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English Summary/英文概要: At birth the seven children have only two things in common: They all come into the world in Maternity Ward B at the National Hospital in Copenhagen, and they are all given up for adoption. In the following months, the women who run Kongslund, the famed orphanage, find new families for the children in different parts of Denmark. They grow up without the slightest clue about their past.
Many years later an anonymous letter is sent to a down-and-out journalist at a failing newspaper. The letter reveals that one of the seven children carries a secret, and someone has done everything possible to keep that secret hidden.
When the story is made public, it brings explosive consequences. Could it be that for the past fifty years the prestigious orphanage has been covering up the love affairs of wealthy and famous Danes, hiding scandalous liaisons that took place at the highest levels of society?
The seven adopted children, now adults, are swept up in the search to uncover their past. At the same time, they are desperately trying to figure out which of them is the seventh child, and what could be the nature of the secret that person holds.
The Seventh Child is the story of how this mystery is unraveled — and about the bond between the seven children, whose lives end up inextricably linked during the decades when the social welfare system was established in Denmark, from the 1960s until the present.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 丹麥哥本哈根的國立醫院裡有著身世背景不明,但確有同樣出生經驗的七個孩子,他們都是從醫院的B產房來到這世間,並被送往當地頗知名的孤兒院,之後不久他們分別被領養,分散到丹麥各處,而就在出身不明的情況下長大。
許多年過後,一封匿名信寄到一名記者手上,當時他所在的報社正面臨倒閉的危機,而這封信如同最後的強心針,因為信上正揭露著當年這七位孩子中某位孩子的秘密,以及某人不斷的試圖隱藏一個更大的秘密,可想而知當新聞一見報就造成極大震撼…
而當年的七位孩子現已成年,他們也開始試圖尋找自己的過去及身世,並找出誰是那位報上揭露帶有不可告人秘密的孩子?還有究竟有什麼更大的秘密等著他們?
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Blanvalet/Germany;Schibsted/Norway;De Bezige Bij/Holland;Corpus/Russia;Maeva/Spain;Draumsyn/Iceland;Forum AB/Sweden;Amazon Crossing/USA
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