BRUISED (US TITLE: BRUISE: LONG STORY SHORT)(ORIGINALLY ENTITLED: GREEN APPLES)

Book ID/图书代码： 04300011B45662

English Summary/英文概要： BRUISED is a powerful tale of one boy’s mission to protect his younger sister ... no matter what the cost. It all started when Gramma died. And then Jonathan and Julie had only apples for dinner. Apples, an alcoholic mother, and one big bruise on Julie’s face. Jonathan had no choice but to pack their schoolbags and run away, far from Ma ... Until the police catch up with them and take Julie away and lock up Jono. And through his questioning, Jonathan must finally confront the real truth.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 乔纳森是不顾一切地想要从社会福利部门那里，保护自己的小妹妹，那些人一定会想要照顾他们，但这一切都不是这样的。 这部故事的（美国版)《长话短说》。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：""This is not Creative Writing. This is what really happened," begins Jonathan, the 14-year-old narrator of Siobhan Parkinson’s 13th novel, which ought to serve as an upfront warning about his essential unreliability. After his alcoholic mother hits his younger sister, Julie, with enough force to beark her cheekbone, Jonathan tells a pack of lies to Julie’s school, hoping to stave off the social workers who he’s sure will whisk Julie into foster care. But when days pass with no improvement to Julie’s appearance, Jonathan decides their only choice is to flee, hatching a half-hearted, under-financed attempt to run away. After they are captured by the police, the story pivots completely -- Jonathan even attempts, initially, to tell the second half of his tale in third person, but can’t sustain the device. "I thought the third person might make it all seem more real somehow, but it’s hard work writing about yourself as if you are not yourself," he admits. What results is a deeply affecting story about what can go wrong when adults fail children and the choices available to them are all bad." -- Publishers Weekly *starred* review

"An absolutely heartbreaking account of a broken family. It’s far from an easy read, but the central voice is extremely engaging. Parkinson is Ireland’s first Children’s Laureate." --The Bookseller (Fiona Noble’s children’s highlights for May)

“The fact that childhood is not necessarily an unbroken idyll for everyone is demonstrated yet again in Siobhán Parkinson’s Bruised, where at one point its 14-year-old hero, Jono, reflects, “Life is much better as you get older. The younger you are, the harder it is.” Given an alcoholic mother, a father who has absconded with a new partner, a grandmother who has recently died and a younger sister, Julie, who needs his protection, such a viewpoint is hardly surprising. But the principal focus of the novel is on the boy’s handling of these circumstances, expressed in a first-person narrative that, from its opening line, seizes the reader’s attention in all its immediacy and richness of perky idiom. The complexities and ambiguities of family relationships are skilfully explored, the inadequacies of societal responses to the Jonos of this world tellingly exposed. There are, of course, many ways in which a boy in Jono’s situation may end up “bruised” and, equally, many ways in which the effects of the bruising linger. In tracking these, Parkinson’s perspective is sympathetic without being sentimental. The underlying seriousness of the book’s central theme is cleverly balanced by its moments of wry wit and irony. And, making their presence felt at some well-judged moments, there are various passing allusions to The Merchant of Venice, with a pointed reminder of the significance of Portia’s words about the quality of mercy. This is an extremely impressive novel, easily one of the best so far by Parkinson, who is Ireland’s first Laureate na nóg.” -- Robert Dunbar, The Irish Times

"Bruised is a sensitive, unsentimental account that addresses important themes for today’s young readers." -- Inis Magazine

About the Author/作者介绍： Siobhan Parkinson is one of Ireland’s leading authors for children and teenagers, and she has won numerous awards for her writing. In May this year she was named as Laureate na nóg, Ireland’s first laureate for children’s literature. In her role as laureate she is working to engage young people with high quality children’s literature and to underline the importance of children’s literature in cultural and imaginative life. She lives in Dublin. www.siobhanparkinson.com

Format:电子手稿

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