There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister....Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart-and the joy and pain of living. The inspiration for this novel came from Nicholas Sparks's sister: her life and her courage. From the internationally bestselling author Nicholas Sparks, comes his most moving story yet....

　　一个貌似老套的爱情故事，却因其蕴含的深刻而不落俗套；一场看似寻常的青涩初恋，却因其创设的情境而耐人寻味。这便是尼古拉斯·斯帕克思的畅销小说《留住一片情》。
　　悲情的故事或令人感慨，或催人泪下，或二者兼而有之。然而，我们在阅读这部作品时，不仅仅会醉心于初恋的至纯至美，感伤于故事的缠绵悱恻，而且还会感悟到生活的真谛——在爱情这袭华服的掩饰之下，作者转达给我们的是诸多寓意：人生的价值，人性的成长，亲情的重拾，真爱的意义……
　　《留住一片情》是一部古旧而雅致的浪漫小说。斯帕克思用一支生花的妙笔，为我们展示了一个哀婉动人的爱情故事。无论年龄大小，无论身居何处，我们只要打开这本小说，就会被书中弥漫着的怀旧气息和人情味所感染。于是，在斯帕克思的引领之下，我们会同男主人公一道，经历心智的成熟，情智的提升，还有人性的成长。

作者简介

Nicholas Sparks is one of the world's most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with nearly 80 million copies in print worldwide, in over 45 languages, including over 50 million copies in the United States alone, and his popularity continues to soar.
Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28. It was published in 1996 by Warner Books. He followed with the novels Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), True Believer (2005) and its sequel, At First Sight (2005), Dear John (2006), The Choice (2007), The Lucky One (2008), The Last Song (2009), Safe Haven (2010) and The Best of Me (2011), as well as the 2004 non-fiction memoir Three Weeks With My Brother, co-written with his brother Micah.

　　尼古拉斯·斯帕克思（NichoIas Sparks），美国著名畅销作家，著有多本小说，作品被翻译超过35种语言、全球销量超过四千五百万册！他与《哈利波特》系列作者J.K.罗琳，是仅有的两位同时有精装和平装作品在纽约时报排行榜上停留超过一年的作者。他被称为美国“纯爱小说教父”、“纯爱小说天王”、“催泪弹”。

精彩书评

"Sure to wring yet more tears from willing readers' eyes, the latest novel by the bestselling Sparks is a forced coming-of-age story concerning a pair of unlikely young lovers. In a corny flashback device that mimics The Notebook, 57-year-old Landon Carter spirits himself back to his fateful senior year in high school in Beaufort, N.C., when he was an archetypal troublemaking teenager of the 1950s, changed forever by an unexpected first love. Jamie Sullivan, the Bible-toting minister's daughter, with her drab brown sweaters, spinster hairstyle and sincere, beatific advice, is the obvious target of high school ridicule. Despite conspiring in Jamie's derision, class president Landon, desperate for a date for the homecoming dance, finds himself asking Jamie. Afterwards, Jamie asks him to participate with her in the metaphor-laden school Christmas play (Jamie plays the angel). Landon endures the taunting of his friends and forms an uneasy friendship with Jamie, which is carefully supervised by her father. The teens visit needy orphans, give Oscar-worthy performances in the school play and share dreams watching the sunset. Landon realizes he's in love with Jamie, but, of course, she is hiding a devastating secret that could wring her from Landon's arms forever. Now tortured by his knowledge of what will be her terrible fate, he must make the ultimate decision that catapults him into adulthood. Readers may be frustrated with the invariable formula that Sparks seems to regurgitate with regularity. Although the narrator declares, "My story can't be summed up in two or three sentences; it can't be packaged into something neat and simple that people would immediately understand," this is the author's most simple, formulaic, and blatantly melodramatic package to date."
-- Publishers Weekly

"In Sparks's latest sentimental tale, a 17-year-old boy in 1950s North Carolina finds all his expectations overthrown by the Baptist minister's daughter. Film rights were purchased by the producer of Message in a Bottle."
-- Library Journal

　　斯帕克思写了一个关于年轻人真爱永恒的甜蜜故事，虽然他告诉我们悲喜共存，但仍令人潸然泪下。
　　——《纽约每日新闻》

　　斯帕克思再次证明他是拨动心弦的高手……这本书令广大粉丝着迷。
　　——《书单》