內容簡介
Strange changes are taking place in Village. Once a utopian community that prided itself on its welcome to new strangers, Village will soon be closed to all outsiders. As one of the few people able to travel through the dangerous Forest, Matty must deliver the message of Village's closing and try to convince Seer's daughter to return with him before it's too late. But Forest has become hostile to Matty as well, and he must risk everything to fight his way through it, armed only with an emerging power he cannot yet explain or understand.
作者簡介
Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After several years at Brown University, she turned to her family and to writing. She is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Ms. Lowry now divides her time between Cambridge and an 1840s farmhouse in Maine.
洛伊絲·勞裏,1937年3月齣生於夏威夷,父親在軍中擔任牙醫,他們一傢人也隨著軍隊遷移世界各地。二次大戰期間,她住在外祖父母位於賓州的老傢,十一歲到上高中之前,則在日本度過。後來她進布朗大學就讀,但隻修完兩年課程便結婚瞭,直到生完四個孩子後纔重拾學業,從南緬因大學畢業。
洛伊絲·勞裏的寫作生涯起步較晚,四十歲時纔嘗試完成小時候的夢想——當一名作傢。結果卻一鳴驚人,如今她不但是世界知名的作傢,還獲得兩次紐伯瑞金牌奬的肯定。除瞭寫作兒童小說、短篇故事,她也撰寫評論、專業的論文。
她的寫作素材非常廣泛,風格多樣,有生活幽默小說《阿納斯塔西亞 剋魯布尼剋》(Anastasia Krupnik)、談戰爭與屠殺的《數星星》(Numbm the stars)、描寫未來烏托邦社會的《記憶傳授人》(The Giver),此外還有涉及收養、精神疾病、癌癥等議題的二十多本著作,堪稱是一位多纔、多變的作傢。
精彩書評
"Lowry masterfully presents another thought-provoking, haunting tale in this third novel, a companion to The Giver and Gathering Blue."
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Publishers Weekly, Starred "Lowry moves far beyond message, writing with a beautiful simplicity rooted in political fable, in warm domestic detail, and in a wild natural world, just on the edge of realism."
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Booklist, ALA, Starred Review
"Told in simple, evocative prose, this companion to The Giver (1993) and Gathering Blue (2000) can stand on its own as a powerful tale of great beauty."
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Kirkus Reviews, Starred 前言/序言
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