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In this enchanting novel about a 12-year-old English boy, David, who is thrust into a realm where eternal stories and fairy tales assume an often gruesome reality. Books are the magic that speak to David, whose mother has died at the start of WWII after a long debilitating illness. His father remarries, and soon his stepmother is pregnant with yet another interloper who will threaten David's place in his father's life. When a portal to another world opens in time-honored fashion, David enters a land of beasts and monsters where he must undertake a quest if he is to earn his way back out.
這是一個(gè)關(guān)于失去，也是關(guān)于失而復(fù)得的故事。十二歲的小男孩失去了他的母親，當(dāng)他坐在悲傷的黑暗里，陪伴他給他慰藉的只有母親生前最?lèi)?ài)的故事書(shū)。她總是告訴自己，故事?lián)碛猩?，?dāng)他們被閱讀被朗誦，他們就從另一個(gè)世界里活了過(guò)來(lái)。
如同母親所說(shuō)，當(dāng)他開(kāi)始翻閱那些書(shū)籍，故事們開(kāi)始從另外一個(gè)世界跨了過(guò)來(lái)，現(xiàn)實(shí)與想象的世界逐漸交錯(cuò)難分，終于，他被迫進(jìn)入了一個(gè)與故事相似，卻充滿了恐怖怪獸的世界里。而為了找到回來(lái)的路，他必須得到失物之書(shū)……
About Author
John Connolly was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1968 and has, at various points in his life, worked as a journalist, a barman, a local government official, a waiter and a dogsbody at Harrods department store in London. His first novel, Every Dead Thing, was published in 1999, and introduced the character of Charlie Parker, a former policeman hunting the killer of his wife and daughter. The Book of Lost Things, published in September 2006, to be followed by the next Parker novel, The Unquiet, early in 2007.
約翰·康納利，1968年生于都柏林，犯罪小說(shuō)家。他曾做過(guò)很多職業(yè)，包括記者、酒保、公務(wù)員、服務(wù)生。他于1999年出版《Every Dead Thing》之后，即以警探Charlie Parker系列走紅英美文壇，更是紐約時(shí)報(bào)暢銷(xiāo)榜的常勝軍。2006年出版的《The Book of Lost Things》是獨(dú)立于Charlie Parker系列的作品。
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