THE ELITES
Book ID/图书代码： 05380012B57248
English Summary/英文概要： ‘There is a rumour that the Elites don’t bleed.’ Hundreds of years into the future, wars, riots, resource crises and sea-level rise have destroyed the civilisations of the Mainland, Red Nations and Afrika. One city – built by the Global Council to create a society of peace, unity and sustainability that they had hoped would serve as a model to the rest of the world – has survived. That city is Neo-Babel. Its population have lived within its walls ever since the disintegration of the rest of the world’s civilisations. No one enters the city, and no one leaves. Or so it seems.
Fifteen-year-old Silver has been brought up as an Elite, the Council’s programme for citizens with high-performing DNA. As a devoted Elite, she has never even thought about leaving the city – then she fails to prevent the assassination of Neo Babel’s president. And when her parents are kidnapped, she and her best friend Butterfly realise the only way forward is to get out and find them. What they find on leaving the city changes them for ever, makes them grow up, and forces them to fight back against the city they have worked for and lived in all their lives.
Packed with adventure, tested friendships, romance, in her first novel, Natasha Footman has created an unforgettable world . Rich in detail, multi-layered, full of racial tensions, prejudices and confused morality, it is nevertheless a novel where good must triumph over evil and a lesson in how difficult achieving that can be. Lushly written, dense with the sounds sights and smells of another world, it is an electrifying read, with elements of CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON and THE HUNGER GAMES, but still unique.
Chinese Summary/中文概要：
有人說“精英不會流血。”
幾百年來的戰爭、暴亂、資源危機、海岸線上漲毀滅了人類文明、紅色國度和非洲。由各國專家組成的委員會建立了一個作為後世楷模的社會，以和平、團結和可持續為宗旨，這個城市倖存了下來。這個城市是“新一代巴別爾”。自從人類文明消亡後，這個城市的市民只能住在城牆內。任何人都不得離開，也沒有人能進入，但這只是表面情況而已。
15歲的希爾瓦正在被作為“精英”培養。該城“長老會”將擁有優秀DNA的孩子培養成精英。希爾瓦很勤奮，從未想過要離開這個城市。但她還是沒能阻止“巴別爾”的總統被刺殺，她的父母被綁架。她和她的好朋友Butterfly 意識到只有離開這座城才能找到父母。在這個過程他們長大了，最後竟然轉而反對自己生長的城市。他們到底發生了什麼？
這本融合了《臥虎藏龍》般的精彩情節、《饑餓遊戲》般的刺激、冒險、加上對友情的考驗、甜蜜的愛情、種族矛盾、偏見和宗教等多層次立體故事系統，將給讀者極大的震撼。當然這也是一本證明“邪不壓正”的故事。作者以華麗的文字、震撼五官的描寫塑造了一個新世界。（Celia）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 娜塔莎1990年出生在赫福特郡，聖阿爾本斯。她的成長受到英國和馬來西亞兩地的影響。自從2011年從劍橋大學地理專業畢業後，她在一家時尚博客工作，並作為自由撰稿作者。The Elites 是她的第一本小說，第二本小說是The Memory Keeper，講述在未來世界，記憶被當做商品買賣。
Natasha was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire in 1990. She grew up living between the UK and Malaysia. Since graduating from the University of Cambridge with a Geography degree in 2011, she has been working as a fashion blogger and freelance writer. THE ELITES is her first novel. Her second, THE MEMORY KEEPERS, is to be set in a future where memories are traded as commodities.
Format:HARDCOVER
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