患癌症的告别信后,在寄信的路上,从一个邮筒到下一个邮筒,不 Recently, at a dawn, I finally finished the novel “a man’s pilgrimage” by the English veteran playwright Rachel Joyce. This novel was her debut. In 2012, she was nominated for “Booker Award ”. Harold Fry, the protagonist of the novel, 60, is an ordinary salesman who spent 40 years in a brewery. His son died early, his husband and wife were estranged, his life became quiet, chill, tasteless and deserted. One day, when Harold Frye received a farewell letter from her old friend Quinn, who had not seen her in 20 years, on the mail, from one postmark to the next,