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The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two: From the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials - now a major BBC series: Book of Dust

Autor Philip Pullman Ilustrat de Christopher Wormell
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241373347
ISBN-10: 0241373344
Pagini: 704
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 51 mm
Greutate: 0.85 kg
Editura: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Colecția Penguin and David Fickling Books
Seria Book of Dust

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Philip Pullman (Author)
PhilipPullmanwas born in Norwich and educated in England, Zimbabwe, Australia and Wales. He studied English at Exeter College, Oxford.

His first children's book, Count Karlstein, was published in 1982. To date, he has published thirty-three books, read by children and adults alike. His most famous work is the His Dark Materials trilogy. These books have been honoured by several prizes including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Book Prize, and (for The Amber Spyglass) the Whitbread Book of the Year Award - the first time that prize had been given to a children's book. Pullman has received numerous other awards, including the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Astrid Lindgren Award. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year's Honours List for Services to Literature.

Christopher Wormell (Illustrator)
Chris Wormell is an award-winning, well-loved illustrator and storyteller. Most recently, he has illustrated the cover of Philip Pullman'sThe Book of Dust, and has lent his woodcut style toDinosaurium. Chris has created many award-winning books, includingMolly and the Night Monster(shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal),Two Frogs(winner of the Nestlé Bronze Award), andOne Smart Fish(winner of the Booktrust Early Years Awards Best Picture Book).His books include the much-lovedGeorge and the Dragonand alsoScruffy Bear and the Six White Mice(winner of the Children's Book Award).



Recenzii

A rich, imaginative, vividly characterised rite-of-passage tale
The Secret Commonwealthis ablaze with light and life. The writing is exquisite; every sentence sings ... To read Pullman is to experience the world refreshed, aglow, in Technicolour
Lyra is all grown up in a rich, vivid sequel
Pullman's story is still thought-provoking ... This book elegantly weaves in live issues, from Europe's refugee crisis to facts in the post-truth era. And Pullman's prose is rewarding as ever
The novel gallops forward, full of danger, delight and surprise. Nearly miraculous, it seems, is Pullman's ability to sketch character, place and motive in just a few lines
A long, taxing, complex journey, laced with beauty, terror and philosophy
As ever, Pullman's story is complex and vast but home to some of the finest storytelling in the 21st century. Revel in whole new worlds and enjoy one of literature's most wonderful heroines before she comes to HBO and the BBC
Pullman is confronting readers with the horrors of our own world reflected back at us. InThe Secret Commonwealthhe creates a fearful symmetry
Pullman has created a fantasy world, made yet more satisfying in this new volume. This is a book for getting older with
REVIEWS FORLA BELLE SAUVAGE: THE BOOK OF DUST VOLUME ONE:

Fans of His Dark Materials will find themselves joyfully immersed in a familiar world . . . meanwhile, awaiting first-time readers is all the pleasure of commencing their own journey into this most captivating of universes at the very beginning of Lyra's story

No one else writes like Pullman . . . entirely worth the 17-year wait
High-octane adventure accompanies ingenious plotting

Descriere

It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.

It is almost ten years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground-breaking, bestselling His Dark Materials sequence.

Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue.

And she is no longer a child . . .

 

The second volume of Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust sees Lyra, now twenty years old, and her daemon Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they could never have imagined, and drawn into the complex and dangerous factions of a world that they had no idea existed.

Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm; once a boy with a boat and a mission to save a baby from the flood, now a man with a strong sense of duty and a desire to do what is right.

Theirs is a world at once familiar and extraordinary, and they must travel far beyond the edges of Oxford, across Europe and into Asia, in search for what is lost - a city haunted by daemons, a secret at the heart of a desert, and the mystery of the elusive Dust.

 

The Secret Commonwealth is truly a book for our times; a powerful adventure and a thought-provoking look at what it is to understand yourself, to grow up and make sense of the world around you. This is storytelling at its very best from one of our greatest writers.

Reviews for La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One:

'Fans of His Dark Materials will find themselves joyfully immersed in a familiar world . .

. meanwhile, awaiting first-time readers is all the pleasure of commencing their own journey into this most captivating of universes at the very beginning of Lyra's story' Independent

'No one else writes like Pullman . .

. entirely worth the 17-year wait' Metro

'A rich, imaginative, vividly characterised rite-of-passage tale' Sunday Times

'High-octane adventure accompanies ingenious plotting' The Times