内容简介：
This is an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming...The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Costa Award winner Patrick Ness spins a tale from the final idea of much-loved Carnegie Medal winner Siobhan Dowd, whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself. Darkly mischievous and painfully funny, "A Monster Calls" is an extraordinarily moving novel of coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for young adults. This book is jacketed.
作者简介：
派崔克·奈斯（Patrick Ness）
1971年生于美国维吉尼亚州贝尔沃堡陆军基地，6岁之前在夏威夷度过。之后和家人移居华盛顿州，从小最大的嗜好就是编故事。大学就读美国南加大英语文学系。在牛津大学教授创意写作三年，他的学生往往比这位老师年纪还大。他还为英国最大的报纸诸如《泰晤士报》《每日电讯报》《卫报》等专业媒体撰写书评。《恶魔呼唤》是他的第二部青少年小说创作，出版后获得广大回响，横扫欧美各大文学奖项，并被众多杂志报纸推选为最佳书籍。此外，他身上有个犀牛纹身，跑过两次马拉松，是具有专业水准的潜水员，曾被电影学院录取，但为了学习写作而放弃这个机会。