朵拉的世界甜得只有巧克力，路卡則喜歡檸檬酸苦的口感。
還不知道愛情該是什麼感覺，只知道好喜歡就這樣一直在一起，
直到分離來臨－－那是初戀的最後一天。
原來失去愛的滋味就像沙灘上的漫漫長日。
十六年過去，他們各自認識了愛情，但心底總有個想不起來的名字。
－－而重逢，則來得太讓人措手不及。
戀人的雙脣不知疲累，軀體緊緊交纏，
他們以聶魯達之詩互訴情衷－－但命運狡獪得並不放過他們，
這次他們面臨的，是如生死兩隔般的分離……
當愛僅僅錯失了那一秒，緊擁的兩顆心卻不得不放手，
路卡最後一次低喊：「朵……」然後便陷於黑暗之中。
數十年過去，如何相信一切還不會太晚？
「愛情中最抱歉的不是我不愛你，而是不能愛你。」這是一個關於永恆與當下，命運與抉擇的故事，只因為仍愛著，所以甘心等待。一對跨越半個世紀的戀人演繹了詩意、夢幻、憂愁種種生命滋味，而最終想要證明的是：愛是珍貴的東西，足以改變一個人的生命。
An exquisitely romantic debut novel that captures the longing of lost — and sometimes found — love
It is the mid-1960s in a small seaside town in Croatia. Two children, Luka and Dora, meet on their first day of kindergarten. Luka faints the first time he sees Dora and she wakes him with a kiss. The two become inseparable. Over the next few years, they wander the shores of their town, lying on their special rock by the sea as Luka paints — until Dora’s parents move to Paris. Bereft, Luka becomes a solitary young man, prey to the needs of his family, but a promising painter. In Paris, Dora blossoms and becomes a successful actress.
When Luka comes to Paris for a show of his paintings, a chance encounter brings them together. Now adults, they fall back in love, and their feelings are given resonance by a shared adoration of Pablo Neruda. Timing and fate, however, seem determined to keep them apart. Like The Solitude of Prime Numbers and One Day, Nata?a Dragnic’s Every Day, Every Hour is a haunting tale of star-crossed love that will utterly entrance readers with the rhythmic beauty of its language and ineffable air of expectation and heartache.
★本書中譯版《我從未停止愛你》由出版。
作者簡介
娜塔莎．德拉尼希Natasa Dragnic
1965年生於克羅埃西亞的斯普利特，大學主修德語文學和法語文學。1995年移居德國艾爾朗根，從事語言教學工作。本書為她的第一本小說。
Natasa Dragnic was born in Split, Croatia. After studying German, English, and French, she attended the Croatian School of Diplomacy. She currently lives in Erlangen, Germany. This is her first novel.
