"北欧，瑞典，两个年轻人相爱了。
焦急地等待电话，收集好每一片对方扔掉的纸屑，他们甚至觉得相遇之前的时间是不必存在的。
她会从梦中笑醒，他睡觉时像个孩子，早上留在枕头上的口水印都似一颗小小的桃心。他们靠亲吻和拥抱就可以生活，他们仿佛活在人生的慢镜头里。
渐渐地，他们开始争吵……
从试探、犹疑、迷恋、幸福，到倦怠、争吵、分开，
爱到底是在什么时候出现了裂缝？"
210页、210天、210个场景，从相识到现在，从陌生到相爱，从疼爱到伤害，从厮守到分开。一段爱情究竟是在哪个时刻消失的？
中英双语对照版，每一句话都像《和莎莫的500天》（500 Days of Summer）的独白一样触碰心弦。
豆瓣网英文版瞬间想读人数高达1287人。
[瑞典]格纳·阿德里尤斯（Gunnar Ardelius），1981年出生，做过服务生、搬运工、午夜守门人、出租车司机；在巴黎、柏林、吕瑟希尔、马尔默生活过；学过文学与媒体；从2012年起，任瑞典笔会主席。
本书是他的首部作品，因文笔简练、精确，被提名 August Prize，赢得Slangbellan prize。
第一幕；第二幕；第三幕
Her foot slides over and then back, cautiously
stroking the toes of his left foot. His head quivers when he glances up and catches her gleaming eyes, as wide as five-kronor coins. He blushes, noting the soft tug at his heart.
脚缓缓地伸了过去，然后又撤了回来，
小心地抚弄着他左脚的脚趾。他抬起头，
迎面看到她闪闪发亮的眼睛，大大的，
像五克朗的硬币，头脑中不禁一阵眩晕。
他脸红了，意识到心微微一动。
It’s going to haunt him, he understands that even
now. The sweet, stuffy smell in the room, her blotchy face that melts into everything else. She pulls up his shirt so his stomach shows, then does the same thing to herself and presses her bare midriff against his. “Skin,” she says, scrunching her eyes and mouth into the middle of her face.
眼前的这一切会留在他脑海中很久，挥之不去，他现在就已经明白了。屋子里甜腻、浑浊的气味；她绯红的脸颊，融进其他一切红色之中。她拉起他的套头衫，肚子露了出来，然后也拉起自己的，把肚皮贴在他的肚皮上。“肌肤相亲。”她说着，心满意足地眯起眼睛，嘟起嘴巴。
The room is red, everything in the room is red:
the carpet, the bedspread, the wallpaper, a big, fuzzy teddy bear like you win at the fair. Even the threshold leading into the room is red.
“Do I dare go in here?” He senses right away how silly he’s being. Then he doesn’t manage to think anything else. She shoves him brusquely into the room, though with a smile that exudes something else. Shuts the door so the music and the hum disappear, and lies down on the bed. He doesn’t lie down but walks around the room a little aimlessly, picks up a Barbie doll with its hair dyed red.
“Do you think she dyed the hair herself, or can you buy them this way? ”
“Come here for a minute, lie down instead and you can play with the dolls later.”
房间是红色的，房间里的一切都是红色的：
地毯、床罩、壁纸，还有一只毛茸茸的玩具熊，游乐场中奖得来的那种。就连进屋的门槛也是红色的。“我真的敢进去吗？”他感到自己笨得没救了。他还来不及多想，她就把他推进了房间，动作粗鲁，不过嘴唇上的一抹笑容却透露出其他意味。关上门，音乐和嘈杂声消失了，她躺在床上。他没有躺下，在房间里漫无目的地走来走去，拿起一个红头发的芭比娃娃。
“你觉得，是她自己把娃娃的头发染成这样，还是直接买到这种发色的娃娃？”
“到这里来，过来躺下，你可以晚点再玩娃娃。”
Dad is bipolar. That means that he gets a rune
tattooed on his right arm when he goes to Iceland; that he takes up smoking when he‘s forty-seven; that sometimes he leaves an enormous tip when he eats out; that he laughs louder than other people and cries more quietly. But most of the time it doesn’t mean anything.
爸爸患有双相情感障碍症[ 又称“双极性情感障碍”或“躁郁症”，属于情感性精神障碍（mood disorder）的一种类型，指既有躁狂发作，又有抑郁发作的一类疾病。]。
这意味着，他去冰岛的时候，会在右胳膊刺上如尼文[ 北欧古文字母，被认为是有魔力的符号。]纹身；他在四十七岁的时候开始抽烟；有时他去餐厅吃饭 ，会给几百克朗的小费；和别人相比，他笑得大声，却哭得悄无声息。绝大多数情况下，他和正常人一样。
“How do you know when it’s over?”
“Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.”
“什么时候，你知道结束了?”
“也许是，当这个人站在你面前时，比起这个人，你更爱那些爱的记忆。”
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