In Darkness
2010年のハイチ地震を背景に、破壊された都市で生き延びようとする人々の姿を描く群像劇。暗闇と混乱の中での生存、連帯、倫理的選択を鋭く問いかける作品。
Work Information
2010年のハイチ地震を背景に、破壊された都市で生き延びようとする人々の姿を描く群像劇。暗闇と混乱の中での生存、連帯、倫理的選択を鋭く問いかける作品。
Book Information
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Childrens Books
- Published
- 2012-01-17
- Pages
- 341 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.1 x 2.84 x 20.75 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781599907437
- ISBN-10
- 1599907437
- Price
- 9542 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Teen & Young Adult
Winner of the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award Bloomsbury is proud to be the global publisher of In Darkness, a stunning tour-de-force set in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. "Shorty" is a Haitian boy trapped in the ruins of a hospital when the earth explodes around him. Surrounded by lifeless bodies and growing desperately weak from lack of food and water, death seems imminent. Yet as Shorty waits in darkness for a rescue that may never come, he becomes aware of another presence, one reaching out to him across two hundred years of history. It is the presence of slave and revolutionary leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, whose life was marred by violence, and whose own end came in darkness. What unites a child of the slums with the man who would shake a troubled country out of slavery? Is it the darkness they share . . . or is it hope? Raw, harrowing, and peopled with vibrant characters, In Darkness is an extraordinary book about the cruelties of man and nature, and the valiant, ongoing struggle for a country's very survival.
Nick Lake is the much-acclaimed author of In Darkness , winner of the Michael L. Printz Award, and Hostage Three , which received three starred reviews and was named a Publishers Weekly , School Library Journal , and Boston Globe Best Book of the Year. Nick became fascinated by Haitian culture while pursuing his master's degree in linguistics. He is also the Publishing Director for fiction at HarperCollins Children's Books UK, and lives near Oxford, England. Visit him online at www.in-darkness.org and on Twitter at @nicklakeauthor.
Reviews
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it's ok
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I read this book as an aspiring author for one reason- it won the 2013 Printz Award for teenage literature. I wanted to do some great gene reading, not NYT Bestseller stuff, because we all know most of that stuff is crap, it's just crap that sells books (which is great, don't get me wrong). I wanted to read some GREAT YA literature ... man did I ever! I have never read this author before, but I definitively work again. Truly amazing piece of hard work ... BRAVO Nick Lake!!!
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In Darkness é um livro mágico e surpreendente, que conta sua história em dois tempos. O autor fala do Haiti de hoje e da época da independência com delicadeza e sem afetações, e o resultado é um panorama mágico da identidade de um povo, junto a uma história de superação pessoal cativante.
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A 15yr old boy is trapped under the rubble after the Haitian earthquake, a boy brought into the violent world of gangsters and voodoo, he shot his first man when he was 12yrs old. This is the tale of two Haitis one modern and one from the past, during his ordeal he lives the life of Toussaint l'Ouverture an ancestor who led the rebellion to free the black slaves of Haiti to the point he is not sure who he is, all he knows is that if help doesn't come soon he will die. I read the first couple of chapters of this book and nearly stopped reading it altogether, I just couldn't get into it, but after continued reading found it great reading and actually couldn't put it down, well worth a read.
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This book could easily serve as a writing template. While it's not classic perfection of "To Kill a Mockingbird" (technically superior in so many ways), it holds up well. But the material may not be for everyone...hence the few negative reviews preceeding this one. (But what book is?) This book has; Vivid prose. Multiple plots. Believable characters. Intelligence. Lean story telling. A compelling narrative voice.... in both the NOW and THEN passages. Surprise. And it never stumbles along on wasted scenery or meaningless sub-characters. Every person in the story has a place and reason. I have only one complaint regarding a revelation at the very end. It garnered a,"What? That makes no sense! Why would they do that?" from me. But, barring that, i'm recommending it to my kids.