THE COMPOUND

Book ID/图书代码： 08900007B18669

English Summary/英文概要： Eli and his family have lived in the underground Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone, and they’ve become accustomed to their new life. Accustomed, but not happy. No amount of luxury can stifle the dull routine of living in the same place, with only his two sisters, only his father and mother, doing the same thing day after day after day. As problems with their carefully planned existence threaten to destroy their sanctuary—and their sanity—Eli can’t help but wonder if he’d rather take his chances outside. Eli’s father built the Compound to keep them safe. But are they safe—really?

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一次核战争爆发的晚上，九岁的伊犁被父亲紧急送进了综化所（Compound）——他父亲研制的地下防核所里，在意外中，伊犁的胞胎弟弟埃迪和他祖母被留在了那道只有他父亲才能开启的门外。六年之后，一次偶然的上网，让伊犁忽然意识到，他父亲一直把他们与外面的世界隔绝，那一次的核战争并没有让世界毁灭。他也一直困惑，为什么他母亲一直在生小孩，为什么他父亲一直关在书房里，为什么物资开始贫乏。这个时候的伊犁已经从一个懵懂的孩子长成了一个关心他人的少年，他决定，他要起来保护家族。通过一个家庭如何在危机中保存下来的故事，本书在心理和道德的层面上生动地跟我们探讨了一个严肃的话题——生存。

Awards/获奖情况：Ever since their world was destroyed by a nuclear attack, 15-year-old Eli and his family have lived in the Compound, a state-of-the-art bomb shelter built by his billionaire father. Despite having every comfort, Eli is haunted by the fact that his twin and his grandmother were left behind. He also begins to question his father’s sanity after an inventory miscalculation threatens their survival and his dad hatches a morally corrupt plan to “enhance their food supply.” Eli’s worst suspicions are confirmed when he discovers a live Internet signal using an old laptop. Did the world really end six years ago? Why else would Eli’s father want to keep his family underground? Debut novelist Bodeen effectively builds the claustrophobic suspense with each chapter as readers slowly discover the Compound is not the refuge it seems. Combining elements of Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Running Out of Time (1995) and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), published for adults, this post-apocalyptic thriller will also pique the interest of Nancy Werlin and L.J. Adlington fans.---Booklist

A teen questions the world his father has created and finds some shocking answers. Fifteen-year-old Eli and his family live in the Compound, a state-of-the-art underground shelter designed by their billionaire father to withstand a nuclear attack and protect them for the "next fifteen years in luxurious comfort." After six years of isolation, Eli still thinks about his twin brother Eddy and his grandmother, who were "accidentally" left behind the fateful night his father herded everyone else into the Compound and locked the door. Eli wonders why his mother keeps producing children, why his father stays in his locked study and why certain supplies are running out. When Eli unexpectedly connects to the Internet, he discovers his father has sealed them away from the real world. As his awareness of reality grows, Eli matures from a callow kid into a caring person who knows it’s up to him to save his family. Suspenseful and riveting, this debut novel raises serious issues about what it means to survive. (Fiction. 12+)---Kirkus Reviews

When Eli was nine, his autocratic billionaire father led his family into the Compound, an extravagant underground bunker built to protect them against nuclear war. After receiving word that a strike had been launched, they had forty minutes to get inside and lock the door behind them (a door only Eli’s father can open again). In the chaos, Eli’s twin Eddy was left behind, and Eli, the self-identified “evil twin,” spends the next six years in bitter guilt and loneliness. Now fifteen and worried about the dwindling food supply and his father’s disquieting plans for supplementing it, he begins to question the one constant of his restricted existence: is the outside world really gone? To follow the clues, he must work through not just his father’s suspicious habits but his own selfish, even cruel, tendencies. Bodeen’s straightforward, action-packed writing conveys through apt detail the Compound environment—physical and emotional—and its subtly debilitative effects. As the plot builds from unease to intrigue to outright peril, Eli believably and satisfyingly grows from a spoiled, disturbed bully to the persuasive and empathetic (if still disturbed) man of the family. Taking full advantage of a unique premise, this tense portrait of a family in crisis probes the psychological and moral costs of survival.---The Horn Book

About the Author/作者介绍： S.A. Bodeen is the author of several acclaimed picture books, including Elizabeti’s Doll, winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award. A native of Wisconsin, she and her husband, both Peace Corps workers, along with their two daughters, have traveled the world. Most recently, Stephanie lived in the Pacific Northwest, where she wrote The Compound and taught fiction workshops for adult education programs. Her next book, The Gardener, will be available from Feiwel and Friends in 2010.

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