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Shadow lives in the forest/It goes forth at night/to prowl around the fires/It even likes to mingle/with the dancers/Shadow/It waves with the grasses/curls up at the foot of trees...

But in the African experience Shadow is much more. The village storytellers and shamans of an Africa that is passing into memory called forth for the poet Blaise Cendrars an eerie image, shifting between the beliefs of the present and the spirits of the past. Marcia Brown's stunning illustrations in collage, inspired by her travels in Africa, evoke the atmosphere and drama of a life now haunted, now enchanted by Shadow.

火光中、月光下、灯光里，只要有光就有影子，只要有火就有影子。影子不停跳跃、舞蹈，像是有生命的精灵，在非洲古老的文化中，在非洲口传文学里，影子确实有了生命，有了它自己的故事。玛西娅•布朗译自法国诗人布莱斯•桑德拉尔的同名诗歌，创作了这本《影子》，她采用剪影、拼贴的方式来展现影子的意象，用淳烈的深色为基调表现非洲森林火堆旁的故事，形象鲜明，意蕴深长，达到了表现力的极致。有评论家说，如果要他选出世界十大绘本，他会把《影子》选进去，而且排在最前面。