註釋
Elizabeth Gilbert在她的暢銷前作《享受吧！一個人的旅行Eat, Pray, Love》中，談到她在歷經破碎婚姻後，獨自到印度、峇里島、義大利展開探尋自我，享受最佳身心暢快的旅程。一個人的精采，似乎就這麼持續下去...
Gilbert在最新作《Committed》與讀者分享她最新的近況：曾立誓不再婚的她，在印尼旅行時遇見澳洲戀人Nunes，他們兩人都離過婚，卻決定步入婚姻！
當時Gilbert與伴侶Nunes一路旅行到法國，但Nunes因國籍身分問題在達拉斯被扣留了。移民官員告訴他們，最簡單的解決方式是他們倆個結婚。他們雖然對婚姻都心生畏懼，卻希望能共同在美國生活。為了尋找解答，他們一路來到澳洲、巴里島、柬埔寨、印度尼西亞、泰國和越南等地旅行。旅遊期間，他們決定再婚了。這本以婚姻為討論核心的《Committed》也因此誕生。
在《Committed》中，Gilbert娓娓道出自己從矛盾複雜的情緒中，選擇再婚的歷程與感受。她試著從歷史、社會學研究、家人朋友的訪談，重新思考婚姻關係— 這個在人類文明中充滿矛盾又有趣的習性。(文/歐蘭紐頓)
At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never get legally married.
But providence intervened in the form of the United States government, which—after detaining Felipe at an American border crossing—gave the couple a choice: they could get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again.
Committed, told with Gilbert’s trademark wit, intelligence and compassion, attempts to “turn on all the lights” when it comes to matrimony. Frankly examining questions of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family tradition, social expectations, divorce risks, and humbling responsibilities, Gilbert’s memoir is a clear-eyed celebration of love with all the complexity and consequence that real love entails.
作者簡介
Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a short story collection, Pilgrims-a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares-and a novel, Stern Men. A Pushcart Prize winner and National Magazine Award-nominated journalist, she works as writer-at-large for GQ. Her journalism has been published in Harper’s Bazaar, Spin, and The New York Times Magazine, and her stories have appeared in Esquire, Story, and the Paris Review.
