Island

Love, death, hope … the island will change their lives forever. From the bestselling David Almond, author of SKELLIG, and now with fantastic illustrations by the award-winning David Litchfield.

Louise has travelled with her father to the island every year since she can remember – it’s the place her mother loved best of all. The arrival of Hassan changes everything. Louise is restless and yearning for independence; meanwhile, the fiercely free and self-reliant Hassan seems to know the island from long ago as if it were his home from birth. Hassan is an acrobat, maybe a sorcerer, possibly a source of great danger. The wild boys who call the island their home want to cast him out. The forces of love, death and hope move Louise and Hassan together. The island will change their lives forever.

David Almond is the author of many beloved and prize-winning books for children and teenagers. His best known work, Skellig, won the Whitbread Children’s Award and the Carnegie Medal and has been widely adapted for stage and screen. He has also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world’s most prestigious prize for children’s authors. In 2021, David was awarded an OBE for services to literature.

‘There really is nobody quite like Almond writing in children’s or adult’s fiction today.’ The Times

Khác với những chuyến phiêu lưu ồn ào, Island của David Almond là một nốt lặng đầy chất thơ. Câu chuyện đưa chúng ta đến với hòn đảo Lindisfarne hoang sơ, nơi cô bé Louise cùng cha mình quay trở lại để tìm kiếm những mảnh ghép của quá khứ.

Giữa tiếng sóng vỗ và cánh chim hải âu, Louise đã gặp Hassan – một cậu bé tị nạn với trái tim đầy tổn thương. Hai tâm hồn cô đơn đã tìm thấy sự kết nối kỳ diệu, cùng nhau khám phá ý nghĩa của tình yêu, sự mất mát và hy vọng. Một cuốn sách ngắn nhưng sức nặng về cảm xúc sẽ còn đọng lại mãi trong lòng độc giả.