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Book Description:
Nineteen-year-old cabbie Ed Kennedy has little in life to be proud of: his dad died of alcoholism, and he and his mom have few prospects for success. He has little to do except share a run-down apartment with his faithful yet smelly dog, drive his taxi, and play cards and drink with his amiable yet similarly washed-up friends. Then, after he stops a bank robbery, Ed begins receiving anonymous messages marked in code on playing cards in the mail, and almost immediately his life begins to swerve off its beaten-down path. Usually the messages instruct him to be at a certain address at a certain time. So with nothing to lose, Ed embarks on a series of missions as random as a toss of dice: sometimes daredevil, sometimes heartwarmingly safe. He rescues a woman from nightly rape by her husband. He brings a congregation to an abandoned parish. The ease with which he achieves results vacillates between facile and dangerous, and Ed's search for meaning drives him to complete every task. But the true driving force behind the novel itself is readers' knowledge that behind every turn looms the unknown presence - either good or evil - of the person or persons sending the messages.
中文簡介：
故事描述一位十九歲的青年艾德，一事無成，以開計程車為生，平日養著一條臭氣熏天的牧羊犬，和幾個狐朋狗友喝酒打牌，生活平淡了無生趣。然而這種平淡的生活，卻被一起銀行搶劫事件打破。艾德意外制服了劫匪，后來還接受記者采訪，甚至上了報紙頭條，艾德的人生從此改觀。有人寄了張撲克牌給他，上面留有地址和時間，艾德雖然滿腹疑惑，還是照著指示，一一完成任務。在紙牌的指引下，艾德馬不停蹄地幫助別人，以獨特的方式給需要溫暖和愛的人們送去一番心意。他不僅救了別人，也拯救了自己，只是，隱身在這些使命背后的神秘人物究竟是誰？看似懸疑的情節鋪陳，朱薩克以其妙筆，呈現出一段充滿愛、歡笑與懸疑的神秘生命之旅。
About Author:
Markus Zusak (born in 1975 in Sydney) is an Australian author. He is the son of an Austrian father and German mother and he is the youngest of four children.Zusak is best known for his teen novels, I Am The Messenger and The Book Thief. These have been very successful in Australia and internationally, and have sold more copies and received more publicity and critical acclaim than his other novels.
因《偷書賊》一書為讀者所熟悉的澳洲作家馬格斯．朱薩克，1975年生于悉尼，父母分別為奧地利及德國后裔。他被譽為當代澳洲小說界獲獎最多、著作最豐富、讀者群最廣的作家。朱薩克從小喜歡寫故事，他說自己的腦海中永遠有好幾個故事在打轉。《偷書賊》就源自他幼年時父母講述的情節。而父母所講述的情節場景也成為他創作的源泉，造就了一個令人感動的故事。
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