基本信息出版社：Miramax
页码：464 页
出版日期：2007年03月
ISBN：1401360203
条形码：9781401360207
版本：Paperback
装帧：平装
开本：32
正文语种：英语

内容简介 The second book in the internationally bestselling fantasy series, Day Watch begins where Night Watch left off, set in a modern-day Moscow where the 1,000-year-old treaty between Light and Dark maintains its uneasy balance through careful vigilance from the Others. The forces of darkness keep an eye during the day, the Day Watch, while the agents of Light monitor the nighttime. Very senior Others called the Inquisitors are the impartial judges insisting on the essential compact. When a very potent artifact is stolen from them, the consequences are dire and drastic for all sides. Day Watch introduces the perspective of the Dark Ones, as it is told in part by a young witch who bolsters her evil power by leeching fear from children?s nightmares as a counselor at a girls? summer camp. When she falls in love with a handsome young Light One, the balance is threatened and a death must be avenged.

Day Watch is replete with the thrilling action and intricate plotting of the first tale, fuelled by cunning, cruelty, violence, and magic. It is a fast paced, darkly humorous, haunting world that will take root in the shadows of your mind and live there forever.
作者简介 Born in Kazakhstan and educated as a psychiatrist, Sergei Lukyanenko began publishing science fiction work in the 1980s. He is currently developing a TV series based on Night Watch and a new novel that incorporates suggestions from readers submitted on his website. Andrew Bromfield is a founding editor of the Russian literature journal Glas. His work has been short-listed for numerous translation prizes.
媒体推荐 "Night Watch is an epic of extraordinary power." -- Quentin Tarantino

"Star Wars meets the Vampires in Moscow . . . it bursts with a sick, carnivorous glee in its fiendish games." -- New York Times

"A pixilated-vampire-superhero, rock-and-roll, Matrix-style thriller that?s up there with the genre?s most exhilarating and ridiculous." -- New York
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
The morally ambiguous second volume in Lukyanenko's trilogy (after 2006's Night Watch, a major literary and cinematic success in Russia) portrays the epic supernatural struggle between good and evil from the point-of-view of the witch Alisa Donnikova. Lukyanenko imagines a parallel reality, where human history has been shaped by a centuries-old conflict between the Dark Ones and the Light Ones, magical beings whose existence is kept carefully hidden from humanity. After Alisa, a Dark One, loses her powers in a minor confrontation with some Light Ones, she heads to the Crimea to recuperate at a girls' camp, where she feeds on children's nightmares. There she falls in love with Igor, who turns out to be a Light magician. The plot centers on the ramifications of their romance and the theft of Fafnir's Talon, a powerful artifact whose provenance is linked to the legendary Ring of the Nibelungs. Though the artifact conceit is less well developed than that of the truth-telling instrument in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series, the fast-paced story augurs well for the last installment. (Mar.)
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Quentin Tarantino
"Night Watch is an epic of extraordinary power."

New York Times
"Star Wars meets the Vampires in Moscow . . . it bursts with a sick, carnivorous glee in its fiendish games."

New York
"A pixilated-vampire-superhero, rock-and-roll, Matrix-style thriller that’s up there with the genre’s most exhilarating and ridiculous."