"北歐，瑞典，兩個年輕人相愛了。
焦急地等待電話，收集好每一片對方扔掉的紙屑，他們甚至覺得相遇之前的時間是不必存在的。
她會從夢中笑醒，他睡覺時像個孩子，早上留在枕頭上的口水印都似一顆小小的桃心。他們靠親吻和擁抱就可以生活，他們仿佛活在人生的慢鏡頭里。
漸漸地，他們開始爭吵……
從試探、猶疑、迷戀、幸福，到倦怠、爭吵、分開，
愛到底是在什么時候出現了裂縫？"
210頁、210天、210個場景，從相識到現在，從陌生到相愛，從疼愛到傷害，從廝守到分開。一段愛情究竟是在哪個時刻消失的？
中英雙語對照版，每一句話都像《和莎莫的500天》（500 Days of Summer）的獨白一樣觸碰心弦。
豆瓣網英文版瞬間想讀人數高達1287人。
[瑞典]格納·阿德里尤斯（Gunnar Ardelius），1981年出生，做過服務生、搬運工、午夜守門人、出租車司機；在巴黎、柏林、呂瑟希爾、馬爾默生活過；學過文學與媒體；從2012年起，任瑞典筆會主席。
本書是他的首部作品，因文筆簡練、精確，被提名 August Prize，贏得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.
腳緩緩地伸了過去，然后又撤了回來，
小心地撫弄著他左腳的腳趾。他抬起頭，
迎面看到她閃閃發亮的眼睛，大大的，
像五克朗的硬幣，頭腦中不禁一陣眩暈。
他臉紅了，意識到心微微一動。
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.
眼前的這一切會留在他腦海中很久，揮之不去，他現在就已經明白了。屋子里甜膩、渾濁的氣味；她緋紅的臉頰，融進其他一切紅色之中。她拉起他的套頭衫，肚子露了出來，然后也拉起自己的，把肚皮貼在他的肚皮上。“肌膚相親。”她說著，心滿意足地瞇起眼睛，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.”
房間是紅色的，房間里的一切都是紅色的：
地毯、床罩、壁紙，還有一只毛茸茸的玩具熊，游樂場中獎得來的那種。就連進屋的門檻也是紅色的。“我真的敢進去嗎？”他感到自己笨得沒救了。他還來不及多想，她就把他推進了房間，動作粗魯，不過嘴唇上的一抹笑容卻透露出其他意味。關上門，音樂和嘈雜聲消失了，她躺在床上。他沒有躺下，在房間里漫無目的地走來走去，拿起一個紅頭發的芭比娃娃。
“你覺得，是她自己把娃娃的頭發染成這樣，還是直接買到這種發色的娃娃？”
“到這里來，過來躺下，你可以晚點再玩娃娃。”
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.
爸爸患有雙相情感障礙癥[ 又稱“雙極性情感障礙”或“躁郁癥”，屬于情感性精神障礙（mood disorder）的一種類型，指既有躁狂發作，又有抑郁發作的一類疾病。]。
這意味著，他去冰島的時候，會在右胳膊刺上如尼文[ 北歐古文字母，被認為是有魔力的符號。]紋身；他在四十七歲的時候開始抽煙；有時他去餐廳吃飯 ，會給幾百克朗的小費；和別人相比，他笑得大聲，卻哭得悄無聲息。絕大多數情況下，他和正常人一樣。
“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.”
“什么時候，你知道結束了?”
“也許是，當這個人站在你面前時，比起這個人，你更愛那些愛的記憶。”
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