BAREBACK

Book ID/图书代码： 00470005B10843

English Summary/英文概要： Biology is destiny. For those born feet-first, life is normal. Civil rights are enshrined in law, the world is a comfortable place, and every full moon night, you lock yourself in a secure room to fur up in peace. But for those born head-first, the damage done is more than just physical. For a non, locked in his or her human skin, is first and foremost a conscript, drafted at eighteen into DORLA, the Department for the Ongoing Regulation of Lycanthropic Activity. For a DORLA agent, insultingly referred to as a ’bareback’, full moon creates a battle zone, where they patrol the silent night in search of citizens breaking the curfew. The rest of the month is a civil service nightmare, mopping up the after-effects of the trespasses, the fights and the maulings. DORLA has lasted centuries, since the Inquisition first set it up, and it’s no less hated now than it was then. Lola Galley, twenty-eight and already a scarred veteran, is assigned to defend a curfew-breaker who mutilated a good friend of hers. She doesn’t want the case, but she’s used to doing things she doesn’t want. Only something happens: her maimed friend is murdered before her client can be tried. Lola wants justice. She’ll settle for the truth. But in a divided world, asking for the truth may bring answers that you don’t want to hear. Kit Whitfield has created a world that is wholly, unnervingly convincing. "Bareback" shows her to be a novelist of rare gifts and astonishing imagination.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 這是一個和我們的生活十分相似的世界，惟一的區別是人口的99%都是狼人，在月圓之夜，他們就變身成為嗜血如命、毫無理性的野獸。另外極少數的人，因為在胎兒時期腦部遭受微小的損傷而導致出生後無法變身，這些人被稱為「裸背」bareback，他們從小便要忍受人們異樣的眼光和社會的不公。主人公蘿拉DORLA是一個「裸背」，也是「狼變行為」即時監管部的工作人員，這個機構負責在月圓之夜捕捉那些違反法律在外面遊蕩的狼人。
蘿拉的一個朋友被一個變身的狼人時咬掉一隻手，不久又遭到槍殺，蘿拉在追查案件的時候自己也成為了暗殺的對象，社會的偏見、親人的疏遠、朋友的遠離、愛人的背叛，這些都讓蘿拉幾乎陷於絕望，而最後的真相完全出乎她的意料。(Vincent)

Awards/获奖情况：Film rights sold to Warner Bros with Graham King (Gangs of New York, The Aviator) to produce and Andrew Adamson (The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Shrek) to direct.

Rights sold:
China (Shanghai 99),
Denmark (Lindhardt & Ringhof),
Germany (Heyne),
Italy (Einaudi),
Japan (Kobunsha),
Lithuania (Media Incognito),
The Netherlands (Arena),
Russia (Tarna),
Spain (Ediciones B),
Sweden (Albert Bonniers),
UK (Jonathan Cape)
US (Random House).

’Fresh and beautiful . . . Take your time reading it . . . It puts you in that reading bubble, ever sought, not often found’ ---Scifantastic, 18th July 2006

’Lola is an outstandingly well-realized central character. We get right inside her head, feeling all her emotions vividly... splendidly entertaining’---Emerald City, 24th July 2006

Gritty and original… an interesting parable about social justice’---Rachel Hore, Guardian

"a stunning imaginative feat that immerses the reader in a dark, dangerous and entirely believable world"---Tina Jackson, METRO, 31st July 2006

About the Author/作者介绍： Kit Whitfield is a graduate of Christ’s College, Cambridge. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and now lives in London. Visit her website www.kitwhitfield.com
基特‧威特菲爾德（Kit Whitfield）畢業於牛津基督學院（Christ’s College, Cambridge），首部著作《月夜變身》（BAREBACK）一推出便一鳴驚人，目前該書的電影將由華納兄弟製作及紐西蘭新銳導演Andrew Adamson（納尼亞傳奇系列導演）負責執導。

Format:TRADE PAPERBACK

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

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