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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.
这是一个关于失去，也是关于失而复得的故事。十二岁的小男孩失去了他的母亲，当他坐在悲伤的黑暗里，陪伴他给他慰藉的只有母亲生前最爱的故事书。她总是告诉自己，故事拥有生命，当他们被阅读被朗诵，他们就从另一个世界里活了过来。
如同母亲所说，当他开始翻阅那些书籍，故事们开始从另外一个世界跨了过来，现实与想象的世界逐渐交错难分，终于，他被迫进入了一个与故事相似，却充满了恐怖怪兽的世界里。而为了找到回来的路，他必须得到失物之书……
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.
约翰·康纳利，1968年生于都柏林，犯罪小说家。他曾做过很多职业，包括记者、酒保、公务员、服务生。他于1999年出版《Every Dead Thing》之后，即以警探Charlie Parker系列走红英美文坛，更是纽约时报畅销榜的常胜军。2006年出版的《The Book of Lost Things》是独立于Charlie Parker系列的作品。
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