THE GOOD THIEF: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 12844008B23788

English Summary/英文概要： THE GOOD THIEF is set in America in the early 1900’s. Ren, an orphan with only one arm, is unlikely to ever find adoptive parents. But out of the blue a man called Benjamin, claiming to be his brother, rescues him from the orphanage. Benjamin is a "resurrection man," he runs a gang that digs up bodies for sale to the local medical school.

Ren is put to work; finds a home of sorts with a deaf and VERY LOUD landlady; gets to know a man who seemingly came back from the dead; and tries to establish why a midget comes down the chimney of their home each night. He has no memory of how he lost his arm, and Benjamin tells him contradictory stories about how it was amputated - it appears that Benjamin holds the key to his past, if, that is, they really are brothers.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 失去左手、年僅12歲的Ren，從小被遺棄，孤寂自卑的他一直想解開自己的身世之迷，他最大的希望就是能有家庭的溫暖，但是看著一起在孤兒院的同伴一一被人領養，他害起怕來有一天自己只能獨自生活。
終於，有個自稱是他失散多年兄長的出現，為他帶來希望，帶他離開孤兒院。Benjamin的身份其實是盜墓人，他偷取別人的屍體，賣給醫療中心作研究，而Ren也被迫做相同的工作，開始跟一些騙子、盜賊生活一起。
漸漸的Ren質疑起離開孤兒院後的生活，要是繼續留下就會成為這些人的一份子，要是選擇離開，他會再次失去朋友，而Benjamin似乎握有Ren的身世秘密。Ren的家人為何棄養他? 為何他會失去左手? Benjamin真的是他的親哥哥嗎?(Chris)

Awards/获奖情况：Spanish/World - Editorial Anagrama Portuguese/Portugal only - ASA Editores, S.A. Dutch - Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij Swedish - Albert Bonniers Forlag AB Italian - Giulio Einaudi Editore spa Catalan - Editorial Empuries/Grup 62 French World - Editions Gallimard German - Luchterhand Literaturverlag Portuguese/Brazil only - Editora Rocco Ltda. Slovenia - Studentska zalozba
朱諾．迪亞茲(2008普立茲獎得主) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao版權已售“Hannah Tinti has written a lighting strike of a novel—beautiful and haunting and ever so bright. She is a 21st century Robert Louis Stevenson, an adventuress who lays bare her characters’ hearts with a precision and a fearlessness that will leave you shaken."---Junot Diaz, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
伊莉莎白．吉兒伯特《享受吧一個人的旅行》"Every once in a while -- if you are very lucky -- you come upon a novel so marvelous and enchanting and rare that you wish everyone in the world would read it, as well. THE GOOD THIEF is just such a book -- a beautifully composed work of literary magic. That masterpieces don’t come along very often only makes it more wonderful to experience."---Elizabeth Gilbert, Bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love
丹尼爾．華勒斯 - 電影 『大智若魚』暢銷原著作者"THE GOOD THIEF is a magical book. Everything worth writing about is in it: love, death and—more than anything else—family. I wish I’d written it.”---Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish and Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician
卡爾‧艾格納瑪 -《心靈詭計》“THE GOOD THIEF is a dark, Dickensian fable filled with enough surprises to keep a reader turning pages long past midnight. Irresistibly strange, and just plain irresistible.”---Karl Iagnemma, author of The Expeditions
凱特·沃爾伯特 -《吾以類聚》"Wildly inventive and surprising, Hannah Tinti’s extraordinary first novel stands in a class with Geek Love and The World According to Garp."---Kate Walbert, National Book Award finalist and author of Our Kind and The Gardens of Kyoto
"THE GOOD THIEF is a book that deserves comparison to the work of classic authors like Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Dickens--not only because it’s a remarkable piece of work, but also because it reminded me of what it used to be like, when I was a kid, to be truly engrossed in a book. You lift your head and hours have passed, and you realize that you’ve been utterly drawn into a world that is as vivid and real as your own. A masterful achievement." ---Dan Chaon, National Book Award finalist and author of Among the Missing and You Remind Me of Me
“Hannah Tinti writes with uncommon grace and stunning insight. Her quirky tribe of outcasts will break into your dreams and steal your spirit. Surrender to them! Let your heart be broken! Only then will you know the tender thrill of their wild companionship.”---Melanie Rae Thon, author of Iona Moon and First, Body
“Hannah Tinti’s novel THE GOOD THIEF is wry, wise, deeply felt and ingeniously plotted, a wonderful, riveting spin on the tale of abandoned boys gone bad, or good, or both. Move over Huck Finn and Oliver Twist, make room for Ren, The Good Thief’s one-handed but quick-fingered and witted orphan, thief, hero—I loved him, and his book.” ---Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England
"Think Hawthorne crossed with George Romero, or Twain with Stephen King. By turns grisly, comic, and tender, THE GOOD THIEF is a great, great novel." ---Justin Cronin, Pen-Hemingway award winner and author of Mary and O’Neill and The Summer Guest
"This wonderfully old-fashioned novel, rendered with great heart and imagination, demonstrates that Hannah Tinti’s talents are as awe-inspiring as the story she tells. Tinti is a formidable writer, and THE GOOD THIEF is a stay-up-all-night sort of read."---Brady Udall, author of The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

About the Author/作者介绍： Hannah Tinti grew up in Salem, Massachusetts. Her stories, including the acclaimed collection ANIMAL CRACKERS, has made her one of America’s most promising young writers, and this, her first novel, has been hotly anticipated. She is the editor of the multiple award-winning One Story magazine and lives in New York.
Hannah Tinti生長於英國，她出版的第一本短篇故事集《ANIMAL CRACKERS》版權售出16國 (繁體已售)，而這本書也獲得美國筆會／海明威獎（The PEN／Hemingway Award）的肯定。Hannah也是知名獲獎雜誌 One Story magazine的編輯，The Good Thief是她創作的第一本長篇小說，隨即獲得各界期待矚目。作者網站http://www.hannahtinti.com/index.html

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