Surrender
The novel alternates between the viewpoints of twin aspiring artists Noah and Jude, unfolding across shifting timelines. It is a lyrical coming-of-age story that intertwines loss, jealousy, love, creativity, family secrets, and renewal.
Work Information
The novel alternates between the viewpoints of twin aspiring artists Noah and Jude, unfolding across shifting timelines. It is a lyrical coming-of-age story that intertwines loss, jealousy, love, creativity, family secrets, and renewal.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Candlewick
- Published
- 2006-02-14
- Pages
- 256 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.08 x 2.44 x 20.45 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780763627683
- ISBN-10
- 0763627682
- Price
- 10746 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Teen & Young Adult
SURRENDER is a mesmerizing psychological thriller from extraordinary novelist Sonya Hartnett. I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it. As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years, which have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small, unforgiving town and distant, punitive parents ensure that he is never allowed to forget the horrific mistake he made as a child. He has only two friends - his dog, Surrender, and the unruly wild boy, Finnigan, a shadowy doppelganger with whom the meek Gabriel once made a boyhood pact. But when a series of arson attacks grips the town, Gabriel realizes how unpredictable and dangerous Finnigan is. As events begin to spiral violently out of control, it becomes devastatingly clear that only the most extreme measures will rid Gabriel of Finnigan for good.
SONYA HARTNETT is the acclaimed author of THURSDAY'S CHILD, WHAT THE BIRDS SEE, STRIPES OF THE SIDESTEP WOLF, and several other novels - the first written when she was just thirteen. She has won many prestigious awards for her work, including the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Sonya Hartnett lives in Australia.
Reviews
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Surrender
Very unique novel. I like it. One of the best novels I have ever read.
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Beautiful.
Wonderful story, I read it when I was younger and loved it; So upon reading it again I feel more and more in love with things I had not understood earlier.
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brilliant
a truly brill book that when u start reading you cant put it down it really gets you involved with the story and at the end every makes sense there is light at the end of the tunnel
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Five Stars
great
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Confusing, thought provoking and dark
As a YA novel, this book startled me with its unrelenting darkness and unreliable narrator, but it kept me engaged and guessing straight up until the end. Lots of themes of abuse and life in a small Australian town, lots of questioning: what is real? Who are these characters really?