CROWN OF ACORNS
Book ID/图书代码: 13027110B34886
English Summary/英文概要: A teenage girl with a past arrives in a city: new name, new identity, new foster family. She has chosen the city herself, and is fascinated by its harmony and beauty, but is clearly in fear of being discovered. She is nursing a secret from her early childhood, a secret that produces new terrors for her the moment she fears her identity has been spotted.
A parallel narrative is that of a young architect’s apprentice, Zak, in 1750 – working with Jonathan Forrest, a man obsessed with past Druidic mysteries, and with a new architectural vision for the city. He plans to create the world’s first circular terraced street, the King’s Circus - a plan greeted with scorn and derision. But Zac soon realises there’s more than just an obsession with an architectural vision; some secret associated with the building of a hidden chamber in the centre of the Circus. But Zac himself has his own confused and highly destructive agenda ...
These narratives are framed by the voice of Bladud - mythical first builder of the city, destined to die in trying to fly - and ultimately brings them together in a clever and brilliant climax.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 帶著一段過去的少女來到一所新的城市,她有了一個新的名字、新的身份以及新的收養家庭。
這座城市是她自己所選擇的,她深深為這裡的和諧和美麗著迷,但同樣也帶著害怕被人認出的恐懼---在她的內心深處,隱藏著童年的一個秘密,這個秘密一直困擾著她,使她害怕自己的新的身份再次被質疑。在她的內心深處,隱藏著童年的一個秘密,這個秘密一直困擾著她,使她害怕自己新的身份再度遭旁人質疑。
同時,在1750年,一個名叫紮克的年輕建築師和喬納森.佛利斯特一起工作,佛利斯特非常著迷於過去神秘的都伊德教,並對於城市有著全新的建築視角。
他計畫建造世界上第一條圓形梯田式的街道:皇家圓形廣場。但這個計畫卻遭到了不屑和嘲笑,不久後,紮克便意識到,這不僅僅是對建築異象的一個執著而已。在這個廣場的中心地帶,似乎關聯著什麼秘密。但紮克自己卻不得不和自身的困擾反覆搏鬥著….
這些故事以布拉杜德的語氣緩緩道來,最後聯結在一起----這座城市最初的神秘建造者,命中註定在試圖飛翔的同時逝去----最終,全書最終高潮呼之欲出……(ZH & SL)
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About the Author/作者介绍: 凱薩琳·費舍爾,廣播員兼評判員,現居紐波特。她曾任小學教師以及考古學家。曾在格拉摩根大學教授兒童寫作。之後她開始創作詩歌並發表,並出版了三部詩集。1989年,Immrama獲得威爾士藝術委員會青年作家獎,亦獲得加地福國際詩歌大賽獎得主。1980年起,她開始創作兒童科幻作品,她的19部作品迄今已被譯為17種語言,並且多次被提名文學獎。
Format:电子手稿
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