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This is a juvenile novel full of relativity: good and bad, light and dark, life and death, virtual and reality. The author David Almond cleverly weaves several different elements together through this book-the owner Wong Kit's concern for grandpa, sympathy for Escu, his school life, and the uneasiness of death … In the process of reading, the reader naturally followed Kitt between his daily life and the ghosts of the past. The author fuses magical realism into a heartbreaking real world. He designed a layered plot like a joke--the brain degraded grandfather's imagination in reality and dreams; the enthusiastic female classmate Ai Li's personality emission of Light and heat; Kitt's story inspired by his grandfather magically linked the relationship between Escu and his mother and sister, and thus redeemed Escu by weaving darkness and light, past and present life together.

這是一部充滿相對性的少年小說：好與壞，明與暗，生與死，虛與實。作者大衛‧艾蒙（David Almond）藉由本書，巧妙地把幾種不同的元素編織在一起──主人翁基特對爺爺的關心，對艾司庫的同情，他的學校生活，對於死亡的不安……讀者在閱讀的過程中，很自然而然地跟著基特穿梭於他的日常生活與過往的鬼魂之間。作者把魔幻寫實主義融合進一個令人心碎的現實世界，他像變戲法般設計了層層疊疊的情節──腦筋退化的爺爺在現實與夢境中的虛虛實實；活潑熱情的女同學愛莉所散發出的光和熱；基特受到爺爺的啟發而寫的故事，竟神奇地牽繫著艾司庫與母親和妹妹的親情，並因此使艾司庫得到救贖──將黑暗與光明、前世與今生巧妙地編織在一起。

這本書的特別之處還在於故事之中還有故事。我們不止被基特與艾司庫的遭遇深深吸引，也著迷於基特在書中創造出的「拉克的故事」，一個在遠古的冰河時期，掙扎著生存的原始少年的遭遇。這個故事中的故事，更增加了小說的張力與懸疑感。