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Book Description:
Nineteen-year-old cabbie Ed Kennedy has little in life to be proud of: his dad died of alcoholism, and he and his mom have few prospects for success. He has little to do except share a run-down apartment with his faithful yet smelly dog, drive his taxi, and play cards and drink with his amiable yet similarly washed-up friends. Then, after he stops a bank robbery, Ed begins receiving anonymous messages marked in code on playing cards in the mail, and almost immediately his life begins to swerve off its beaten-down path. Usually the messages instruct him to be at a certain address at a certain time. So with nothing to lose, Ed embarks on a series of missions as random as a toss of dice: sometimes daredevil, sometimes heartwarmingly safe. He rescues a woman from nightly rape by her husband. He brings a congregation to an abandoned parish. The ease with which he achieves results vacillates between facile and dangerous, and Ed's search for meaning drives him to complete every task. But the true driving force behind the novel itself is readers' knowledge that behind every turn looms the unknown presence - either good or evil - of the person or persons sending the messages.
中文简介：
故事描述一位十九岁的青年艾德，一事无成，以开计程车为生，平日养着一条臭气熏天的牧羊犬，和几个狐朋狗友喝酒打牌，生活平淡了无生趣。然而这种平淡的生活，却被一起银行抢劫事件打破。艾德意外制服了劫匪，后来还接受记者采访，甚至上了报纸头条，艾德的人生从此改观。有人寄了张扑克牌给他，上面留有地址和时间，艾德虽然满腹疑惑，还是照着指示，一一完成任务。在纸牌的指引下，艾德马不停蹄地帮助别人，以独特的方式给需要温暖和爱的人们送去一番心意。他不仅救了别人，也拯救了自己，只是，隐身在这些使命背后的神秘人物究竟是谁？看似悬疑的情节铺陈，朱萨克以其妙笔，呈现出一段充满爱、欢笑与悬疑的神秘生命之旅。
About Author:
Markus Zusak (born in 1975 in Sydney) is an Australian author. He is the son of an Austrian father and German mother and he is the youngest of four children.Zusak is best known for his teen novels, I Am The Messenger and The Book Thief. These have been very successful in Australia and internationally, and have sold more copies and received more publicity and critical acclaim than his other novels.
因《偷书贼》一书为读者所熟悉的澳洲作家马格斯．朱萨克，1975年生于悉尼，父母分别为奥地利及德国后裔。他被誉为当代澳洲小说界获奖最多、著作最丰富、读者群最广的作家。朱萨克从小喜欢写故事，他说自己的脑海中永远有好几个故事在打转。《偷书贼》就源自他幼年时父母讲述的情节。而父母所讲述的情节场景也成为他创作的源泉，造就了一个令人感动的故事。
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