THE SLAVE DANCER

Book ID/图书代码： 07900006B09766

English Summary/英文概要： Jessie Bollier often played his fife to earn a few pennies down by the New Orleans docks. One afternoon a sailor asked him to pipe a tune, and that evening Jessie was kidnapped and dumped aboard The Moonlight, a slave ship, where a hateful duty awaited him. He was to play music so the slaves could "dance" to keep their muscles strong, their bodies profitable. Jessie was sickened by the thought of taking part in the business of trading rum and tobacco for blacks and then selling the ones who survived the frightful sea voyage from Africa. But to the men of the ship a "slave dancer" was necessary to ensure their share of the profit. They did not heed the horrors that every day grew more vivid, more inescapable to Jessie. Yet , even after four months of fear, calculated torture, and hazardous sailing with a degraded crew, Jessie was to face a final horror that would stay with him for the rest of his life.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本書以其感人至深的內容贏得了紐伯瑞兒童文學獎。故事的主人公叫做Jessie，在新奧爾良的碼頭以吹橫笛謀生。可是突然有一天，Jessie被綁架到一艘奴隸船上，負責給奴隸吹奏橫笛，使他們不斷跳舞以鍛煉肌肉。一場恐怖的逃生之戰就此展開……（XMM）

Awards/获奖情况：“福克斯精心編織了一個引人入勝的故事，充滿懸念和求生的欲望，令讀者既恐懼不安又為之著迷。”
"Fox has woven a spellbinding tale of suspense and survival that will horrify as well as fascinate..."-- Library Journal

“本書講述了歷史上最陰森可怕的一段，福克斯以其生動的散文寫作方式揭露了販隸過程中的暴力活動，非人道的生存條件以及人類本質中的獸性等，故事感人至深，真實可靠。”
"A story that movingly and realistically presents one of the most gruesome chapters of history, with all the violence, inhuman conditions, and bestial aspects of human nature -- exposed but never exploited in Fox’s graphic, documentary prose."—Booklist

About the Author/作者介绍： 保拉.福克斯於1923年4月22號出生於美國紐約市。她的父母均是作家。1948年，保拉嫁給了Richard Sigerson，並育有三個孩子。兩人結婚6年後以離婚而告終。1962年，作者再嫁。
福克斯少兒時代就熱愛上閱讀。由於父親身為作家需要四處奔波，保拉在眾多地方定居過，例如紐約，家裡福利亞以及古巴。經管作者學業生涯屢經多次轉校，她依然能夠說一口流利的西班牙語，並且讀了大量作品。在1955-1988年間，作者回到紐約，並進入哥倫比亞大學學習。可是，由於經濟問題，作者無法取得學位。在從事多種職業以後，保拉終於可以在一家寫作講習班擔任老師，並成為賓夕法利亞大學費城分校的文學教授。

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