THE LISTENERS

Book ID/图书代码： 11516013B60128

English Summary/英文概要： Before the plague, and the quarantine, fourteen-year-old Daniel Raymond had only heard of the Listeners. They were a gang, or at least that’s what his best friend Katie’s police officer father had said. They were criminals, thieves, monsters -- deadly men clearly identifiable by the removal of their right ears. That’s what Daniel had heard. But he didn’t know. He didn’t know much in those early days. He didn’t know how the plague began, but then, no one did. The doctors and emergency medical personnel said it was airborne, and highly contagious. They said those infected became distorted both inside and out, and very, very dangerous. Then the helicopters came and took the doctors away, and no one said much of anything after that. Except the police officers. They said they’d provide food and order, in exchange for guns and, ultimately, anything else they felt like taking. Daniel’s mother went out for toilet paper. She never came back. He hasn’t heard from Katie since the phones went dead. And with his real family gone and surrogate family unreachable, Daniel, scared and alone, has nothing except the walls of his apartment, the window shattered, the poisonous air seeping in. That’s when the Listeners arrive. Derek, the one-eared man with the big, soulful eyes, promises protection, and hope, and the choice not to sit alone and wait to die in some horrific way. He offers a brotherhood under the watch of their leader, the prophet Adam. He offers a place in the world to come. A harrowing work of literary horror, The Listeners, Harrison Demchick’s electrifying debut, is a dark and terrifying journey into loneliness, desperation, and the devastating experience of one young boy in a world gone mad.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在瘟疫和隔离之前，14岁的丹尼尔•雷蒙德只听说过听众。他们是一个团伙,或者至少那是他最好的朋友凯蒂的警察父亲说的那样。他们是罪犯、小偷、怪物——致命的男人，可以从他们缺少的右耳朵很容易的辨认出来。这就是丹尼尔听过的。但他不知道，在最初的日子里他并不知道特别多。他不知道如何瘟疫是如何开始的,但是后来,并没有人知道。医生和紧急医疗人员说它是通过空气传播的、高度传染性的。他们说那些受到感染的里里外外变得扭曲,非常非常的危险。然后,直升机来了,把医生带走了,之后就再也没有人说过这么多，除了警察。他们说他们会提供食物和秩序,以换取枪支和最终他们想要的任何东西。丹尼尔的妈妈出去找卫生纸，然后她再也没有回来。自从电话坏了，他再也没有听到过凯蒂说话。他真正的家人走了,而代理家庭又遥不可及的,丹尼尔非常害怕和孤独,除了他公寓的墙壁、破碎的窗户、渗透进来的有毒的空气，他一无所有。正是这时候，听众来了。德里克,一个只有一个耳朵和一双大而深邃的眼睛的人,承诺会提供保护和希望，不会让丹尼尔一个人在孤独的等待中以一种恐怖的方式死去。在他的领导人先知亚当的允许下，他为丹尼尔提供了兄弟情义，给了他世界上的地位。Harrison Demchick令人兴奋的处子作《听众》是一本恐怖文学作品，是一个黑暗的可怕的充满孤独和绝望的旅程,在疯狂的世界里一个男孩逐渐走向毁灭的旅程。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：http://www.grubstreet.ca/articles/index/1662/grub-street-interview-harrison-demchick 此評論點擊率高達百萬

“竖起你的耳朵来倾听，有一个引人注目的新声音冲击了文学景观。在他的惊人的小说《听众》里,Harrison Demchick描写了一个恐怖的故事，人类既卑鄙又高贵，世界无情而黯淡,只有一缕希望从缝隙里渗透出来。像年轻的主人公一样,当形势如此绝望而充满风险时，你很难找出谁是好人,也很难思索出我们是否可以做好人。带上你自己在，确保手枪在杂物箱里——这本小说不是描写的这样的场景，沿着海滩的充满阳光的公路，在夜里的泥泞的森林中，你的导航仪出错了，直觉告诉你转过来往回走，但是，上帝保佑，有时候你需要看看自己是什么造就的。从主要的干道上下来吧，读一读《听众》。”——广受赞誉的打击邪教紫色耶稣的作者,在《华盛顿邮报》上宣布“文学是第一位的”，罗恩•库珀

