The frank impressions for me of this book is that this book is poetic and beautiful, but also blur, and difficult to understand the intrinsic part of this book. I enjoy reading it, but the expression is very difficult, and there were many parts that were difficult to understand. I felt it is because this book is entrusting to the reader's imagination to complete the story.
When I briefly summarise this book, this is a story about a girl who chose to live, instead of her best friend been killed. The two girls were asked by the killer (their friends) which one should he kill, and Diana-the the main character- chose to let him kill her friend instead of her. The story is written in two different times, one is the time when Diana is around forty, been married with a nice man with a good career, having a cute daughter, and living happily without any anxiety in her life. The other is the time when Diana is around sixteen and seventeen, spending nice adolescent days with her best friend (Actually, in the book it does not say those girls are Diana and her best friend straightly using the word "a girl" instead of her actual name. However, the reader can predict that it is her). This two-time axis appears alternately, and the span becomes shorter little by little, getting closer to the ending. Diana (aged forty) was having a happy life, but this book is depicting how her life become collapsed. This is a story that throws the reader a question that can a person who chose to live instead of others can be happy, or not.
The contents of the story were very interesting, and I enjoy reading this, but the words used for the depiction were complex, and very difficult to recognize what the author wanting to express. It was difficult to imagine what is happening, for example, in the very last part, the last part of the novel, it says, "......Diana stepped down slowly from its roses, wearing her white gown, and looked." It never says what she saw, and there are not many hints in the book (maybe there are, but I could not find it and consider it), and I can never imagine what the author wanting us to imagine.
The novel, "The Life Before Her Eyes", was very interesting, but there are still many ambiguities, even I finished reading it. I want other people to read this book, and tell me what was actually happening in the book, and what Diana saw at the end.
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