《命运的错》

    Insightful and bold, the book is award-winning author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, exploring the funny and tragic business of being alive and in love.

    Hazel, 16, has been fighting thyroid* cancer since age 13, and only through the use of an experimental drug is she still alive. She carries an oxygen tank with her everywhere, and hasn’t attended traditional school since her diagnosis*.

    Depressed and lonely, she tries a support group, where she meets the handsome Augustus Waters, a 17-year-old dreamboat* who quickly turns her life into an adventure. Green avoids the typical will-they-or-won’t-they of most teen reads, as cancer victims don’t have the luxury of time to dawdle* with their affections. Instead, Waters and Hazel become fast friends.

    Green’s novel is elegantly plotted, and as sad in places as one might expect a book about cancer to be. But it’s also full of joy. The two have a zeal* for living and for each other that, cancer or not, is rare, and it’s a delight to see their plans carried out and relationship flourish* even as they both face death.

    (SD-Agencies)