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* Newbery Honor 수상작
* An ALA Notable Book
* ALA Best book for Teenagers
* Blue Ribbon Award
* Golden Kite award
* Parents Choice Award


뉴베리 수상작으로는 보기 드믄 SF소설입니다. 국내에는 "사라진 도시 사라진 아이들"이라는 제목으로 번역서가 출간된 명작 소설입니다.

2194년, 아프리카 짐바브웨의 통치자인 마치카 장군의 13살 아들과 두명의 동생은 보안시설이 잘 갖춰진 집을 부모 몰래 빠져 나와 도시를 탐험하기로 합니다. 그러나 채 반 나절도 지나지 않아 어두운 지하 세력인 암코끼리 일당에 납치되면서 그들의 위험천만한 모험은 악몽이 되고 맙니다. 아이들의 납치 사실을 알게 된 마치카 부부는 각기 특별한 능력을 타고난 긴 팔, 밝은 귀, 멀리 보는 눈, 세 탐정에게 아이들을 찾아 달라고 의뢰하게 되고...

과학이 고도로 발달된 미래사회를 배경으로 유머와 스릴이 넘치는 재미있는 이야기가 펼쳐집니다.






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Paperback - 311 pages
ISBN: 0140376410
책 크기 : 19.6cm x 12.7cm



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From Booklist
Even readers who don't like sf will be drawn to a hero who has a sense of humor about his serious mission. In Zimbabwe in the year 2194, the military ruler's 13-year-old son and his younger brother and sister leave their technologically overcontrolled home and find themselves on a series of perilous adventures. Tendai and his siblings encounter mile-high buildings and other miracles of scientific advance; they also find fetid slums and toxic waste dumps. As they're kidnapped by gangsters, forced to slave in a plastic mine, and accused of witchcraft, they're pursued by mutant detectives, who are both bumbling and sensitive and who always seem to be just one step behind rescuing the children. In the best section, the siblings find themselves in a traditional Shona village that at first seems idyllic but turns out to also encompass fierce sexism, ignorance, and disease. Throughout the story, it's the thrilling adventure that will grab readers, who will also like the comic, tender characterizations, not only of the brave, defiant trio and the absurd detectives, but also of nearly every one the kids meet, from street gangsters and spiritual healers to the English tribespeople with their weird customs. Tendai's spiritual coming-of-age is the least interesting part of the novel, but teens will like this teenager with "a hot line to the spirit world." Hazel Rochman --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.


Ingram
In Zimbabwe in the year 2194, General Matsika calls in Africa's most unusual detectives--the Ear, the Eye, and the Arm--to find his missing children. By the author of Do You Know Me.