Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him

　　亞諾‧戴勒蒙特爾、大衛巴第 在眾多狗狗書裡，《小狗星期二》以真實故事打動人心，
　　述說著身心受傷的人們，如何在與狗狗的互動中，逐漸找回生命的力量。

在書中，不論是受刑人、被遺棄的男孩或受傷復健的美國軍人，甚至是協助犬協會創辦人，他們的人生故事都令人動容，書中的每一滴淚水、每一個笑容，都真實發生過……

　　當你已經放棄一切，甚至關閉自己的感覺，不再把自己當成一個人時，卻遇到了人生的轉機──

　　他們在一隻狗的無辜眼神中，看到對自己的愛，甚至對自己無條件的信任，漸漸地，他們有了改變人生的動力。

　　「有星期二在旁，我覺得很安全，
　　彷彿我擁抱了當下，過去的種種已遠颺。
　　我就這樣擁著牠，頭歪在枕頭和牠寬厚的肩膀之間，
　　靜靜聽著牠溫柔的呼吸與心跳，沉沉睡去。」

　　「這是我和星期二的故事──在相遇之前，我們各自走過怎樣的路、經歷了多少曲折，才有了相遇的必然。

　　我們並非生來契合，卻正好應了彼此的需要。

　　牠給我自由，把我拉出恐懼的漩渦深處，也因此給了我再次開始的機會。

　　如此開朗、熱愛生命的狗狗，每分每秒有牠為伴，怎麼可能不跟牠一起擁抱人生？

　　這種不需言語的友誼，正是生命之所以美好的原因。」

　　★本書中譯版《小狗星期二》由遠流出版

A heartwarming dog story like no other: Tuesday, a lovable golden retriever, changes a former soldier’s life forever.

A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army, Luis Montalván never backed down from a challenge during his two tours of duty in Iraq. After returning home from combat, however, his physical wounds and crippling post-traumatic stress disorder began to take their toll. He wondered if he would ever recover.

Then Luis met Tuesday, a sensitive golden retriever trained to assist people with disabilities. Tuesday had lived among prisoners and at a home for troubled boys, and he found it difficult to trust in or connect with a human being-until Luis.

Until Tuesday is the story of how two wounded warriors, who had given so much and suffered the consequences, found salvation in each other. It is a story about war and peace, injury and recovery, psychological wounds and spiritual restoration. But more than that, it is a story about the love between a man and dog, and how, together, they healed each other’s souls.

作者簡介

路易斯．卡洛斯．蒙塔望（Luis Carlos Montalvan）

　　美國陸軍服役17年的退役上尉，曾榮獲戰鬥行動徽章、兩枚銅星勳章、一枚紫心勳章。他撰寫的文章經常發表於《紐約時報》、《華盛頓郵報》、《舊金山紀事報》、《國際先驅論壇報》等。同時，美國國家公共廣播電台（NPR）、美國哥倫比亞廣播公司（CBS）、美國有線電視新聞網（CNN）、英國廣播公司（BBC）、美國有線電視頻道（C-SPAN）、國家地理頻道（National Geographic）、新聞節目「民主現況」（Democracy Now!）也都曾報導他在戰爭中的英勇行為。他現居於布魯克林區，正在攻讀第二個碩士學位：策略傳播。

Luis Carlos Montalván is a 17 year veteran and retired Captain of the US Army where he earned the Combat Action Badge, two Bronze Stars, and the Purple Heart. Luis’ writing is published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The International Herald Tribune (among others), and NPR, CBS, AFP, BBC, C-SPAN, ANP, and Democracy Now have all featured his amazing personal tale and vocal criticism of the war. Luis lives in Brooklyn and is a student at The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. www.luiscarlosmontalvan.com

Bret Witter is the writer behind Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, which spent months on the Times Bestseller List and has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide.