FLESHMARKET
Book ID/图书代码： 04320605B18765
English Summary/英文概要： It is Edinburgh, 1822, and young Robbie is eight years old when he witnesses his mother’s pain and subsequent death from an operation - without anaesthetic - to remove a tumour from her breast at the hands of Dr Knox. Haunted by this terrible event, Robbie, his hapless father and baby sister Essie attempt to move on with their lives. But when Robbie’s father loses all their money and disappears, Robbie is left to look after himself and his sister in the Edinburgh slums.
Somehow he falls in with Burke and Hare, the two men whom Knox employs to ’collect’ bodies for medical research. Robbie sees a way to avenge his mother’s death. Convincing himself that Knox is having people killed for him to experiment on, Robbie eventually confronts him.
But Robbie comes to realise that for all his hard-heartedness and corrupt methods, Knox’s motives are ultimately for the good: to improve surgical conditions, and operate on patients with the greatest speed and therefore minimum risk. Robbie eventually trains to be a surgeon, finally giving meaning to his mother’s tragic death
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一八二二年，愛丁堡.
年僅八歲的羅比不幸失去了自己的媽媽。
母親因為飽受胸部腫瘤病痛的折磨，被送到了醫生諾克斯，但醫生卻在沒有實施麻醉的情況下進行手術，最終使得母親命喪手術臺。
羅比親眼目睹了這一切，並且在他心靈深處成了無法抹滅的陰霾。即使如此，羅比還是與父親及妹妹愛希相依為命，過著沒有母親的艱難生活。
可是嗜賭成性的父親最終還是傾家蕩產、拋家棄子，留下大筆的賭債，只留下羅比與妹妹在愛丁堡的貧民窟中相依為命。
直到羅比遇上了兩名不速之客: 伯克和哈爾，這兩人正是諾克斯醫生的員工，負責回收死者的屍體來做醫學實驗。
長久以來，羅比一直認為諾克斯是故意將病人醫死，藉此獲得人體從事實驗。因此，這無疑是向諾克斯展開復仇的良機。
不過在與諾克斯醫生真正有所接觸後，他才發現那些看上去冷酷無情的醫療手段，事實上全是出於這名醫生的一片好心：他之所以這樣做，都是為了改善手術環境、以最快的速度為病人開刀，並減低所有可能的風險。
明白諾克斯的心意後，羅比終於擺脫了憤恨，追隨諾克斯成為一名出色的外科醫生；也為母親的死亡，帶來了完全不同的意義。(AW & SK)
Awards/获奖情况：《青少年圖書雜誌》選為最佳年度讀物之一
榮獲2004年蘇格蘭年度青少年讀物獎
提名2004年美國圖書館學會最佳青少年讀物
提名2004.兒童圖書年度獎
提名2004年北拉納克郡圖書獎及北東圖書獎
This book grabs you and never lets you go.---The Glasgow Herald
Outstanding ... a book that deserves attention---The Bookseller
A gripping and intelligent read.---The Sunday Telegraph
’A dramatic and thought-provoking book. Nicola Morgan is a fine writer.’---David Almond
About the Author/作者介绍： 妮可菈 摩根着有超過70本以上關於在家學習的書籍、湯姆士小火車的系列書、一些廣受好評的青少年小說(9-18歲)，如Chicken Friend, The Highwayman’s Footsteps, The Highwayman’s Curse, Mondays Are Red, The Passionflower Massacre, Know Your Brain。她的小說Fleshmarket 及 Sleepwalking獲得蘇格蘭藝術協會獎項，Sleepwalking更獲得蘇格蘭年度青少年讀物獎。非小說Blame My Brain曾入圍艾凡提斯科學圖書大獎。
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