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Book Information

Publisher
Andersen Press
Published
1996-11-01
Pages
278 pages
Language
英語
ISBN-13
9780862646325
ISBN-10
0862646324
Price
3352 JPY
Category
洋書/Teen & Young Adult

Tells, in the voices of many individuals, of two fourteen-year-old runaways in Bristol, England, who find a home with anarchists and get involved in vandalism, shoplifting, and prostitution to support their growing addiction to heroin.

Melvin Burgess was born in London and brought up in Surrey and Sussex. He has had a variety of jobs including journalism before becoming a full-time writer. Before his first novel, he had short stories published and a play broadcast on Radio 4. He lives in Earby, Lancs. Three of his novels have been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

Reviews

  • Tolles Buch

    Ich habe mir dieses Buch Anfang des Jahres bestellt. Ich habe es mir bewusst in Englisch zugelegt, um meine eigenen Sprachkenntnisse zu erweitern und muss sagen, dass ich persönlich beim lesen und verstehen keinerlei Schwierigkeiten hatte. Jeder, der in der Schule einen guten Sprachstandard erlangt hat, sollte dieses Buch gut lesen können. Zum Buch an sich: Ich habe schon etliche Bücher, die diese Thematik behandeln gelesen, aber dieses Buch war für mich mit Abstand das Beste. Die Geschichte wird fortlaufen aus der Sicht der einzelnen Charaktere erzählt, wodurch man nicht nur eine platt erzählte Story vorfindet, sondern sich gut in die Gefühle und Gedanken jeder einzelnen Person hineinversetzen kann und somit richtig in die Handlung hinein gerissen wird. Des weitern wirkt das Buch dadurch sehr authentisch und regt zum Denken an. Das Ganze hat einen bitteren Nachgeschmack nach dem Lesen bei mir hinterlassen. Noch Tage danach musste ich über das Buch nachdenken und ich denke, genau DAS sollte ein Jugendbuch doch erreichen. Es soll wach rütteln und zum Denken anregen. Ich werde mir dieses Buch auf jeden Fall auch noch auf Deutsch zulegen.

  • Powefull

    I liked all about the book. The author used a style that made me addicted to the story. Depiction of such a hard and harsh reality was shocking and I believe that all teenagers should read this book. Prevention is the strongest tool. Learning from mistakes of others can open eyes to many.

  • Horrifying and Compelling

    This is the second time I've read Junk. The first was for pleasure, many years ago. The second time around because I'm studying it. It made a lasting impression on me the first time I read it, and I picked it up again praying that it would be as good as I remembered. It is. It makes for troubling reading. This is the story of Tar, beaten by his alcoholic parents, who runs away to Bristol to start a new life, and Gemma, his spoiled princess of a girlfriend, who follows him thinking that running away will be a huge, exciting adventure, and really show her parents where to get off. They soon become sucked into a world of squatting and petty theft and finally heroin addiction with predictably disastrous results. The story is told by the characters, predominantly Tar and Gemma, but with a full supporting cast, and it's utterly rivetting, believable and horrific by turns. Burgess walks the fine line of making you sympathise with the characters and at the same time despair. He never preaches and the injustices, ragged holes in the system and horrors are not neatly tidied up. There is no happy ever after and there are no pat answers, there's just the story and the people and you the reader, left to read between the lines. This book is thoroughly deserving of all the awards heaped upon it. I highly recommend it.

  • Well worth reading

    A brilliant book. Very realistic and likeable characters that you can relate to.

  • Five Stars

    Enjoyed it a lot. Itwas raw but showed me exactly how fast societh is going. Totally recommend it

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