简介
In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years. And immediately to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village is named. Here in the town of Wall, Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester. One crisp October night, as they watch, a star falls from the sky, and Victoria promises to marry Tristran if he ll retrieve that star and bring it back for her. It is this promise that sends Tristran through the only gap in the wall, across the meadow, and into the most unforgettable adventure of his life.In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years. And immediately to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village is named. Here in the town of Wall, Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester. One crisp October night, as they watch, a star falls from the sky, and Victoria promises to marry Tristran if he ll retrieve that star and bring it back for her. It is this promise that sends Tristran through the only gap in the wall, across the meadow, and into the most unforgettable adventure of his life. 《星尘》远不止是个童话,它有幸福的结局,却依然透出人类永恒的悲伤。很久很久以前,英格兰有一个宁静的小村庄,村庄被鹅卵石城墙所包围,所以称为“石墙村”。虽然只是薄薄一面城墙,却世世代代地保护着这里的村民,因为一墙之隔的外面世界,是充满奇迹和意外的仙境。特里斯坦·桑恩是个再普通不过的年轻人,他爱上了村里最美丽的姑娘维多利亚,并许下诺言,要带回天上落下的星星来献给维多利亚。为了心中至爱,特里斯坦冒险穿越那道象征着禁忌的城墙,进入另一个世界——那里有风起云涌的风暴堡,神秘邪恶的女巫,古怪滑稽的魔法。当特里斯坦最终到达流星降落之地时,他看到的竟然不是预期中的陨石,而是一个美丽、勇敢的女人……在猝然坠落地球之时,“星星”不小心崴了脚,然而这只是一切不幸的开始而已,打从她脚落地开始,各种意料不到的危险便悄然降临了。
版权
出版社HarperCollins US
出版时间2000年1月