THE SPIDER KING’S DAUGHTER
Book ID/图书代码： 04560010B39474
English Summary/英文概要： They say that to eat you must go to school, but no one remembers that to go to school someone else must feed you. And so you take it for granted until one day your someone dies and you have to wear his shoes. I am a hawker now, a mobile shop, an auto convenience store, the boy that stands by the road and sells things.
Seventeen-year-old Abike is the favourite child of Mr Johnson, a rich and corrupt Nigerian businessman. She lives in a sprawling mansion in Lagos, protected by armed guards and ferried everywhere in a huge black jeep by her driver. But neither wealth nor favour grants freedom, and she is often lonely behind the high walls surrounding her house.
A world away from Abike’s mansion, in the slums of Lagos, lives a seventeen-year-old hawker struggling to make sense of the world. His family lost everything after his father’s death and now he runs after cars on the roadside selling ice cream to support his mother and sister.
When Abike buys ice cream from the hawker one day they strike up an unlikely and tentative romance, defying the prejudices of Nigerian society. But as they grow closer, revelations from the past threaten their relationship and both Abike and the hawker must decide where their loyalties lie.
The Spider King’s Daughter is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet with shocking twists, unforgettable characters and a brilliant sense of place.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 人们常说，只有念书才能改变现状，就能不挨饿，但其实学校没有人会白白喂饱你。你不会明白，直到某天你身边有人死去，你自己步其后尘，才会渐渐有所体会。我现在就是个路边移动商店的小贩。亚柏克（ Abike ）今年17，是富商乔森先生最宝贝的孩子。她住豪宅，身边又有保镖保护。但是，她还是感觉很空虚很寂寞。 在贫民窟里的另一个世界，有一个17岁的小贩，正努力想要绽放他的光芒。父亲过世以后，他们家就没有了支柱，全靠他一个人支撑。
有一天，亚柏克在小贩那里买了一个冰淇林，由此擦出了一段摒弃世俗眼光、浪漫的爱情。然而，就在他们感情日渐弥深的时候，一段陈年往事几乎毁尽他们的坚定。
这是一个现代版的罗密欧与朱丽叶。(XJJ)
Awards/获奖情况：Desmond Elliott Prize 2012
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Turkey-Final ’Even more significant [than Andrew Miller’s novel] is the achievement of poet Matthew Hollis who won the biography award for his subtle and powerful study Now All Roads Lead to France. This is a remarkable book and has been widely acknowledged as such...Hollis brings wonderful empathy and perception to a book which not only examines the evolution of the literary journalist Edward Thomas into a poet, it also brings to life an exciting period of transition in British writing.....Hollis has written a profound book that not only informs and moves, it inspires. ...All five winners will now be considered for the Costa Book of the Year, for which Hollis seems the strongest contender.’---Eileen Battersby
About the Author/作者介绍： 芝棓杜•奥奴卓（Chibundu Onuzo），1991年生于尼日利亚，家中排行老四。不写作的时候，她喜欢弹弹钢琴、唱唱歌。目前她在伦敦国王学院学历史。
Chibundu Onuzo was born in Nigeria in 1991 and is the youngest of four children. She is currently studying History at Kings College, London. When not writing, Chibundu can be found playing the piano or singing.Chibundu Onuzo was born in Nigeria in 1991 and is the youngest of four children. She is currently studying History at Kings College, London. When not writing, Chibundu can be found playing the piano or singing.
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