《墓园的花要常换水》假如我再也听不到你的脚步声，我该如何是好？

　　离去的是你的生命还是我的生命？我不知道。

　　紫堇·万圣是勃艮第一座小镇的墓园守护人，路过的人和熟人都会来她的住处，在她为他们准备的咖啡里，混合着笑声和泪水。她的日常生活总是伴随着他们的知心话语。有一天，一个从马赛来的男人敲开了她的房门，提出将他母亲的骨灰埋葬在一个男人的墓里……从此一切都变了，记忆和现实交织在一起，生者与死者的纽带被挖掘和联接起来，一些幽暗的人生故事开始闪闪发光。瓦莱莉•佩兰与我们分享了一个女人惊心动魄的经历，她尽管经受了生活的悲辛与考验，仍执着地相信幸福终会到来。

　　【作者简介】

　　瓦莱莉·佩兰（ValériePerrin），法国女作家，也是摄影师和电影编剧。1967年出生于孚日山区的勒米尔蒙，成长于勃艮第，1986年居巴黎，1995年移居诺曼底。

　　2009年，出版电影《这样的爱》（由其伴侣克洛德·勒卢什执导）图文并茂的拍摄手记。

　　2015年，出版长篇小说《星期天被遗忘的人》，荣获包括“书店最爱”在内的13项文学奖，被翻译成外文在十多个国家出版。

　　2018年，出版《墓园的花要常换水》，取得非同凡响的成功，荣获法国“新闻之家”奖和口袋书读者奖。2019年，被《费加罗报》列入“法国10位最畅销作家”，作品被翻译成外文在32个国家出版。2020年，成为意大利最畅销作家。罗马的帕洛玛（Palomar）影视公司买下改编权，她着手将这部小说改编成电视连续剧。

　　2021年，出版《三个人可以走多远》，再度被《费加罗报》列入“法国10位最畅销作家”。

　　【译者简介】

　　周小珊，青年翻译家，南京大学法语文学博士，巴黎第八大学文学博士，现为法国阿尔多瓦外国语学院副教授。译著有小说《爱情没那么美好》《6点27分的朗读者》《白日美人》、亨利·米肖诗集《夜动》、让·科克托专著《关于电影》、尚塔尔·托马文论《被遮蔽的痛苦》等。

"The Flowers in the Cemetery Must Always Change the water" If I can no longer hear your footsteps, what should I do?

Is it your life that's gone or mine? I don't know.

Corydalis Wan Saint was the cemetery keeper in the small town of Burgundy, and passers-by and acquaintances would come to her house, mixing laughter and tears in the coffee she prepared for them. Her daily life is always accompanied by their heart-to-heart words. One day, a man from Marseille knocked on her door and offered to bury his mother's ashes in a man's grave... From then on everything changes, memory and reality intertwine, the bonds of the living and the dead are dug and connected, and some dark life stories begin to shine. Valerie Perrin shares with us the thrilling story of a woman who, despite the trials and tribulations of life, clung to the belief that happiness would eventually come.

【 About the author 】

ValeriePerrin is a French writer, photographer and screenwriter. Born in Le Miermont in the Vosges Mountains in 1967, he grew up in Burgundy, lived in Paris in 1986, and moved to Normandy in 1995.

In 2009, he published the documentary film This Love (directed by his partner Claude Lelouche).

In 2015, he published his novel Sunday's Forgotten Man, which won 13 literary awards, including Bookstore Favorites, and was translated into foreign languages and published in more than 10 countries.

In 2018, he published "Flowers in the Cemetery should always change the water", which achieved extraordinary success and won the French "House of News" award and the Pocket Book Reader Award. In 2019, he was included in Le Figaro's "10 best-selling French authors" and his works have been translated into foreign languages and published in 32 countries. In 2020, he became the best-selling author in Italy. Palomar, a film company based in Rome, bought the rights, and she set about adapting the novel into a television series.

In 2021, he published "How Far Three People Can Go", which was once again included in Le Figaro's "10 best-selling French authors".

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Zhou Xiaoshan, young translator, Doctor of French Literature from Nanjing University, Doctor of Literature from Paris VIII University, and Associate professor at Aldois School of Foreign Languages in France. He has translated novels such as "Love is Not So Beautiful", "The Reader at 6:27", "Belle de jour", Henri Michaud's poetry collection "Night Moves", Jean Cochteau's monographer "About the Film", and Chantal Tomavin's "The Pain of Being Covered".