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Impossible Creatures

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內容簡介 《屋頂上的蘇菲》、《騎狼女孩》作者凱瑟琳‧郎德爾作品那是一個非常美好的日子，直到有東西試圖吃掉他。一個名叫克里斯多福的男孩前去拜訪他隱居的祖父，卻目睹了一群神話生物從山丘上滾落下來。這就是克里斯多福得知他的祖父是非魔法世界與一個名為「群島」的地方之間的通道守護者的方式。群島是指神奇的島嶼群，所有我們在神話中所談及的生物都在那裡與人類一同生活、繁衍與繁榮。這些生物已經被保護了數千年，直到現在這層保護網漸漸消失，生物開始突破邊界。接著，一個名叫Mal的女孩出現在克里斯多福的世界。擁有會飛外套的她正被一名殺手追捕，同時她也在追尋一隻小格里芬。Mal、克里斯多福和這隻格里芬一起踏上了橫跨群島的緊急旅程，在那裡斯芬克斯隱藏著秘密、半人馬犯下謀殺罪，三人必須揭開真相——這將對他們的世界帶來無法想像的後果。他們兩人將一起面對權力、知識和愛所要求的一切。 作者：凱瑟琳．朗德爾畢業於英國牛津大學，作品獲得許多大獎肯定，包括水石童書獎，也曾入圍典林格倫兒童文學獎。英國奇幻作家菲力普‧普曼（暢銷小說《黑暗元素三部曲》作者）讚譽她的小說「擁有獨特的筆調與豐富的想像力」。喜歡奇幻小說的讀者不要錯過這本作品！It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him.A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and a place called the Archipelago, a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures we tell of in myth live and breed and thrive alongside humans. They have been protected from being discovered for thousands of years; now, terrifyingly, the protection has worn thin, and creatures are breaking through.Then a girl, Mal, appears in Christopher's world. She is in possession of a flying coat, is being pursued by a killer and is herself in pursuit of a baby griffin. Mal, Christopher and the griffin embark on an urgent quest across the wild splendour of the Archipelago, where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs do murder, to find the truth - with unimaginable consequences for both their worlds. Together the two must face the problem of power, and of knowledge, and of what love demands of us.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Katherine RundellKatherine Rundell is a multi-million-bestselling author whose novels for children have won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Costa Children's Book Award, among many others. She is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, where she works on Renaissance literature. Her books for adults include Super-Infinite, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize. Very occasionally she goes climbing across the rooftops of Oxford, late at night.

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最佳賣點 : 各方佳評如潮！各界讚譽，作家Katherine Rundell創造了一個有如納尼亞般的奇幻世界

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