DEAD DOGS
Book ID/图书代码： 14934112B54793
English Summary/英文概要： Seán Galvin isn’t like the other children. While they play and laugh and keep on growing up, Seán doesn’t. Instead he does stuff to things. Things like cats and dogs. Bad stuff.
Seán has only one friend, the nameless narrator who tells their story. They have a lot in common. Both mothers are absent. Both fathers cannot cope. Both boys are outsiders in their small-town world. Their young lives revolve around sport and school. That is until Seán finally does something appalling and the boys have no choice but to tell someone. Someone older. Someone they should be able to trust.
What they uncover is a secret far more awful than anything Seán is capable of: they witness a murder. (Or do they?)
Because of their previous behaviour, no-one believes them. They begin to unravel a rather sinister series of links between people whom they thought they could trust and the person who they saw committing the crime. Their little rural town becomes a place of cold scepticism and barely-hidden conspiracy. (But is there really a conspiracy?)
Accused of being “freaks”, they become more and more isolated, and even Seán starts doubting. But the novel’s unreliable and increasingly unhinged narrator embarks on a mission to prove that they saw what they saw and his obsession will see their friendship tested to its limits and their lives changed forever.
Dead Dogs is a crime novel (is it?) that leaves the reader guessing right up to its wrenching climax and beyond.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 希恩.高尔文与其他孩子不同，当别的孩子在玩耍、欢笑以及成长的时候，希恩却没有。事情一团乱，总之很糟糕。 希恩只有一个朋友，那就是向我们讲述他们故事的无名叙述者。他们有很多相似之处，两个人都没有母亲，而两个人的父亲都是很难相处。此外，两个男孩在他们那个狭小的世界里都是个局外人。他们年轻的生活就围绕着运动和学校旋转。可是一切在希恩做了件惊人之举后发生了改变，两个男孩子除了告诉别人别无选择。他们要告诉了一个年长而且必须让他们相信的人。
因为他们发现的是一个可怕到希恩无法承受的秘密：他们见证了一场谋杀。（或者是他们自己所为呢？）
由于他们先前的行为表现，没有人相信他们。于是他们开始破解发生在他们本来觉得自己可以相信的人以及他们看见的凶手之间一系列环环相扣的邪恶秘密。他们所居住的乡村小镇变成了一个冰冷、充满怀疑以及公开的密谋的地方。（但是那里真的有密谋吗？）
他们被人称为“怪胎”，并变得越来越孤僻，甚至连希恩也开始怀疑。但是小说中这个不靠谱，以及越来越精神错乱的叙述者开始踏上真实他们眼见之事的旅途，他的痴迷将考验他们的友谊的极限，而他们的生活也将永远改变。
《无用之辈》是一部犯罪小说（是吗？），将令读者们一直猜测痛苦不堪的高潮甚至更远。(XMM)
Awards/获奖情况：乔.墨菲于1979年出生于爱尔兰的韦克斯福德。在恩尼斯科西职业学院就读期间，乔英文成绩优秀，多次获得奖，并入围“青少年年度科幻小说”奖决赛名单。乔在都柏林大学主攻英文专业，是班级里第一位获得学士学位的人，并获得奖学金攻读早期现代戏剧硕士学位方向。随后，他成为一名中学教师。 乔.墨菲野心勃勃的处女作小说名为《1798：明天我们将穿越巴罗》与2011年由自由出版社都柏林分社（Liberties Press）出版发行。好评如潮，例如“革命的史诗般小说”，“一个虚张声势的故事”，“重大的杰出作品”，“研究深入、画面生动”，“一部令人肝肠寸断、爱不释手的小说”……
乔的日常工作是教书，你难以相信他的作品如此优秀。
“Dead Dogs is a creepy gem . . . A twisting serpent of a story from a dark, original voice.”Eoin Colfer
"What a strange book it is! I think the author has given us a new genre, which I’ll provisionally name Wexford Gothic: he certainly has an eye, ear and nose - all that emphasis on ’dead meat’ - for the macabre and has succeeded in creating a fiction which should keep readers engaged right to the end. The tension is very well built up and the precise nature of the relationship between the two boys, like the overall relationship in the novel between truth and fantasy, remains as enigmatic - more so, perhaps - than at the outset. I very much enjoyed the way in which the author, through telling little details, builds up a gradual picture of contemporary Ireland, with all its hypocrisies, skulduggeries and double standards…"
Robert Dunbar, senior lecturer in literature in Trinity College, Dublin, literary critic and reviewer for The Irish Times
About the Author/作者介绍： Joe Murphy was born in 1979 in Co. Wexford, Ireland. In Enniscorthy Vocational College, he excelled at English, winning several awards and being shortlisted for Young Science Fiction Writer of the Year. Joe studied English at University College Dublin where he received 1st Class Hons and a scholarship to complete a Masters in Early Modern Drama. He went on to qualify as a secondary school teacher. Joe Murphy’s ambitious debut novel "1798: Tomorrow the Barrow We’ll Cross" was published in 2011 by Liberties Press (Dublin) to excellent reviews: "epic novel of revolution", "a swashbuckling tale", "a cracking good read", "brilliantly researched and movingly written", "a gut wrenching and page turning story"…
Joe’s day job is teaching. You wouldn’t believe the stories…
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