书名：A Monster Calls 当怪物来敲门 平装 插画版 电影原著小说 卡内基金奖

作者：Patrick Ness

出版社名称：Candlewick Press

出版时间：2013

语种：英语

ISBN：9780763660659

商品尺寸：16.5 x1.5 x20.9 cm

包装：平装

帕特里克 尼斯(Patrick Ness)获得卡内基奖(Carnegie medal)的杰作将吸引眼光敏锐的跨界观众。康纳后院的怪物并不是他一直期待的那个——自从他妈妈开始治疗后，他每晚都会做噩梦。这个怪物很古老。和狂野。它想从康纳那里得到些什么。可怕而危险的东西。它想要真相。获奖作家西沃恩·多德(Siobhan Dowd)因患癌症过早去世，未能亲自创作这部小说。帕特里克·尼斯(Patrick Ness)根据其最后的构思，创作了一部令人难忘的黑色幽默小说，内容涉及恶作剧、失去和真实与想象中的怪物。

Patrick Ness's Carnegie Medal-winning masterwork is poised to attract a discerning crossover audience. The monster in Conor's backyard is not the one he's been expecting -- the one from the nightmare he's had every night since his mother started her treatments. This monster is ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd -- whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself -- Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.

Patrick Ness is the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling Chaos Walking trilogy. He has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, and the Costa Children's Book Award. Born in Virginia, he lives in London. Siobhan Dowd spent twenty years as a human rights campaigner for PEN and Amnesty International before her first novel, A Swift Pure Cry, was published in 2006. She won the Carnegie Medal posthumously in 2009 after her death at the age of forty-seven. Jim Kay studied illustration and worked in the archives of the Tate Gallery and the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, two experiences that heavily influence his work. His images for A Monster Calls use everything from beetles to breadboards to create interesting marks and textures. Jim Kay lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.