THE SHADOW CATCHER
Book ID/图书代码： 13160005B05017
English Summary/英文概要： ’Eden - it’s where your life began, Madeleine. It’s a place where the current of life runs stronger than anywhere else. In Eden the sun shines more fiercely, the rain strikes harder, and the trees are so green that it hurts your eyes. Eden is beauty and ugliness and joy and madness and decay. Beneath the great old silk-cotton tree, where the orchids and lianas hang right down to the ground, and the fireflies glitter like spangles from dusk till dawn...’ Madeleine is left to bring up her younger sister in a remote cottage on the west coast of Scotland after her mother, Rose, has died in childbirth. Tainted by the discovery that she is illegitimate, Madeleine is plunged into poverty in London before marrying out of desperation a wealthy cousin of her father’s, who does not know her true identity. And thus she comes to live at the old family estate of Eden in the hills of Jamaica, often talked about by her mother - a beautiful, decaying house with its overgrown garden, lush sugar plantation and myriads of secrets. Rose had loved Eden more than anything, and now Madeleine has to take her place there.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 對瑪德蓮來說，艾頓莊園是她生命的開始，在這裡生活條件比外在其他地方都優渥多，連陽光都比較耀眼，雨也下的比較猛烈；而樹木亮綠到要將人們的眼睛給刺痛。在老木棉樹之下，蘭花以及藤蔓披垂於地面；黃昏時刻，螢火蟲閃爍其中，彷彿裝飾品般點綴著。
母親蘿絲早逝，瑪德蓮在蘇格蘭西岸的一幢小屋獨立撫養著他的妹妹。隱藏著自己為艾頓家的私生女身分，瑪德蓮不顧一切嫁給親生父親的有錢遠房親戚，除了想擺脫過去貧窮的日子，也是為了回到母親以往居住之地 ---位於牙買加某山丘上的艾頓莊園家族生活中，為母親實現夢想。
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Danish (Borgen), Dutch (Unieboek), French (Belfond), German (Heyne), Greek (Oceanida), Latvian (Kontinents), Russian (Mir Knigi), Serbian (Narodna Knjiga-Alfa), Swedish (Richters)
媒體推薦:
‘A richly atmospheric book, full of menacing secrets and betrayal’ Sunday Mirror
‘Epic…fully immerses the reader’ Good Housekeeping
‘A glorious, compulsive period read…laced in magic, it fair zings along. I love it…Quite splendid.’ The Bookseller
‘A powerful and richly atmospheric novel, with strong characters and a glorious setting.’ Family Circle
About the Author/作者介绍： Michelle Paver於1960年出生在中非東南部的尼亞薩島（即現在的馬拉威），父母都曾任職於出版業，她在三歲的時候全家搬到英國，從此在溫布頓定居。牛津大學生物化學系畢業之後，在倫敦當了十幾年的律師，期間寫過幾本愛情小說，相當受到書市的歡迎。同時也是兒童文學作家，暢銷全球的《狼兄弟》(台灣由尖端出版社取得版權)便是其中之一，創下英國兒童讀物出版史上處女作稿酬最高紀錄。資料來源:
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