Did Siobhan Dowd write A Monster Calls?

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Farnoush Fdi · 2026-09-26T07:06:07.000000Z

داستان درباره ی پسری به اسم کانر که مادرش سرطان داره و امروزو فرداس که بمیره! ولی کانر حاضر به پذیرش این حقیقت نیست. او هر شب کابوس وحشتناکی رو می بینه که از همان ابتدا به یکی از معماهای کتاب تبدیل میشه! این کابوس چیه؟ چرا کانر رو انقدر به وحشت میندازه و باعث میشه از خودش بدش بیاد؟! تو این کابوس چی کار کرده؟! در همین حین یه هیولای دیگه که تجسمی از درخت سرخدار بالای تپه ی نزدیک خونشونه، بسراغش میاد و میخواد 3 تا داستان تعریف کنه و بجای آن از کانر می خواد کابوسش رو براش بگه و دربارش حرف بزنه. در این بین برای کانر هم یه سری اتفاقایی در مدرسه میوفته که بقیه ی داستان رو شکل میده! شاید حق این کتاب 3 ستاره باشه! ولی در حال حاضر انقدر بخاطر اون اسپین آف ضعیف دکتر هو، کلاس، از دست پاتریک نس عصبانیم، که بیشتر از 2 ستاره نمی تونم بهش امتیاز بدم :| البته داستان لحظات خوب هم داره، و از نظر احساسی، وقتی آدم رو با موضوع از دست دادن یک عزیزی رو به رو می کنه خیلی تاثیر گذاره. ولی داخل شخصیتا و دیالوگا من نتونستم چیز خوب یا جذابی پیدا کنم!

No. Siobhan Dowd conceived the original idea, characters, and beginning of the story, but she died of cancer in August 2007 before she could write the novel herself. Walker Books then asked Patrick Ness to write the book from her concept; the finished novel is credited "A novel by Patrick Ness, inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd," and is illustrated by Jim Kay. It won the 2012 Carnegie Medal (writing) and Kate Greenaway Medal (illustration) — the first book to win both in the same year.

A Monster Calls

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Fairy Tales Folklore

Pages: 224
Published: 2011
Language: English

Synopsis

Thirteen-year-old Conor O'Malley has been having the same nightmare every night since his mother began her treatments. Then, at seven minutes past midnight, a different monster comes walking. Ancient, wild, and rooted in the old yew tree on the hill behind his house, it is nothing like the creature from his dream. This monster wants something Conor cannot bring himself to give: the truth.

Set in contemporary England, A Monster Calls follows a boy trying to hold his life together as his mother grows sicker, the kids at school treat him as invisible or worse, and a brittle grandmother moves into the space his father long ago vacated. The monster promises to tell Conor three stories, and in return it demands a fourth — Conor's own, the one hiding behind the nightmare he refuses to name.

Written by Patrick Ness from an idea conceived by Siobhan Dowd before her death, and illustrated in stark, haunting ink by Jim Kay, this Carnegie Medal-winning novel is an unflinching, deeply humane fable about grief, anger, and the hard mercy of honesty. Short, fierce, and quietly shattering, it speaks to readers of every age who have ever had to let someone go.