winner Of The 2008 John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize
• A washington Post Best Book Of 2008
• A kirkus Reviews Best Book Of 2008 richly Imagined And Gothically Spooky, the Good Thief Introduces One Of The Most Appealing Young Heroes In Contemporary Fiction And Ratifies Hannah Tinti As One Of Our Most Exciting Talents Writing Today. twelve Year-old Ren Is Missing His Left Hand. How It Was Lost Is A Mystery That Ren Has Been Trying To Solve For His Entire Life, As Well As Who His Parents Are, And Why He Was Abandoned As An Infant At Saint Anthony’s Orphanage For Boys. When A Young Man Named Benjamin Nab Appears, Claiming To Be Ren’s Long-lost Brother, His Convincing Tale Of How Ren Lost His Hand Persuades The Monks At The Orphanage To Release The Boy And To Give Ren Some Hope. But Is Benjamin Really Who He Says He Is? As Ren Is Introduced To A Life Of Hardscrabble Adventure Filled With Outrageous Scam Artists, Grave Robbers, And Petty Thieves, He Begins To Suspect That Benjamin Not Only Holds The Key To His Future, But To His Past As Well….
the Washington Post - Ron Charles it May Be Too Quaint To Imagine There Are Still Families Reading Aloud Together At Night (so Many Web Sites, So Little Time), But If You're Out There, Consider Hannah Tinti's Charming First Novel. Set In The Dark Woods Of 19th-century New England, the Good Thief Follows A Bright, One-handed Orphan Through Enough Harrowing Scrapes And Turns To Satisfy Your Inner Dickens…ren's Plight Is Creaky With Sentimentality, But Tinti Knows How To Keep Her Balance As She Steps Through These Hoary Conventions Of Victorian Melodrama. By The Time She Finishes Describing Ren's Little Collection Of Stolen Objects And His Muted Despair, I Wanted To Sign The Adoption Papers Myself.

The Good Thief (chinese Edition)

好賊 = The good thief

Tinti, Hannah; Lu, Qiuying

亭蒂 (Tinti, Hannah)

Hannah Tinti

Mu Ma Wen Hua/tsai Fong Books

Ecus Publishing House

木馬文化出版 : 遠足文化發行

木馬文化事業股份有限公司

Mu ma wen xue, 41, Chu ban, Taibei Xian xin dian shi, 2009[minguo 98

Taiwan, Taiwan

Xiao shuo.
Translation of: The good thief.

Growing up in a New England orphanage unaware of his family and of how he had lost his left hand as an infant, twelve-year-old Ren is terrified of the future, until a young man shows up claiming to be his long-lost brother, with whom he embarks on an adventure-filled odyssey of scam artists, petty criminals, and resurrection men

317 p. ; 21 cm
Xiao shuo
Translation of: The good thief

2023-10-09