THE BOOK OF DEAD DAYS
Book ID/图书代码： 10000004B04756
English Summary/英文概要： The days between 27 December and New Year’s Eve are dead days - days when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our everyday lives. There is a man, Valerian, whose time is running out, who must pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. His servant is Boy, a child with no name and no past; a child he treats with contempt, but who serves his master well and finds solace in the company of his only friend, Willow. Unknown to any of them it is Boy who holds the key to their destiny. Set in dark threatening cities and the frozen countryside in a distant time and place of the author’s making, ’The Book of Dead Days’ conjures a spell-binding story of sorcery and desperate magic as Valerian, Boy and Willow battle to stop time and cling to life. Beautifully evoked, dramatic and emotionally powerful, this is a real page turner.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 圣诞节到新年前夕是休假的日子，精灵在空中游弋，魔法在生活表层底下不断变换。在这样的日子里，有许多事情在发生着……
有一个叫Valerian的魔法师必须拯救自己的性命，否则他就得为多年前与魔鬼之间的协定付出代价。但是，他的魔法巫术却无法与一路追杀的敌人相抗衡。
"Boy"是Valerian的仆从,也是帮助他的人。在某个古旧的教堂里，Valerian从藏身处跌落下来，这时Boy出现了，Boy是命运之神赐予Valerian的,不知名字，更无来历。
午夜，两人穷途末路，挖地道却钻进了一个伸手不见五指的地下城市，这将是一个无处逃离的惊险旅程。与他们一道的，还有机警过人的Willow。大伙儿谁也不会想到，自己的命运全系在Boy身上，而Boy的种种发现将会让读者惊讶不已。
故事发生地是黑漆一片、危机四伏的城市，以及天寒地冻、时空久远的乡村。情节引人入胜，戏剧性强。
小说《BOOK OF DEAD DAYS》进入英国卫报儿童小说奖初选名单。
Awards/获奖情况：
About the Author/作者介绍： Marcus Sedgwick 1994起开始写作，他的第一本书《水域星球》（Floodland）获得了Brandfoard Boase Award. 小说《黑马》（The Dark Horse）曾入围2002年卫报儿童图书奖。
有最新消息说，作者今年还因《THE DARK HORSE》一书成为卡耐基奖侯选者。
2003年，获得了奥瑞恩童书奖提名（Orion Children’s list）。
主要作品：
The Dark Horse (2001) 黑马
Floodland (2001) 水域星球
Witch Hill (2001) 巫山
Cowards (2003) 懦夫
Book of Dead Days (2003)
作者平时喜欢木雕，石刻。曾亲自为 Floodland, Witch Hill，Dark Horse做插图。
Marcus Sedgwick has worked in children’s publishing for ten years and before that he was a bookseller. He is also a stone carver and wood engraver and illustrates all his novels.
His first book Floodland was hailed as ’a dazzling debut from a new writer of exceptional talent’. Floodland won the Branford Boase Award for the best first children’s novel of 2000.
Marcus Sedgwick lives in Sussex and has a young daughter, Alice.
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