不可思议的生物（2023水石年度图书） Impossible Creatures

基本信息

Series:Impossible Creatures

Format:Paperback / softback 384 pages

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:Bloomsbury Childrens Books

ISBN:9781408897430

Published:29 Aug 2024

Weight:314g

Dimensions:197 x 129 x 25 (mm)

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书籍简介

这是一个非常美好的一天，直到有东西试图吃掉他。

一个名叫克里斯托弗的男孩正在拜访他隐居的祖父，这时他目睹了一场雪崩式的神秘生物从山上冲下来。 克里斯托弗就是这样得知他的祖父是连接非魔法世界和一个叫做群岛的地方的守护者，群岛是一群神奇的岛屿，我们在神话中讲述的所有生物都在那里与人类一起生活、繁殖和繁荣。 。 数千年来，它们一直受到保护，不被发现； 现在，可怕的是，保护已经减弱，生物正在突破。

然后一个女孩，玛尔，出现在克里斯托弗的世界里。 她拥有一件飞行外套，正在被一名杀手追捕，而她自己也在追捕一只小狮鹫。 玛尔、克里斯托弗和狮鹫开始了一项紧急任务，穿越群岛的狂野辉煌，那里的狮身人面像掌握着秘密，而半人马则在进行谋杀，以寻找真相——这给他们的世界带来了难以想象的后果。 两人须共同面对权力、知识以及爱对我们的要求的问题。

It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him.

A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and a place called the Archipelago, a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures we tell of in myth live and breed and thrive alongside humans. They have been protected from being discovered for thousands of years; now, terrifyingly, the protection has worn thin, and creatures are breaking through.

Then a girl, Mal, appears in Christopher's world. She is in possession of a flying coat, is being pursued by a killer and is herself in pursuit of a baby griffin. Mal, Christopher and the griffin embark on an urgent quest across the wild splendour of the Archipelago, where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs do murder, to find the truth – with unimaginable consequences for both their worlds. Together the two must face the problem of power, and of knowledge, and of what love demands of us.

作者简介

凯瑟琳-伦德尔（Katherine Rundell）著有《屋顶上的人》（Rooftoppers）、《雷雨中的车轮》（Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms）（曾获波士顿环球报-号角图书奖）、《野狼》（The Wolf Wilder）、《探险家》（The Explorer）、《好贼》（The Good Thieves）和《斑马大逃亡》（The Zebra's Great Escape）。她在津巴布韦、布鲁塞尔和伦敦长大，目前是牛津大学万灵学院的研究员。她每天都从侧手翻开始，她认为阅读和侧手翻几乎是一模一样的：它让世界天翻地覆，让你喘不过气来。业余时间，她喜欢走钢丝，喜欢闯入牛津大学的屋顶。

Katherine Rundell is the author of Rooftoppers, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms (a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner), The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer, The Good Thieves, and The Zebra’s Great Escape. She grew up in Zimbabwe, Brussels, and London, and is currently a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She begins each day with a cartwheel and believes that reading is almost exactly the same as cartwheeling: it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless. In her spare time, she enjoys walking on tightropes and trespassing on the rooftops of Oxford colleges.

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