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汤姆·哈泽德 有一个危险的秘密,他或许看起来像是一个普通的40岁中年人,但这是一种罕见的情况(疾病), 他活了很多世纪,从伊丽莎白时期的英格兰到爵士时代的巴黎,从纽约到南海,汤姆经历了很多,现在他只渴望普通的生活。
他常常更换自己的身份去生存,汤姆有一个完美的幌子(cover) —— 在 一所伦敦的综合学校做历史老师。这里他可以教授孩子们关于战争和政治(女巫猎人) 就好像他从未见过它们一样。他会努力的平复过去,that catching up with him. 汤姆唯一不能做的事是爱。
How to stop time 是一个关于失去和寻找你自己的疯狂的苦乐参半的故事,关于变化的确定性,关于一生,他将学习如何去生活。
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TOM HAZARD has dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-years-old. but owing to a rare condition,he's been alive for centuries.Form Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris,from New York to the South Seas,Tom has seen a lot,and now carver an ordinary life.
Always changing his identity to stay alive,Tom has the prefect cover - working as a history teacher at a London comprehensive.Here he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he'd never witnessed them first-hand.He can try to tame the past that is fast catching up with him.
How to stop time is a wild and bittersweet story about losing and findng yourselt, about the certainty of change and about the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live.