《Heart of a Samurai》是2012年ABRAMS出版的圖書，作者是Preus, Margi。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Heart of a Samurai
- 作者：Preus, Margi
- 出版社：ABRAMS
- ISBN：9781419702006
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
A Japanese fishing vessel in 1841 sinks and its crew swims to a small unknown island to be rescued by a passing American ship. At the time, the Japanese borders were closed to all western nations so the Japanese sailors are frightened of their captors. They cannot return to Japan because the western ship will not be allowed into port, and even if it was, the fishing crew would end up in prison (or even put to death) as associates of the west. So the crew goes off to America with the western ship, learning English on the way. Our hero is Manjiro, a 14 year old boy, who is very curious and learns everything he can about this new culture. He ends up being adopted by the captain of the western ship and lives for a time in New England. Then he heads to San Francisco to pan for gold, but eventually he makes his way back to Japan where at first he is imprisoned, but then later helps the emperor to lower the wall around Japan. The emperor calls him a samurai, which had always been the boy's dream.
作者簡介
瑪吉·普羅伊斯
（Margi Preus）
美國兒童文學作家兼劇作家。《鯨武士》是她的第一本長篇小說，即一舉奪得紐伯瑞文學獎銀獎。她在偶然間發現了萬次郎的故事，立刻被深深吸引：一個勇敢的男孩，促進兩個原本敵對的國家互相了解、萌發友誼。作者為本書兩度造訪日本，也去了萬次郎的家鄉，蒐集了許多第一手的歷史資料。她在那裡享用鯛魚拌飯，使用筷子的天分技驚四座，雖然可能只有她自己這么想。
瑪吉·普羅伊斯現居明尼蘇達州杜魯市，擔任“湖濱更冷喜劇劇場”導演，並於聖者學院教授兒童文學。
