How Jack Lost Time

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ジャックは他の船長とは違っていました。
漁師たちは彼を変わり者だと言いましたが、ジャックは一つのことだけを気にかけていました。
それは、何年も前に息子のジュロスを飲み込んだ傷のある背びれを持つクジラのこと。
ジャックは息子のジュロスを見つけるまで、家には帰らないと誓いました。自分自身を失ってしまうかもしれないということを承知の上で……。

息子を海で失ったジャック。孤独の中で、息子を見つけるために、海での生活を続けていきます。
現代の海の寓話が心の奥底に触れていきます。愛と喪失、悲しみと家族の心を描いた、美しくも切ない海の物語です。

How Jack Lost Time
Contributor(s): Lapointe, Stéphanie (Author) , Côté-LaCroix, Delphie (Illustrator) , Aaronson, Arielle (Translator)
EAN: 9781771647571
Publisher: Greystone Kids
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: October 13, 2020
Target Age Group: 09 to 12
Physical Info: 1.52 cms H x 25.65 cms L x 19.05 cms W (0.54 kgs) 96 pages

Publisher Marketing:
An artful and timeless exploration of love, loss, grief, and family, How Jack Lost Time will appeal to readers of Charlie Mackesy's The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse, and other picture books for older readers and adults.

Jack is not like other sea captains. Fishermen say he's weird, but Jack only cares about one thing: the grey whale with the scarred dorsal fin, the one who swallowed up his son, Julos, years before. Jack promises he will not come home without Julos, even if it means losing himself in the process. Then, on a night like any other, Jack sees something lurking around his boat. He throws himself into the whale's dark mouth. But is he too late? Will his son recognize him after years of being alone?

Poignant, original, and vibrant, this contemporary nautical fable journeys into the heart of the human spirit, and will move readers young and old.

Winner of the 2019 Governor General's Award for Youth Literature--French Language