TOM, PETIT TOM, TOUT PETIT HOMME, TOM

Book ID/图书代码： 04224010B36162

English Summary/英文概要： Tom, eleven, lives with his mother, Joss, twenty-five, in a trailer. Joss is an impulsive young woman who has no qualms about leaving her son home alone while she goes off on a road trip with friends for a few days. She knows that Tom’s a smart, resourceful boy, but he doesn’t much like staying alone at night in the trailer. In order to augment their meager diet, he sneaks out to take fruit and vegetables from a neighbor’s garden, just what they need, no more. That way it isn’t really stealing. And that is how he makes the acquaintance of a very old lady, Madeleine, whom he will secretly look after without letting his mother know, and who becomes an important part of his life. At about the same time a good-looking man turns up in the neighborhood, dressed in funeral clothes, a bit of a freak but basically a good-hearted sort. He and Joss have been long separated, and he’s been in prison, but now wants to get back together.
As in Barbara Constantine’s previous novels, there are generous helpings of humor, gravity and humanity in this book, which depicts characters rarely found in contemporary fiction —characters who, though battered by life, are endearingly appealing.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一部充滿溫馨的小說
生活再怎麼辛苦，小男孩湯姆依然像陽光下的雜草般獨立、茁壯

11歲的湯姆跟媽媽喬絲住在一間活動屋裡。喬絲非常非常地年輕(懷孕時只有13歲半)，最大的願望就是存一筆錢，替自己過大的胸部開刀，好讓男人們願意看看她美麗的雙眼。此外，她沒有固定工作、時常出門玩樂直到半夜、輕易愛上不值得的男人、整個週末都在外面跟男性朋友鬼混…。總之，湯姆早已學會什麼是自得其樂。至於吃呢，他則常常到附近鄰居的菜園裡，偷他們的紅蘿蔔、馬鈴薯。為了不被鄰居發現，他還會細心的把該種的種回去、把土填回去，抹去自己的足跡才離開。
直到有一天，他在菜園裡，發現了一位老太太瑪德蓮(93歲)獨自躺在菜園中，因為沒有力氣起身而哭泣著。多虧了湯姆，否則瑪德蓮就有可能因此歸西了…於是，湯姆開始扮演起照顧的角色，與老太太瑪德蓮建立起朋友關係，也因此認識了其他人物，他的爸爸是否就在其中呢?(SK)

Awards/获奖情况：全法狂售30,000 本
版權已售 Blanvalet (德)、Fazi (義),西語版權、電影版權洽談中

French Sales: Le Livre de Poche and Le Livre de Poche Jeunesse (paperback) France Loisirs (book club); GLM (book club).
Foreign Sales : Blanvalet (German); Fazi Editore (Italian); Seix Barral (world Spanish), Grup 62 (Catalan); Munhakdongne (Korean); Pokolenie (Russian).

About the Author/作者介绍： Barbara Constantine est scripte et romancière. « Tom, petit Tom, tout petit homme, Tom » est son troisième roman, après « Allumer le chat » et « A Mélie, sans mélo », publies chez Calmann-Lévy
芭芭拉康士坦丁是劇本及小說作家，合作過最有名的電影是 « 西班牙公寓2，俄羅斯娃娃»。 « 我的小湯姆»是她繼 « Allumer le chat» 和 « A Mélie, sans mélo» 後第三本小說。

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