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Land of Lost Things

作者:Connolly, John

出版社:Simon & Schuster

年份:2023

ISBN:9781668046203

書號:20300258

裝訂:平裝

定價:$630

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約翰‧康納利《失物之書》第二集─《失物之地》The Land of Lost Things

 

以懸疑小說寫手著名的約翰‧康納利,改寫讀者耳熟能詳的童話,巧妙結合奇幻與恐怖,刻畫一段如何以勇氣和愛戰勝恐懼的故事。

 

《失物之書》描寫父親再婚、思念過世母親的男孩大衛,在家中感到越來越寂寞,一天,他開始聽見家中書本彼此交談的聲音,不時會有黑影閃現,以及母親對他若有似無的呼喊聲,像是要提醒他什麼。一次激烈的爭執後,大衛陰錯陽差墜入另一個世界,卻發現裡面的故事情節完全亂套,原本熟悉的童話故事角色,卻暗藏猙獰恐怖的面貌,為了讓一切回到正軌,為了找到回家的路,大衛必須找到《失物之書》,克服心中最深的恐懼,才能回到原來的世界。

 

第二集《失物之地》雖然主角不再是前作的大衛,但依然圍繞書本、童話、民間傳說等元素。因八歲女兒菲比車禍意外導致重度昏迷,瑟瑞絲整天都待在醫院,守在女兒身旁,她唯一能做的事情就是把菲比最喜歡的童話故事重複念給她聽,默默祈禱奇蹟會出現。

 

而醫院不遠處一棟古老的大宅─據說大宅的前主人是一位消失的作者─不知為何吸引瑟瑞絲的注意,某個東西希望瑟瑞絲走進房子,並開啟一段前往另一個世界的旅程,那裏充滿童年回和她父親喜愛的民間奇談─一個充滿女巫、精靈、巨人的奇幻仙境,但同時,未知的敵人也躲藏於暗處,觀察著,等待著...

 

這個幻境跟瑟瑞絲的關係是什麼?她能夠抵禦恐怖威脅、並讓菲比甦醒過來嗎?

 

“Twice upon a time—for that is how some stories should continue…”

 

Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident—a body without a spirit. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud the fairy stories Phoebe loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world.

 

But an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to enter, to journey to a land colored by the memories of childhood, and the folklore beloved of her father—a land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes; a land where old enemies are watching and waiting…

 

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作者介紹
John Connolly is the author of the #1 internationally bestselling Charlie Parker thrillers series, The Book of Lost Things and its sequel The Land of Lost Things, the Samuel Johnson Trilogy for younger readers, and (with Jennifer Ridyard) the Chronicles of the Invaders series. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, see his website at JohnConnollyBooks.com, or follow him on X @JConnollyBooks.