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What is "The Time Traveler's Wife" about?

If life is a journey, Henry's journey must be more circuitous than ordinary people's. He suffers from chronic time dislocation and will drift between time unknowingly. He thought he met twenty-year-old Claire for the first time when he was twenty-eight, but Claire said: "I have known you since you were a child." After marrying Claire for many years, Henry suddenly found himself back in his childhood, and This time I met six-year-old Claire. Because of those involuntary disappearances, Henry would witness his young self encounter those past over and over again, but he could only watch and taste the happiness, sadness and pain over and over again. But what about Claire walking on the normal journey of time? She was left far behind by her husband and anxiously longed for her lover to return to her as soon as possible. Although Claire possesses time, she can only touch time by touching Henry. What filters the passionate love of this pair of lovers, and what drives them to bravely explore the complicated and intertwined destinies, finally making time become insignificant in the face of love? This is a high-spirited ode to love and a romantic journey that is unimaginable to ordinary people. This is like a science fiction novel, but it is full of poetry. This is like a love novel, but it is full of faith and the philosophy of time and space. This is reminiscent of the masterpiece "Love in the Time of Cholera" by the literary master Marquez. The male protagonist in the book has gone through war and plague, and for half a century, he has been infatuated with the touching story of waiting for the woman he fell in love with.