內容簡介
內容簡介 活出自我價值的醜小鴨 鴨媽媽生了好多鴨寶寶,最後孵出的、體型最大、最不上相的醜小鴨,很不受鴨群裡的鴨王喜愛。唯一瞭解醜小鴨的當然是鴨媽媽囉,鴨媽媽拍胸埔保證醜小鴨可以抓鰻魚,做成鰻魚大餐,讓鴨王使用。醜小鴨賣力抓鰻魚,沒讓媽媽和鴨王失望。也因為媽媽特別關注醜小鴨,引來其他手足不滿。原本應該心懷感謝的鴨王竟也落井下石,因為醜小鴨的存在,讓年少時勇猛抓鰻魚的鴨王,備感年邁體弱…,醜小鴨要如何證明自己的價值和自己的與眾不同呢? Kamila Shamsie retells 'The Ugly Duckling'. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories. 'A duck unlike other ducks. A raincloud-duck, with the heart of a lion, who struck out into the world on her own...' On the farm, some eggs are hatching. A flock of sweet ducklings are popping out. But one duckling looks different from all the others... Cast out and all alone, this odd duckling will need all her bravery and curiosity to survive. Her journey is a search for belonging, but what she finds is the right to be different.
作者介紹
作者介紹 Kamila Shamsie Kamila Shamsie is the author of six novels including Home Fire which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award, the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2018, and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and won the London Hellenic Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018. Three of her novels have received awards from Pakistan's Academy of Letters. Kamila Shamsie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelists in 2013; she was also awarded a South Bank Arts Award in 2018. She grew up in Karachi and now lives in London.