The Giver

Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After several years at Brown University, she turned to her family and to writing. She is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader.s Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association.s Children.s Book Award. Lowry now divides her time between Cambridge and an 1840s farmhouse in Maine.

出版者:Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

作者:Lois Lowry

页数:192

出版时间:1993-4-26

价格:USD 17.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780395645666

图书标签:反乌托邦小说1993龍興鯉魚門香港中央圖書館英文原版英文

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Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community.

读后感

The end of this story, Jonas face to a serious question, he has to make a choice, ‘Lie or die.’ Keep living in that stable community, don’t have to worry about hunger, disease, everyday is similar, that is live in lie. Or he can escape, and start worr...  

这是一个完美的和谐社会---“大同世界”--- 的故事。 这里没有冲突，贫困，猜疑，不安全感。一切都是按分配得来：饮食，职业，婚姻，子女。每个人都生活得认认真真开开心心，家家和睦，人人友善，路不拾遗，夜不闭户。 按照规矩，每天晚餐过后，一家人要围坐在一起“交流情感...  

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A world without starvation,illness,warfare and also love, beauty and humanity.

A world without starvation,illness,warfare and also love, beauty and humanity.

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A world without starvation,illness,warfare and also love, beauty and humanity.

A world without starvation,illness,warfare and also love, beauty and humanity.