MONSTERS
Book ID/图书代码： 13005415B84946
English Summary/英文概要： A blackly comic tale about two children you would never want to meet.
Set in the Cornish town of Fowey, all is not as idyllic as the beautiful seaside town might seem. The body of a young woman is discovered in the nets of a fishing boat. It is established that the woman was murdered. Most are shocked and horrified. But there is somebody who is not - a twelve-year-old girl. She is delighted; she loves murders. Soon she is questioning the inhabitants of the town in her own personal investigation. But it is a bit boring on her own. Then Miles Giffard, a similarly odd twelve-year-old boy, arrives in Fowey with his mother, and they start investigating together. Oh, and also playing games that re-enact the murders. Just for fun, you understand...
A book about two twelve-year-olds that is definitely not for kids.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一则略带黑色漫画色彩的故事，故事的主人公是两名你绝不会想认识的小孩。
故事发生在一个康沃尔小镇弗维宜，只不过并非一切都如同这个美丽的海滨小镇看上去那么的闲适。在一条渔船的渔网里发现了一具女性的尸体。现已基本认定为谋杀。镇上的人大多都对此感到震惊和恐慌。然而也有人不这么认为，比如一名12岁的小姑娘。她很开心，因为她喜欢谋杀案。很快她便开始了对小镇居民的私人调查和询问。然而她一个人做这些实在是有些无聊。直到迈尔斯•吉法德，一名和她一样古怪的12岁少年，和母亲一起搬到了弗维宜。两个孩子开始一同展开调查。噢，当然他们也会进行谋杀现场重演的游戏。虽然只是为了娱乐，大家都懂得……
虽然本书讲述了两名12岁孩子的故事，但却并不是给小孩看的哟。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：“这本怪奇小说的无名叙事者是一名父母在一次乘船事故中双亡的12岁女孩。‘别担心--我没有那么难过’，她不假思索的如是说道，也为本书奠定了一种疏离的情感基调。当她寄住的亲戚家的海滨小镇的海滩上出现了一具年轻女性的遇害尸体时，她对于死亡的异常执着和兴趣也自然表现了出来。她与一名同样‘不太正常’的少年成为了朋友，共同揭开凶手的神秘面纱。艾莫拉尔德•芬内尔融合了犀利的心理学视角与讽刺幽默，塑造出一部暗黑系现代童话。”---《每日邮报》
“……仿佛融合了凯莉和蓝胡子，又带有一丝龙纹身的女孩的影子，这部小说巧妙、现代并且十分新颖。这部冷酷无情并且最终毫无希望的故事不适合内心柔弱的读者。”--《金融时报》
"The unnamed narrator of this quirky novel is a 12-year-old girl whose parents died in a boating accident. ‘Don’t worry – I’m not that sad about it,’ she says off-handedly, setting a tone of emotional detachment that runs through the book. Her morbid fascination with death comes into its own when the body of a murdered young woman is brought ashore in the coastal town where she’s staying with relatives. She befriends an equally sociopathic teenage boy and together they set out to unmask the killer. Emerald Fennell combines sharp psychological insight with mordant humour to fashion a dark, contemporary fairy tale." -THE DAILY MAIL
"... a mash-up of Carrie and Bluebeard with a touch of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, is smart, modern and fresh. This savagely and ultimately bleak tale is not for the faint hearted." - THE FINANCIAL TIMES
About the Author/作者介绍： 艾莫拉尔德•芬内尔是一名作家兼演员，她曾在牛津大学学习英语语言文学，现居伦敦。艾莫拉尔德的首部童书小说SHIVERTON HALL (Bloomsbury 2013)曾入围2014年水石书店童书奖提名，其续篇THE CREEPER也随后问世。她还凭借在《赤子之心》（2010），《安娜•卡列尼娜》（2012）和《呼叫助产护士》（2014）等中所扮演的角色而为人所知。作者推特可关注：Twitter: @emeraldfennell
Emerald Fennell is a writer and actress, she studied English at Oxford University and lives in London. Emerald’s debut children’s novel SHIVERTON HALL (Bloomsbury 2013) was shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2014 and was followed by its sequel, THE CREEPER. She is also known for her roles in Any Human Heart (2010),Anna Karenina (2012) and Call the Midwife (2014). Follow Emerald on Twitter: @emeraldfennell
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