89 -year -old legendary female editor to write books to talk about aging: there are still stars flashing in the twilight

Cover reporter Zhang Jie intern Zheng Hao

Born in 1917, Diana Asle was the British legendary female editor in the 20th century. At the time of the publishing industry, women generally could only take on some assistants or publicity work. Independent editors such as Asle were extremely rare.

During the editing career of more than 50 years, Asle discovered the author Jane Lish Reese, Nobel Literature winner Naipale, the author of "Jane Love", and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Polkova, Philip Ross, John Upkac, Margaret Atwood and many other major writers have worked closely until they retire until the age of 76. As a editor who trusted in the hearts of the great writers, Asle was thanked by Nobel Prize winner Naipa: "In those years in those years, I sometimes speak to Francis Windehan and Diana Acel while writing. ","

Asle was unmarried in his life and lived alone in his later years. From the perspective of the common standards for women in the era of Asle, her evening scene is relatively desolate. But she felt that life had no regrets. There are still stars in the twilight of life, the elderly are still living, and they are still growing- "In my life, I have never enjoyed herself as comfortable and long -term as it is now." She said.

In 2006, Diana Asle was 89 years old. Two ordinary events made her realize that the impact of aging was real. One of them is: There is a family of people in the park raising a group of Haba dogs and seeing them walking around. Asle suddenly "feels a sting in my heart because I always want to raise a Haba dog, but now, I know this is no longer this no longer. Maybe. Think about it, I'm so old. "The second thing was that she fell in love with the tree fern saplings in the forest of Dominica a few years ago." I don’t have much hope to watch Get this little seedling growing up in my garden and grow into what I think. "

So she thought, "There are so many books about maintaining youth, and more detailed and experimental experience sharing about children and children, but it is rare During this withered journey, my nerves have just experienced the puppy incident and tree fern incident, so I feel pain, so I asked myself: Why don't I record it? Therefore, I wrote this book. "

This is the notes of Asle's 89 -year -old talk about the elderly life of the elderly and sharing how to treat life "withered "-" Twilight ". The book shows us how an elderly single woman survives safely in the world and maintains its own spiritual world. The style of style is frank, delicate, charming, self -pity or sadness. The most important thing is that the writing is quite beautiful and won the Costa Book Book Award in 2008. In July 2022, this book was first introduced in China.

Different from the discussion of the old age and aging topics in the past, Asle is more like a frank warrior, leading us to feel her aging like the same frequency. Human precious life. In the book, she wrote very well -the details of the aging of men and women are different; how women have made them become another type of people through their dress and external changes; There are still stars flashing, but the elderly are still living and they are still growing. Even in the twilight years, an artist and creators can still find what they like to create.

Asle also generously recalled his love history, admitting that he was indifferent to the missed mother's identity, and faced the pain of the elderly honestly, but he still talked with enthusiastically in the process of gardening, painting, reading, writing and other processes. Fresh experience. Overall, Asle showed us a very unique female sample, let us see an ordinary knowledge woman, how to preserve independent self in the world's thorough, and finally face the end of the aging and life end. Essence

The feeling of growing older was recorded by her delicately. "When I was in my sixties, I still felt that I was too far away from middle age. In the range of my life, although I was no longer on the safe ship of my adults, even if I got off, it was even off. Water still toured around on the big ship; the 70th birthday did not feel any difference, because I have always tried my best to ignore my age; but at the age of seventy -one, the situation changed. Old, for a moment, this fact appeared in front of this fact, and I saw the time being pushing the evening scene step by step ... "

Asle's family has a longevity gene, her grandmother and mother lived in their 90s when they were basically at ease, and she set a longevity record of the family -this born in 1917 Female, after witnessing a magnificent whole century, died at a dying hospital in London in January 2019 at the age of 101.

People are limited, and time is the survival dimension that everyone needs to face. Facing the irreversible time of time and river, the easiest life of the elderly life is the future that everyone will reach. Looking at a sincere life of life, it is also an inspiration and strength to cherish our lives better.

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