The Time Traveler's Wife-时间旅行者之妻

作者：Audrey Niffenegger

书名：The Time Traveler's Wife《时间旅行者之妻》

中文简介：一场车祸，母亲丧生，而孩子却奇迹般幸存，他赤裸著身体获救，然而救人者竟然是来自未来的自己。

原来，亨利·德泰伯尔（Henry DeTamble，埃里克·巴纳饰），这位芝加哥图书馆的一名管理员患上慢性时间错位症，正在忍受的是一种遗传而来的“时间混乱”所带来的麻烦和痛苦，这是一种极其罕见的特殊体质，使得他围绕着属于自己的时间线，随时随地都会消失或出现。不断地在时空当中来来回回地穿梭，最可怕的是，他没办法控制自己的能力，只能无奈地任凭命运的摆布。而且，他每次穿越都赤身裸体，经常闹出笑话。

在无数次的穿越中，他时常会穿越到同一个地点，那就是女主角克莱尔（Clare Abshire，瑞秋·麦亚当斯饰）家别墅外的树林中。在那里他认识了当时才6岁的克莱尔（布鲁克琳·普劳克斯饰），并且告诉她自己是一个时空穿梭者。而克莱尔也在一次次与亨利的相遇中逐渐爱上了他，梦想着在未来能够嫁给他，直到他们在图书馆的第一次相遇，他们的时间轴第一次在现实中同步了……他们在克服了层层地阻碍之后，共同迈进了婚姻的殿堂……

然而这段婚姻所衍生出来的问题和复杂性，却因为亨利对自己的无能为力而增加了很多，他没办法控制自己在同一个时空逗留的时间长短，所以他和他的爱人永远都没有办法保持步调一致……

英文简介：A funny, often poignant tale of boy meets girl with a twist: what if one of them couldn't stop slipping in and out of time? Highly original and imaginative, this debut novel raises questions about life, love, and the effects of time on relationships.

Audrey Niffenegger’s innovative debut, The Time Traveler’s Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing. 

The Time Traveler’s Wife depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare’s marriage and their passionate love for each other as the story unfolds from both points of view. Clare and Henry attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals—steady jobs, good friends, children of their own. All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.