粉笔线 Chalkline

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 240 pages

Publisher:Walker Books Ltd

Imprint:Walker Books Ltd

ISBN:9781406315172

Published:1 Jun 2009

Dimensions:199 x 130 x 16 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这是克什米尔乡村九岁拉菲克学校里一个平常的早晨，黎明祈祷的寂静被枪声打破。 克什米尔自由战士的士兵袭击了这个村庄，寻找新兵——他们在教室的墙上用粉笔画了一条线，任何身高达到这条线的男孩都将被带去战斗。 拉菲克相对于他的年龄来说个子很高，他是初个跨过粉笔线进入残酷生活的男孩。 这是拉菲克从儿童转变为男孩士兵的故事，因为他被灌输了狂热的信仰事业。 但他的家人并没有忘记他； 当他无法再认出自己时，他们会想起他曾经的样子，并在他走向暴行时伸出救赎之手。

It’s an ordinary morning at nine-year-old Rafiq’s school in rural Kashmir when the silence of dawn prayers is ripped apart by gunfire. Soldiers of the Kashmir Freedom Fighters have raided the village in search of new recruits – they scrawl a line in chalk across the schoolroom wall, and any boy whose height reaches the line will be taken to fight. Rafiq is tall for his age – the first boy to cross the chalkline into a life of brutality. This is the story of Rafiq’s transformation from child to boy soldier, as he is indoctrinated into the cause of fanatical belief. But his family have not forgotten him; when he can no longer recognize himself, they remember the boy he was, and reach out a hand of redemption as he spirals towards a act of atrocity.

作者简介

简·米切尔是《当星星停止旋转》一书的作者，该书荣获 1994 年 Bisto 年度图书奖和 1995 年爱尔兰阅读协会奖。《不同的生活》于 1996 年出版，《Making Waves》于 1998 年出版，《Olivia's Collection》于 1998 年出版。

Jane Mitchell is the author of When Stars Stop Spinning, which won Bisto Book of the Year in 1994 and Reading Association of Ireland in 1995. Different Lives was published in 1996, Making Waves in 1998 and Olivia's Collection in 1998.