CHASING SHADOWS
Book ID/图书代码： 06580112B58881
English Summary/英文概要： Corey, Holly, and Savitri are freerunners. They climb buildings, leap between rooftops, and throw moves that would make superheroes jealous. They are fast and strong and invulnerable.
Then a random act of violence shatters their world. A gunman shoots at their car, leaving Corey dead, Holly in a coma, and Savitri the sole witness to the crime.
Savitri just wants Holly to live. To come back to her so they can grieve for Corey together. But when Holly wakes, she’s not interested in mourning. She wants to track down Corey’s killer. She wants Corey back. And she thinks she knows how to get him.
In this intense and gripping novel, Swati Avasthi is looking at the impact of violence on our lives, and also at the boundaries and elasticity of friendship—how far will we walk with a friend, even when we know they are going down a bad road. She tells the story from two points of view. Savitri—a girl struggling to understand why her friend keeps pushing her away. And Holly—a girl so overcome by the loss of her twin that she invents an alternate reality where she has superheroic powers and can rescue her brother from a shadowy land of the dead.
As Holly slips into madness, her story is told in comic-book panels that show the world as she sees it. It’s a brilliant way to let the format reflect the character’s state of mind, and marks this book as something special and new.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 科里，冬青和萨维特里是自由跑步者。 他们爬上建筑物,让超级英雄也妒忌地在屋顶上跳跃。他们快速、强大、无懈可击。
后来一个偶然的暴力行动粉碎了他们的世界。一名枪手瞄准他们的车，射杀了科里，冬青昏迷，萨维特里是唯一见证人。
萨维特里只想要冬青活着。让她回到这个世上，这样他们就可以一起哀悼科里。但当冬青醒来，她并不想哀痛。她想追踪科里的杀手。她想要科里活过来。她认为她知道如何使他复活。
在这本紧张和揪心的小说中，斯瓦蒂•阿瓦士正在观察暴力对我们生活的影响，也在观察友谊的边界和弹性——我们将与朋友走多远，甚至当我们知道他们将走上一条糟糕的道路。她从两个方面讲述这个故事。萨维特里——难以理解为什么她的朋友坚持将她推开。冬青——为了克服丧失双胞胎的痛苦而寻找了一位可以从死神手里解救她伙伴的英雄替代人物。
当冬青陷入疯狂，故事以漫画面板的方式显示她看世界的眼光。用这种方式反映人物的精神状态是一个聪明的举动，标志着这本书的特别和新形式。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 斯瓦蒂•阿瓦士收到明尼苏达大学艺术硕士学位。她不写作时,她??名创意写作讲师。阿瓦士的处女作《裂缝》赢得了共和军最佳小说奖,希伯尔奖最佳小说奖,父母的选择银奖,BFYA选择奖和ABA新声音精选奖。《裂缝》也在荷兰,匈牙利和韩国发表。
克雷格•飞利浦是一名成功的漫画艺术家、漫画家和插画家。他住在新西兰。
SWATI AVASTHI received her MFA from the University of Minnesota. When she isn’t writing, she works as a creative writing instructor. Avasthi’s debut Split won the IRA Book Award for Best YA novel, the Cybil Award for Best YA, was a Parent’s Choice Silver Award, a BFYA selection, and an ABA New Voices Pick. SPLIT was also published in The Netherlands, Hungary and Korea.
CRAIG PHILIPS is a successful comics artist, cartoonist and illustrator. He lives in New Zealand.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Eng (US) - Knopf (Sep 2013)
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