2008年英國衛報兒童小說獎和英國圖書信託基金會青少年得獎作品！
Winner of 2008 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize
Winner of The BookTrust Teenage Prize
Shortlisted for Carnegie Award, Branford Boase Shortlist
Rights sold:
Italian - RCS Libri; Spanish/World - Grupo Editorial SM; German - Ravensburger Buchverlag; French World - Gallimard Jeunesse; Israel - Kinneret-Zmora Bitan-Dvir Publ; Swedish - B. Wahlströms Bokförlag AB; Turkey - Tudem
Korean - Moonhak Soochup Publishing Co Ltd.
’[THE KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO] is challenging but not bleak - an excitingly different book.’---Julia Eccleshare - chair of judges for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2008
"THE KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO made the judges laugh, cry and debate its contents with passion...a striking mixture of thriller, science fiction and literary tour de force."---Amanda Craig - chair of judges for the BookTrust Prize 2008
’Sometimes you come across a children’s book of startling and poetic beauty: THE KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO by Patrick Ness is one such. It is brilliantly evocative, tough, unsentimental, and creates its own, convincing argot that hurls the reader right into its world...This amazing book will, I hope, become a staple of children’s literature, bravely dealing with loss, fear, and an adolescent’s burgeoning sense of self, whilst being at the same time enormously compelling.’---The Literary Review
’Ness is a young writer of exciting quality and unpredictability.’---The Times
’One of the best first sentences i’ve ever read and a book that lives up to it!...you’d only have to read the first sentence to see how fantastic it promises to be: "The first thing you find out when your dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say."’---Frank Cottrell Boyce, author of Cosmic
’...a contemporary fable about information overload for sophisticated readers.’---The Irish Independent on Sunday
’THE KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO is an impossibly good novel. It is at once endearing yet unsentimental; compassionate yet damning; exhaustingly exhilarating and yet tempered by a staid and considered emotivity. Written in the first-person present tense in an unapologetically impudent manner, this novel captures exceptionally the brash bravado and the underlying insecurities that actively teem inside the minds and explode in the actions of boys on their path to manhood. Although this is a book aimed at children, it will find older fans too, for Ness here touches upon something cogent and universal. Having a young target audience does not affect the fact that he deserves to be recognised as one of literature’s great raconteurs.’---www.inthenews.co.uk
’Todd’s world is filled with memorable characters, foul villains and agreeably high levels of violence.’--The Financial Times
’THE KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO is well thought out, it’s tense and exciting, it’s original, and it has welcome dollops of wry humour, some of which made me laugh out loud.’---thebookbag.co.uk