This book is an essay. It is a song of life about love and forgetting, illness and struggle, farewell and moving forward. When a linguist sees her partner of forty years gradually becoming speechless, disabled and amnesiac, what can she do? In addition to language, what other ways are there to open the human heart? This is a love letter to a partner with dementia. Even though her husband with Alzheimer's disease has forgotten everything, including her, she still devotes her wholehearted love and care to him. The author Zheng Qiuyu is a world-renowned scholar and a tough steel man in the eyes of her colleagues, but she suffered a dramatic change in her life before retirement. She resolutely gave up her brilliant research career and became her husband's full-time caregiver. From the loss of sense of orientation to passing by the house without entering, her husband, who once had a spiritual connection, became increasingly disabled, as if his soul had lost its way. As a linguist,
本书是散文。关于爱与遗忘、疾病与抗争、告别与前行的生命之歌。当一位语言学家, 眼见相濡以沫四十年的伴侣逐渐失语、失能、失忆, 她能够做什么? 打开人类心灵的方式, 除了语言, 还有什么? 这是一封给失智伴侣的情书。纵使患了阿尔茨海默病的丈夫忘记了一切, 忘记了她, 她仍付出全心全力的爱与照护。作者郑秋豫是享誉世界的知名学者, 同僚眼中精悍的钢铁人, 却在退休前遭逢人生剧变。她毅然放弃辉煌的研究生涯, 成为丈夫的全天候照护者。从定向感流失、过家门而不入, 曾心灵相通的丈夫日渐失能, 彷佛灵魂迷了途。身为语言
本书是散文。关于爱与遗忘、疾病与抗争、告别与前行的生命之歌。当一位语言学家, 眼见相濡以沫四十年的伴侣逐渐失语、失能、失忆, 她能够做什么? 打开人类心灵的方式, 除了语言, 还有什么? 这是一封给失智伴侣的情书。纵使患了阿尔茨海默病的丈夫忘记了一切, 忘记了她, 她仍付出全心全力的爱与照护。作者郑秋豫是享誉世界的知名学者, 同僚眼中精悍的钢铁人, 却在退休前遭逢人生剧变。她毅然放弃辉煌的研究生涯, 成为丈夫的全天候照护者。从定向感流失、过家门而不入, 曾心灵相通的丈夫日渐失能, 彷佛灵魂迷了途。身为语言