THE SHOEBOX BIBLE
Book ID/图书代码： 12760006B04501
English Summary/英文概要： A beautifully written memoir of a family whose mother stores hope in a shoebox.
As a child, during the cold, dark winter days of the Second World War, the author found hidden beneath a floorboard in his mother’s bedroom closet a well-worn cardboard shoebox.
At the time he could make little sense of the ragtag things he found inside: cigarette packages, soup-can labels, handbills, calendars, paper bags, pie boxes — any scrap of paper upon which his mother could copy out, in her old-fashioned handwriting, what seemed to be no more than unrelated snippets of Scripture.
He knew only that the box, which he would later come to think of as the Shoebox Bible, had something to do with the fact that his father had run away from home. Many years would pass, and his mother would be on her deathbed before he would once again hold this treasure in his hands. And only then would he put together the pieces of the puzzle, and learn the complete truth.
Beautifully and lovingly told, The Shoebox Bible is a wonderful memoir of a precocious family who manage to live and love despite the absence of their father.
Interspersed with heartbreaking quotations from the Old and New Testaments, this sad, funny, and above all inspiring story will appeal to readers who fell in love with such inspirational books as Tuesdays with Morrie and Mister God, This Is Anna.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 二戰時的作者還是個小孩子，在一個寒冷、黑暗的冬季，他在母親臥室壁櫥的地板下，發現了一個陳舊的紙板鞋盒。當時看起來，裡面藏的都是些不起眼的平常物品：香煙盒，湯罐標籤，廣告單，日曆，紙袋，餅乾盒……
他的母親用任何能找到得紙張，用她老式的筆跡記錄著過去發生的事情。一片片紙片上記錄的只是日常的片段，拼湊起來也只是日常的大概。
多年後，母親在臨終前再次將這只珍貴的協和交到他手中，此時，他把所有的紙片整理拼湊起來，過去的種種謎團才解開。比如，他發現紙盒裡的片段記錄著父親離家出走的一段事實。自此，他將這個紙盒視作《Shoebox Bible/鞋盒聖經》。
此書將新約和舊約中的引語穿插在一個單親家庭，面對生活的艱難和戰爭的無情，如何堅強得存活下來的故事。它激勵著每個人面對困難展開最燦爛的微笑。（Celia）
Awards/获奖情况：“艾倫•布蘭得利給我們奉上一部溫柔、美得讓人動心的回憶錄。你定會為其動容。”
——《The Pagan Christ》的作者Tom Harpur
“《鞋盒聖經》簡單、迷人、是一部觸動你心弦的回憶錄。你能從中獲取更多，它可以被列為最佳非小說的候選”
——《歐文桑德太陽時報》
“與《安吉拉的煙灰》相似，《鞋盒聖經》是一部動人心靈的回憶錄，讓人難忘。”
——《A Child Called “It”》的作者Dave Pelzer
About the Author/作者介绍： 艾倫•布蘭得利的短篇偵探故事、兒童讀物暢銷全球。最富盛名的Flavia de Luce神秘故事系列已在全球35個國家和地區銷售，現已經銷售50萬冊。此系列的第一部《The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie/餡餅的秘密》獲得了2007年犯罪小說協會新人匕首獎。他和威廉•沙真博士（Dr. William A.S. Sarjeant）合著的《Ms Holmes of Baker Street/貝克街的福爾摩斯小姐》曾在全球引起軒然大波。回憶錄《The Shoebox Bible/鞋盒聖經》（McClelland和Stewart,2006年）一直與《Tuesdays With Morrie /相約星期二》和《Mr. God, This is Anna/親愛的上帝，這是安娜》相提並論。
Alan Bradley is the internationally bestselling author of short stories, children’s stories, newspaper columns, and the memoir The Shoebox Bible. The Flavia de Luce mystery series has been sold in 35 territories and has sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide. The books have been bestsellers in Canada, the USA, Germany, Spain, Mainland China, Taiwan, Israel, and Holland, appearing on bestseller lists in The New York Times – where the first two books appeared simultaneously – and Der Spiegel – for four months. His groundbreaking biography of Sherlock Holmes, Ms. Holmes of Baker Street — co-written with the late scholar Dr. William A.S. Sarjeant (“Antony Swithin,” of The Perilous Quest for Lyonesse fame) — raised hackles and banners “round the world.”Web: http://alanbradleyauthor.com/
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