Stay Where You Are And Then Leave

有一種力量，足以帶領我們超越所有的傷痛……

《穿條紋衣的男孩》得獎名家最溫暖動人的作品！

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爸爸問艾菲，
為什麼敢冒著天大的風險去救他？
艾菲說不出口，
但他心裡明白：
為了人世間最棒的一種理由。
為了愛。

戰爭爆發那年，艾菲才五歲。生日的隔天，父親佐吉就違背對家人的承諾，踏上了戰場前線。艾菲不知道父親究竟去了哪裡、什麼時候回來？母親只說父親在執行「秘密任務」。母親定期會收到父親的信，但父親的來信卻越來越少，直到完全中斷，艾菲打從心底覺得父親已經戰死了。看到母親為了維持家計十分辛苦，艾菲瞞著媽媽蹺課，跑到王十字車站去當擦鞋童，賺回來的錢就偷偷塞進媽媽的皮包裡。有一天，一個找他擦鞋的軍醫，手上的文件被一陣風吹得老遠，艾菲趕緊幫他撿回來，卻竟然在「炮彈休克症」的患者名單上看見了父親的名字。難道父親……還活著嗎？為了找出真相，艾菲決定要展開他自己的「秘密任務」……

繼得獎無數、享譽全球的《穿條紋衣的男孩》後，約翰‧波恩再次帶領我們跟著小男孩艾菲，一起踏上一段動人的旅程，也帶領我們見證了戰爭對人性的摧殘、純真的勇氣以及愛的救贖！

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission.

Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by - a hospital treating soldiers with an unusual condition. Alfie is determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place . . .

John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971. He is the author of nine novels for adults and four for younger readers, including the international bestsellers The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which has sold more than six million copies worldwide, The Absolutist and, most recently, Stay Where You Are and Then Leave. His novels are published in over forty-five languages. He is married and lives in Dublin.

www.johnboyne.com
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