The Stolen Child 失窃的孩子

Author: Keith Donohue

List Price: $23.95

Pages: 336

Publisher: Nan A. Talese

ISBN: 0385516169     

The Stolen Child is the story of Henry Day, a seven-year-old kidnapped by a strange group living in the dark forest near his home. He is stolen by changelings--ageless beings whose secret community is threatened by encroaching modern life. They give Henry a new name, Aniday, and the gift of agelessness--now and forever, he will be seven years old. In keeping with tradition, the group has left another child in Henry's place. This changeling boy, who has morphed himself into Henry's duplicate, must adjust to a completely new way of life and hide his true identity from the Day family. But he can't hide his extraordinary talent for the piano (a skill the real Henry never displayed), and his near-perfect performances prompt his father to suspect that the son he has raised is an imposter. As he grows older the new Henry Day becomes haunted by vague but persistent¹ memories of life in another time and place, of a German piano teacher and his prodigy². Both Henry and Aniday search obsessively³ for who they were before they changed places in the world.

住在宾州乡间的七岁男孩戴·亨利负气离家出走，被久居森林中的妖精绑架。于是彼此的人生便交换了，妖精假扮亨利随着协助寻人的消防队员回家，从此展开新生活。而真正的亨利却重生为妖精，他告别文明，忘却往事，甚至连书写和语言都不再熟悉，但他始终不愿忘记自己的过去，常常用偷来的纸笔，从其他妖精口中拼凑那段早已远去的人生。而偷走他人生的妖精虽然进入文明世界，却始终良心不安……



About Author
Keith Donohue lives in Maryland, near Washington, D.C. For many years, he was a speechwriter at the National Endowment for the Artsand and now works at another federal agency in Washington. The Stolen Child is his first novel.

基思·多诺霍，曾在美国艺术基金会担任演讲撰稿人，目前任职于华盛顿的一家政府机构。《失窃的孩子》是他的第一部小说。