书名：The Giver记忆传授人

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数760L 作者：Lois Lowry 

出版社名称：HarperCollins Children's Books 

出版时间：2008 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9780007263516 

商品尺寸：19.3 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm 

包装：平装 

页数：256（以实物为准）★1994年美国纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖

★1993年美国《波士顿环球报》号角图书奖银奖 ★1996年美国威廉·艾伦·怀特奖 ★2007年美国图书馆协会评选的“玛格丽特·爱德华奖” ★美国《纽约时报》畅销童书排行榜前十        ★美国图书馆协会“青少年书籍”“美国图书馆协会优秀童书” ★美国《书单》杂志“编辑推荐图书奖”

The Giver《记忆传授人》是纽伯瑞金奖两度得主、国际安徒生奖候选人美国作家洛伊丝·劳里的代表作之一。本书创作于1993年，出版后迅速引起美国书评界和教育界的关注，并登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜前十。 之后在2000、2003和2012年，劳里延续了《记忆传授人》的背景和人物，陆续创作《历史刺绣人》《森林送信人》《儿子》三部小说，构成了“记忆传授人”四部曲。2014年8月，根据《记忆传授人》一书改编的同名电影公映，在世界范围内再次引发了“记忆传授人”的阅读热潮。 THE GIVER is the classic award-winning novel that inspired the dystopian genre and a major motion picture adaptation for 2014 starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift. It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no pain. No one in the community wants for anything. Everything needed is provided. And at twelve years old, each member of the community has their profession carefully chosen for them by the Committee of Elders. Twelve-year old Jonas has never thought there was anything wrong with his world. But from the moment he is selected as the Receiver of Memory, Jonas discovers that their community is not as perfect as it seems. It is only with the help of the Giver, that Jonas can find what has been lost. And it is only through his personal courage that Jonas finds the strength to do what is right… The Giver is the award-winning classic of bravery and adventure that has inspired countless dystopian writers as the forerunner of this genre. There was absolutely nothing remarkable about the apple. Jonas had tossed it back and forth between his hands a few times, then thrown it. And - in the air, for an instant only - it had changed. 故事发生在一个乌托邦世界，在这里，人们一生所要做的事情早在一开始就被确定好了：孩子出生后会被送到指定的家庭，由指定的父母抚养长大；成年后，被指派从事特定的工作。这个世界看上去很完美，没有饥饿，没有离婚，没有失业，没有社会不公，没有战争，甚至没有痛苦的感觉，但也没有选择。所有人都在统一的模式里生活，除了乔纳思。

在晋升十二岁的典礼上，乔纳思被选定承担一项对社区意义重大的工作。他需要跟随神秘的、自称“记忆传授人”的老人接受训练。在受训过程中，乔纳思逐渐发现，支撑这个完美社会的不过是谎言，甚至危及到了他所爱之人的生命，于是他决定要改变一切。等待在乔纳思前方的究竟会是什么？乔纳思终会走向何方？ Jonas lives safely within the Community, a place where there is no war, no hunger and no pain. But when he is selected as the Receiver of Memory, he starts to discover dark secrets that lie beneath the surface of his perfect world, secrets that will leads him to undertake an incredible journey...

洛伊丝·劳里，1937年出生于美国夏威夷，童年及青少年时期随担任军医的父亲在世界各地迁移。她写作生涯起步较晚，但很快就成为了世界知名的作家，先后创作了四十多部文学作品和一本自传，并以《数星星》（1990年）和《记忆传授人》（1994年）两度获得美国纽伯瑞儿童文学金奖。劳里堪称一位多才、多变的作家，她的写作风格多样、题材广泛，既有轻松幽默的少年生活类小说“阿纳斯塔西亚”系列，也有反思乌托邦的“记忆传授人”四部曲；此外还在作品中探讨过种族主义、大屠杀、收养等复杂议题，屡屡引发美国教育界和文学评论界的热议和盛赞。

Lois Lowry, author of over twenty novels and twice winner of the Newbery Medal (for The Giver and Number the Stars), was born on 20 March 1937 in Hawaii. Her father was an Army dentist and the family lived all over the world. Now divorced, she lives in West Cambridge with her dog, Bandit, and spends weekends in her nineteenth-century farmhouse in New Hampshire.

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