基本信息出版社：Hodder and Stoughton
页码：371 页
出版日期：2006年01月
ISBN：0340921668
条形码：9780340921661
版本：2006-01-01
装帧：平装
开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet

内容简介 Book Description
January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.

Book Dimension
length: (cm)17.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)11.2
作者简介 David Mitchell's first novel, Ghostwritten, was published in 1999, when it won the Mail on Sunday/ John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second, number9dream, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and in 2003 he was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. His third novel, Cloud Atlas, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the South Bank Show Literature Prize, and the Best Literary Fiction and the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year categories in the British Book Awards. It was shortlisted for a further six awards including the Man Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize

Born in 1969, David Mitchell grew up in Worcestershire. After graduating from Kent University, he spent several years teaching in Japan, and now lives in Ireland with his wife and their two children.
媒体推荐 Reviews
1. "David Mitchell is dizzyingly, dazzlingly good.... The everyday details of Jason's life are lyrically transformed by the power of his prose, which is beguiling, funny, beautifully poetic and always keenly observed."
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Eithne Farry, Daily Mail

2. "Black Swan Green's 'I love 1982' nostalgia is a glassy, pitch-perfect, mock-innocent surface through which something rotten might appear"
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Ali Smith, Sunday Telegraph

3. "All the drama and inadvertent comedy of the onset of adolescence are brilliantly laid bare...a deceptively easy read, at times uproariously funny."
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Joel Rickett, Evening Standard

4. "It is the best kind of contemporary fiction."
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　M.John Harrison, Times Literary Supplement

5. "Mitchell is just about the best writer operating in Britain today...a novel that, like each of its predecessors, sticks in the back of your head for weeks after you've finished it."
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Mat Smith, Arena