It’s 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She’s in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they’re trying for a baby – and she doesn’t want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.

　　作者伊丽莎白·吉尔伯特在小时候有个梦想：以为自己长大后会是儿女成群的妈妈。但在30岁以后，她才发现自己既不想要小孩，也不想要丈夫。108个短篇象征了灵魂探索、自我发现之旅。作者在意大利、印度、印尼三个不同国度之间寻找自己——到意大利品尝美食，尽享感官的满足，在世上最好的比萨与美酒的陪伴下，灵魂就此再生。在印度，与瑜伽士的接触，洗涤了她混乱的身心。巴厘岛上，她寻得了身心的平衡。在这一整年的追寻快乐与虔诚之间的平衡中，她终于发现：“拯救我的人，并非王子，而是我自己操控我，拯救我”。

作者简介

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a story collection, Pilgrims (a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award); a novel, Stern Men; and The Last American Man (a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award).

　　伊莉莎白·吉尔伯特，小说家、新闻记者、两度获得National Magazine Award 深度报导奖，作品The Last American Man 入选美国国家图书奖决赛名单及2002年纽约时代年代好书，故事集Pilgrims获得Paris Review 最佳新人小说等奖项。曾为知名杂志GQ、Bazaar、The New York Magazine撰稿。因本书在全美的热销，2007年入选TIME官方网站100位最具影响力的人物。

精彩书评

"A writer of incandescent talent"
-- Annie Proulx

"It’s a good read. I can’t get away from it"
-- Britney Spears, Glamour

"If a more likable writer than Gilbert is currently in print, I haven’t found him or her … Gilbert’s prose is fuelled by a mix of intelligence, wit and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible."
-- New York Times

"A witty, honest account of loss and new beginnings, this will be enjoyed by anyone who’s realised “having it all” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be."
-- Easy Living

　　“很多女性在“成熟”的过程中会忽略了自己，希望知识女性能够通过这本书，找到已经被忘掉的自我。”
　　——凤凰卫视财经主播　曾子墨

　　“我认为，一个女孩会比一个男孩更早，更清晰地接纳爱，了解爱。却只有在长大之后，通过各种方式的灵修了解男性世界的宽广和深刻。在精神世界里，二者从来是合二为一的。”
　　——80后才女作家　安意如

　　“每一个女性都应该看看这本书，相信我。书非常好看，译得也生动。EAT是在意大利，PRAY在印度，LOVE在印尼。从意大利到巴厘岛，由颓废变快乐，是一本旅行励志书。”
　　——知名作家赵赵