هذه الرواية هي الجزء المتمم للرواية الأولى "طفل اسمه نكرة" ، أحب جداً أسلوب دايف بيلزر في صياغة أفكاره و ترتيبها بطريقة تجبرك على متابعة القراءة عدة ساعات ..

هذا الطفل عاش في طفولته تعذيباً قاسياً على يد أمه لسبب لا أحد يعلمه حتى الآن ، كانت تصب جام غضبها غير المفهوم عليه بوحشية مما دفعه للخروج من المنزل و التوجه نحو المقاطعة لتبدأ رحلته في بيوت التربية المختلفة ..

حين كان معظم أترابه يتباهون بثيابهم البراقة و صديقاتهم الجميلات كان هو يعمل حتى الواحدة أو الثانية صباحاً من كل ليلة ليتمكن من إعالة نفسه .. و بالرغم من كل شيء ، استطاع دايف تحقيق حلمه و تمكن من أن يكون "هو" كما أراد ..

عبارة لفتت نظري في الصفحات الاخيرة للرواية :

كنت أعمل أكثر من 48 ساعة أسبوعياً في مهن مختلفة ، و أدركت جيداً أنه ما من شيء تعلمته في الثانوية يمكن استعماله في العالم الحقيقي .

حقيقة صائبة بالتأكيد !

حياة مأساوية تكشف عنها أحداث هذه القصة التي
تلقي الضوء على المعاناة التي يلاقيها الأطفال
في بعض الأسر...هذا إذا جاز لنا تسميتها أسرة
أو عائلة.وسبحان الخالق كيف رسخت تلك التفاصيل
في عقل ذلك الطفل ليختزلها فيما بعد ويكتبها
كقصة أو سيرة لحياته.
ذكريات مأساوية لطفل...لا أدري الذنب الذي أقترفه
ليعامل أقل من الحيوانات والمصيبة من أمه.
وصدق الشاعر قديما حيث قال:
وظلم ذوي القربى أشد مضاضة
على النفس من وقع الحسام المهند.

از بین این سه‌گانه این رو از همه کم‌تر دوست داشتم. ولی خب واقعی بو! :) و من رو به شدت یاد کتابِ «دزد لعنتی» انداخت.
حرفی درموردِ این کتاب ندارم. باید این سه‌گانه رو خوند. همین.

~ از خانم توکّلی عزیز هم ممنونم!

An inspiring sequel. The perspective of this book is based on life of the boy as an adolescent. The author's experiences make us think about the churning emotions in our minds. It tells about the plight of the boy who searches desperately for the love of a family and an identity in the society.
A good book with emotions and thought provoking narration.

The book I read is called The Lost Boy. I really like this book. I like in some situations how David, the main character, handled himself. It is a very sad book, and it also tells a lot about a little boy’s family life.

This book starts out as David getting yelled at and abused by his mother. David is only nine. His mom calls them “games”, and to David, the only way to stay alive is to play those “games”, so his mom won’t hurt him as bad. One day he gets the chance to run away, so he takes it. He gets found by the police and his dad. His dad lies to the police saying that his mother doesn’t beat him. His dad also says that David says that for attention. His dad gets to take him back home, and everything starts all over again. He has a cot in the basement with no blankets. He has to sit there on his hands and not move, otherwise he will play another one of his Mother’s games. He eventually goes to court and put into a foster home. He gets into trouble after being at his first foster home. David gets taken to a facility, since there is nobody to take him in right now. He liked it there, until he got a visit from his father. His dad said that he messed up the family by exploiting their secret about the abuse. Now, she abuses the other boys. He moves from different homes throughout the years. When he turns 18 he gets his G.E.D. David then joins the air force.

I think this book would be good for teenagers. They are more mature and would understand the situations in the book better than a ten year old would. I give this book four stars.

A great follow up to "A child called it" but I still have so many questions! Why did his mom single him out? How are his brother's doing? Why was his mother never arrested? Why didn't his dad stand up for him? I'm hoping the answers come in book three.

I have to say that I find it so weird how much Dave cares for his mom and dad given all they put him through. He's a much stronger person than I am....

I would rate this book a 5/5. I rated The Lost Boy a 5/5 because i like how Dave is always talking about his stories. They make me feel really bad for him and make me want to make a change in the world or just help some people. I would recommend this book to people that like to read books that make you feel sad or you feel like you're in the book

i am reading this book it is really really good!

كلما انتهيت من رواية عظيمة يتضح إنها تروي واقعة حقيقية. مذهل كيف ممكن تكون حياة البعض مليئة بهذا القدر من التجارب حتى لو كان مجملها مآساوي.
حسيت بديفد الطفل المضطهد. وكيف ممكن يوصل الإنسان لمرحلة يكاد يفقد فيها عقله بسبب التأثير السلبي للناس من حوله، فعلاً الناس مرعبين.

يالله فعلاً من رحم المعاناة يكتشف الشخص أفضل صوره.. حبيت الرواية جداً، كرهت دار النشر *العربية للعلوم* ترجمة رديئة للغاية ولكن ما يضر إن الرواية تستحق خمس نجوم.

أتمنى أتعلم كديفد ولكن بطريقة أقل وجعاً.

A story of a boy who was tortured and abused by his own mother and rescued by child services to begin a new journey inside the system and foster houses.

It was a foster boy who was going through hell. It had his struggles as a young child. He was extremely abused. His father left him, and his mother was the one abusing him. It went to a foster home after going through hell for so many years of his life. When It was in the foster home, he still faced struggles with what has happened to him, and had trust issues. It got old enough to the point where he was allowed to leave the foster home. That will lead into the next book called “A Man Named David."

David is the growing boy that was put in foster care at a young age. He was put there for all the abuse that his mother was doing to him. His mother never had a name in the book but she was big part of Dave's life, and not in the best way. There is he foster care people who helped Dave get through life and helped him understand the importance of living life.

The setting takes place on March 5, 1973, in a California foster care facility. The importance of this setting is, because this was where Dave lived over half his life. In the next book you will see that Californian is where Dave ends up settling his life after foster care.

The theme is that life will always throw you problems that are harder than some people may know, but you can always get past them with strength and time. The book gets its theme form the things that happen in the book. In the book Dave was abused and then put in foster care, where he was not about to let life knock him back down.

I would recommend this book to any age, because this book is really heart touching, and there are more kids out there going through this than we know.

17/85, 5 stars *****

This book made me cry. One of the most heartbreaking things about this time period for the author (ages 12-18) is that all he still wanted, despite everything his mother had done to him, was her love and to know why she treated him the way she did. Ultimately, he manages to forgive both her for her abuse and his father for his neglect and I find it all so amazing. This author is truly inspirational. By telling his story, he teaches resilience and forgiveness and shows how the human spirit can succeed in the face of the worst kind of adversity. What he went on to do with his life is quite simply phenomenal! I'll say it again - he is truly inspirational.