“Demchick第一次登台不是僵尸小说,但是基本上它是......道德败坏的行为是最小限度的,而Demchick不是跟随的Colson Whitehead的《区域一》(2011)的日常结构,同时还有在Max Brooks的《世界大战》(2006)中一样的原始文档合并。引起回忆的非线性散文......Demchick聚焦的深度既自信又给人深刻的印象。”——推荐书目(丹尼尔•克劳斯，布拉姆斯托克奖得主和奥德赛获奖作品《ROTTERS》一书的作者）

“用大决战笔书写,想象着绝望荒凉的眼睛,用仅剩一个的耳朵倾听,Harrison Demchick的《听众》提供了一个窥视生活在毁灭世界的幸存者是如何一天天在作为人的压力之下生存的机会。格式上和情感上的丰富使得作品很大程度的丢失了后启示录亚种,这是一本不容错过的小说!”——本杰明•凯恩•埃思里奇,布莱姆•斯托克获奖作品《黑色和橙色的，囚禁大脑》的作者

“Demchick的初次亮相令人钦佩的雄心勃......试图给那些持续威胁下的人注入新的生命力......他技术高超的描写技术,包括倒叙,多个叙述者,偶尔不拘形式，借鉴一些新鲜的故事......”——《出版人周刊》

“我坐在这里,手高举过我的嘴，尝试着处理这些最令人难以置信的诗意,读一本我从来没有读过的小说。这是一本关于行尸走肉一样的瘟疫的小说。我尝试着描绘一下那种场景。Harrison Demchick写了一本美丽又丑陋的、美妙又恐怖的书，这本书具有强大的嗓音和抒情的质量,它是启示录一样的书......《听众》让我感觉到恐怖故事是如此感人而又充满力量。这不是传统的可怕,更多的是恐怖而不是嘘声,但我发现天黑后它渗透进我的思想。它带来了很多关于谁是怪物和生存的道德的问题。它必须是经验丰富的。”——永恒不老的评论

About the Author/作者介绍： Harrison Demchick 在马里兰州的巴尔的摩长大，源源不断的魔幻现实主义、文学小说、科幻小说、《蜘蛛侠》漫画使得他大部分时间生活在他的头脑里，想出奇怪的想法和思想，最终将其写入故事、剧本和歌曲。他就读于欧柏林大学，拿到了一个迄今为止最臭名昭著的无用的学位,充满创造性写作深度的英语学士学位,但实际使用它是过去七年一直作为图书编辑。哈里森也是一个编剧，赢得了2011年巴尔摩编剧竞赛冠军。《听众》诞生于哈里森在欧柏林的最后一年，他在独立小说研究时创作的。最初是一系列相互连接的短篇小说,第一次改编成剧本,然后从剧本到他的第一部小说。哈里森热烈希望《听众》不需要他自己去营造市场。他仍然生活在巴尔的摩,从事音乐和各种剧本编写。

作者是相当迷人的,接待他的读者。想要看到最新的帖子你也可以访问他的网站:www.facebook.com/harrisondemchick

Raised in Baltimore, Maryland on a steady diet of magical realism, literary fiction, science-fiction, and Spider-Man comics, Harrison Demchick spent most of his formative years inside his own head, working out strange thoughts and ideas that would eventually make their way into stories, screenplays, and songs. He went to Oberlin College to attain one of today’s most notoriously useless degrees, a BA in English with a creative writing concentration, but then actually used it, working the last seven years as a book editor. Harrison is also a screenwriter, and the winner of the 2011 Baltimore Screenwriters Competition. The Listeners was born in an independent study in fiction during Harrison’s senior semester at Oberlin. Originally a series of interconnected short stories, it was adapted first into a screenplay, and then, from the screenplay, into his first novel. Harrison hopes ardently that The Listeners will catch on in such a way that he doesn’t have to market it. He lives still in Baltimore, working on a musical and various screenplays.

The author is fantastic and engaged with his readers and for up-to-date postings you can also visit his website: www.facebook.com/harrisondemchick

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