BETWEEN US
Book ID/图书代码： 01899519C00004
English Summary/英文概要： Between Us is the story of two teenagers – Jono and Anahita – falling in love for the first time. There’s just one thing standing between them: twenty kilometres of barbed wire fence. Anahita lives in the Wickham Point Immigration Detention Centre, where asylum seekers are detained while they wait to be ‘processed’ by the Australian government.
The two teenagers meet at Darwin High School. Anahita travels from Wickham Point to school each day, passing through metal detectors, checkpoints and enduring multiple roll calls on the detention centre bus. Jono has no idea about any of this. All he knows is that there’s a beautiful new girl with dark eyes, who keeps looking over in his direction ... is it possible she likes him?
Between Us is a playful and bittersweet novel about starting a new romance with someone whose life circumstances are miles from yours. Jono is athletic, musical and self-assured. He sees himself as 100% Australian, despite his Vietnamese heritage. He’s had girls keen on him before and hasn’t been interested ... but Anahita is different. He doesn’t know that she lives in a three by three metre room with her mother, and shares a bunk bed with her younger brother. He doesn’t know that she has to participate in activities to earn credits to buy a phone card to call him for half an hour. Or that she’s allocated an hour of internet time a day, with guards patrolling behind her to make sure she’s only doing homework. And she doesn’t want to tell him either. She wants to try to maintain the feeling of having something special, something secret, between them. It’s one area of her life in which she can pretend to be relatively normal ... but for how long?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 兩個成長經驗和語言文化都截然不同的少年和少女，有可能橫跨他們之間的圍籬和政治現實而相愛嗎？
來自得獎暢銷小說Nona & Me的作者，最新少年小說作品，關於兩個被文化差異、父母的期望以及二十公里的圍欄所阻隔的故事。
Ana是一個充滿熱情、好奇以及毅力的少女，她同時也是一個正在尋求庇護的伊朗難民，只有在去上學的時候才被允許走出拘留所。在平日的時候，在學校裡的幾個小時，她才可以當一個「一般的澳洲女孩」。
Jono是一個父母離異的越南裔少年，幾年前他的母親離家出走，接著是他的姊姊，於是他感覺自己像是被遺棄了一樣，跟他孤零零的越南父親Kenny在一起。
Kenny正在努力適應他新工作的各種規定，不久前他找到了在維克漢姆角拘留中心擔任警衛的工作。他告訴Ana可以在學校跟他的兒子Jono做朋友，但他很快後悔了這麼說，他陷入懷疑和不信任。這個女孩到底是誰？她是一個真正的難民？還是一個非法移民？隨著Jono和Ana感情越來越好，Kenny也開始在暗中窺探...
這本小說來自澳洲得獎作家Clare Atkins，她的父親是越南人，而她的母親是澳洲人，因此她從小就成長在截然不同的兩種文化中，但也正是這種經驗使得她想去探索這個議題。故事的少年Jono和少女Ana也有著這樣的跨文化的背景，Jono是越南移民的兒子，他將自己看作是一個完全的澳洲人，而Ana則處於兩種文化的邊緣地帶，她既非真正在澳洲這塊土地上生活，也無法擺脫她對於伊朗的記憶。作者Clare Atkins二十幾歲時曾在拘留中心擔任兒童輔導志工，從她的上一代移民到澳洲之後，澳洲對於移民的政策歷經許多變動，而至今對待難民和移民的法律仍然十分不友善，甚至曾規定任何拘留中心的工作人員須對中心內的所見所聞保密，這使得許多當中不人道的對待無法被披露。透過這本小說，她希望可以吸引更多人對於這個議題的重視。
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Awards/获奖情况：2020國際少年兒童讀物聯盟澳洲寫作榮譽獎
2019澳大利亞兒童圖書理事會(CBCA)年度最佳圖書獎得主
2019澳大利亞兒童圖書理事會(CBCA)年度傑出圖書
2019年維多利亞總督文學獎-青少年小說類-決選入圍
2019年新南威爾斯總督文學獎決選入圍
2019年澳洲總理文學獎決選入圍
2019年澳洲圖書產業獎入圍
2018青少年圖書獎決選入圍
「一個及時、吸引人、傑出的愛情故事，屬於我們這個時代。」
──Alice Pung，澳洲作家
「一個美麗的、生動的、切合時事的故事。」
──澳洲作家，普林玆文學獎得主
「一本傑出且有力之作。感人且深刻。」
──Joe Murray，青少年讀書會組織The Readings Teen Advisory Board
「這是一個關於內心世界、感受、感情以及那些我們能夠控制和不能控制的事物的故事。非常寫實且吸引人，以同情和洞見處理一些重要的大議題。」
──Books+Publishing
「當我讀完這本書時我幾乎說不出話來。我對它引起的強烈情緒反應沒有心理準備，這些感受是這麼強烈，因為這跟會影響成千上萬無辜人們的議題深深結合在一起。」
──Kirrily Ireland，青少年讀書會組織The Readings Teen Advisory Board
You may recall that I recently asked you to remove our award-winning young adult novel, Between Us by Clare Atkins, from submission. However, after the successful sale of the Traditional Chinese rights, the author has agreed to extend the term of our translation rights. Please do share the exciting news of Eastern Publishing Company’s acquisition with your YA clients.
About the Author/作者介绍： 克萊爾·阿特金斯（Clare Atkins）的首本小說《諾娜與我》（Nona＆Me）贏得了2016年澳洲北領地文學大獎，並入圍了2015年澳大利亞兒童圖書委員會獎決選，以及了2015年Inky獎，並獲得了2015年維多利亞總督文學獎。她曾在許多成功的電視連續劇中擔任編劇，包括All Saints和Home and Away。
關於本書的作者專訪:
https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/news/between-us-qa-clare-atkins-loveozya
Clare Atkins has worked as a scriptwriter for many successful television series including All Saints, Home and Away, Winners and Losers and Wonderland. Nona and Me is her first book, which she wrote while living in Arnhem Land.
Format:HARDCOVER
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
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