ON THE ISLAND

Book ID/图书代码： 06814012B54472

English Summary/英文概要： Two people stranded on an island struggle to survive—and slowly fall in love—in the runaway New York Times bestseller.

Anna Emerson is a thirty-year-old English teacher desperately in need of adventure. Worn down by the cold Chicago winters and a relationship that’s going nowhere, she jumps at the chance to spend the summer on a tropical island tutoring sixteen-year-old T.J.

T.J. Callahan has no desire to go anywhere. His cancer is in remission and he wants to get back to his normal life. But his parents are insisting he spend the summer in the Maldives catching up on all the school he missed last year.

Anna and T.J. board a private plane headed to the Callahan’s summer home, and as they fly over the Maldives’ twelve hundred islands, the unthinkable happens. Their plane crashes in shark-infested waters. They make it to shore, but soon discover that they’re stranded on an uninhabited island.

At first, their only thought is survival. But as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.’s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 電影版權洽談中，預計將由《暮光之城》團隊拍成電影
紐約時報、華爾街日報、今日美國報- 暢銷新銳作家
美國兩月創下30萬本銷售佳績
亞馬遜五星級(1,190) 好評推薦

在意外不斷的生命旅程，他們體驗到愛情滋味與苦甜參半的人生
融合浪漫與感動，激發讀者重新探索人生的意義

31歲的英語教師Anna Emerson急切地想追求冒險，期待能有機會再次體驗絢爛的人生。有天機會來臨，她成為在富裕家庭長大TJ Callahan的私人家教。想當這位少年的指導老師，條件之一是必須陪他在馬爾地夫度過整個暑假，彌補TJ 嚴重落後的學業進度

但其實TJ Callahan只是一位罹患癌症，一心只想回到正常生活的16歲少年。為了不辜負父母的期望，他非常不甘願的與這位新來的「個別指導」特地遠走他鄉，只因父母認為在熱帶生活，或許他的病情會有所好轉。

然而，前往馬爾地夫私人島嶼的途中，飛機卻突然失事，她們被困在印度洋一個無人居住的小島。為了生存他們必須共同努力，取得滿足生活最基本的需求。但日子一天一天的過去，風暴、海中潛伏的許多危險，她們遇到前所未有的障礙。

Anna心靈上的受挫折磨，TJ癌症似乎始終不見好轉，兩人脫離了現實世界受困孤島，急促的轉變使她們人生所有的價值瞬間全都改變。兩人在生命當中最落魄的角落相遇，在意外不斷的生命旅程，他們體驗到愛情滋味與苦甜參半的人生…

Awards/获奖情况：此書已有電影option: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118053934?refCatId=13
銷售量: The book has sold more than 330,000 copies on her own (with nearly 300,000 of those in April and May alone).

版權銷售紀錄: We continue to sell Tracey Garvis Graves’s megabestseller ON THE ISLAND in new territories, almost all of them at auction or in pre-empts. Here’s a full list of her publishers to date (though we expect to close Czech, Slovak, and Croatian very soon): US (Dutton); UK (Michael Joseph); Brazil (Intrinsica); Portugal (ASA); Spain (Salamandra); Italy (Garzanti); France (Bragelonne); Hungary (Pioneer); Indonesia (PT Kairos); Netherlands (Luitingh-Sijthoff); Norway (Aschehoug); and most recently, Germany, at auction (Goldmann).

Reviews:

"From the moment I opened On the Island, I was held captive. Tracey Garvis-Graves’ words command your attention from the very first sentence and do not let up. The concept of being stranded on a deserted island isn’t a new one. But with the characters she created, the fact that they are two very different people at two very different stages in their lives, how they expanded and evolved..this story becomes truly remarkable." ~ Andrea, The Bookish Babe

"Ok, I know what you’re thinking, a 30 year old and a 16 year old??? I had that same thought before I read the book. HOWEVER, I completely fell in love with the story and absolutely nothing in the story is inappropriate! I honestly wasn’t ready for the book to end." ~ Autumn, The Autumn Review

"The relationship between Anna and TJ was sweet and sexy and very real...the idea of their age difference was neither a shock nor unbelievable. The bonds created between individuals under duress are strong and enduring. And the romantic in me loved it as well." ~ Cricket, Mostly Fantasy

"These two characters were fantastic together. Even though I tended to forget that Anna was considerably older than TJ, she never did - and this attention to the appropriateness of their relationship was one of the things that I liked about her and one of the things that I loved about how the book was written." ~ Asheley, Into the Hall of Books

"On the Island is a clever, captivating story. The characters will live in your thoughts long after you turn the last page." ~ Meira Pentermann, author of Firefly Beach and Nine-Tenths

About the Author/作者介绍： Tracey Garvis-Graves lives in a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa with her husband, two children, and hyper dog Chloe. This is her first novel. She blogs at www.traceygarvisgraves.com using colorful language and a snarky sense of humor to write about pop culture, silly television shows, and her suburban neighborhood. She is hard at work on her next book.

Format:TRADE PAPERBACK

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