The Stolen Child 失竊的孩子
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Author: Keith Donohue
List Price: $23.95
Pages: 336
Publisher: Nan A.
Talese
ISBN: 0385516169
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The Stolen Child is the story of Henry Day, a seven-year-old kidnapped
by a strange group living in the dark forest near his home. He is stolen
by changelings--ageless beings whose secret community is threatened by
encroaching modern life. They give Henry a new name, Aniday, and the gift
of agelessness--now and forever, he will be seven years old. In keeping
with tradition, the group has left another child in Henry's place. This
changeling boy, who has morphed himself into Henry's duplicate, must
adjust to a completely new way of life and hide his true identity from the
Day family. But he can't hide his extraordinary talent for the piano (a
skill the real Henry never displayed), and his near-perfect performances
prompt his father to suspect that the son he has raised is an imposter. As
he grows older the new Henry Day becomes haunted by vague but persistent
memories of life in another time and place, of a German piano teacher and
his prodigy. Both Henry and Aniday search obsessively for who they were
before they changed places in the world.
住在賓州鄉間的七歲男孩戴·亨利負氣離家出走，被久居森林中的妖精綁架。于是彼此的人生便交換了，妖精假扮亨利隨著協助尋人的消防隊員回家，從此展開新生活。而真正的亨利卻重生為妖精，他告別文明，忘卻往事，甚至連書寫和語言都不再熟悉，但他始終不愿忘記自己的過去，常常用偷來的紙筆，從其他妖精口中拼湊那段早已遠去的人生。而偷走他人生的妖精雖然進入文明世界，卻始終良心不安……
About Author
Keith Donohue lives
in Maryland, near Washington, D.C. For many years, he was a speechwriter
at the National Endowment for the Artsand and now works at another federal
agency in Washington. The Stolen Child is his first novel.
基思·多諾霍，曾在美國藝術基金會擔任演講撰稿人，目前任職于華盛頓的一家政府機構。《失竊的孩子》是他的第一部小說。
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