＊ 作者本身拥有所有图片版权，可以包括在内（英文版本没有图片）
＊ 本书在西班牙获得2008年Camino del Cid最佳旅游书奖
在这本获奖的散文集中，西班牙第一报纸El Mundo的亚洲办事处局长David
Jiménez透过儿童的故事来叙述亚洲不断改变的面相。从泰国的一位冷漠的年青
泰拳击手，到蒙古的一群地下儿童，到柬埔寨的一位患有爱滋病的女孩，到西藏
的青年僧侣。这些孩子都代表了亚洲现在不稳定以及不公平的状态。在这里，季
风雨是人造的，也是自然的。这些散文充满了情绪，他们沟通了孩子们的恐惧以
及对于明天的希望。
本书的十位主角是来自亚洲各地的孩子，都是作者在他当作记者的旅途上认识的孩子。多年后，他回去寻找这些孩子，想知道他们最后是什么命运，以及他们的国家（柬埔寨、中国、蒙古、北韩、泰国、印尼等等）有什么改变。这些充满情绪的故事不全是开心的结果，但是他们所有人的故事都可以带给读者一写重要的思考。
作者的话：
“Children of the Monsoon is not intended to be a true portrayal of Asia or its people. Asia is too large, diverse and complex to describe it in a thousand articles or a single book. The continent has lived in recent years the largest, most rapid and successful transformation of History, but also bringing poverty to hundreds of millions people and showing the world that poverty can be left back. If I chose to tell the life of those who have failed to get good opportunities, often crushed by a model that has silent their voices, is because their stories are filled with courage and dignity” David Jiménez, author of Children of the Monsoon
书评：
"A tour de force of literary journalism. Haunted by the children he has encountered as a correspondent in Asia, David Jiménez goes back years later to find them —in a kickboxing gym in Thailand, an AIDS-ravaged corner of Cambodia, a refuse dump in the Philippines. The stories that emerge are a work of searing honesty and humanity. With prose as sharp as a machete, Jiménez captures the harshness and beauty of these children's invisible worlds, where destinies, like the monsoon rains, are beyond control, yet dreams refuse to die.” —Brook Larmer, author of Operation Yao Ming
“A heartbreaking and beautifully written book.” —El Cultural magazine
“A journalistic battle against the demons of cynicism.” —La Republica
“An indispensable work up to the best Literary reportage from Mailer, Capote or Kapuscinski." —Pedro J. Ramírez, editor-in-chief of El Mundo
关于作者：
David Jiménez是一位获奖西班牙记者。他曾为 CNN以及 BBC，意大利报纸 Il Corriere della Sera、《卫报》、 Sunday Times以及 Toronto Star报导。他是西班牙报纸El Mundo的亚洲派驻记者。
