From 1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It. "This is King at his best" The St. Louis Post-Dispatch . In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents--telekinesis and telepathy--who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, "like the roach motel," Kalisha says. "You check in, but you don't check out." In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don't, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute. As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute "is another winner: creepy and touching and horrifyingly believable, all at once" The Boston Globe
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Stephen King es autor de más de sesenta libros, todos ellos best sellers internacionales. Sus títulos más recientes son Si te gusta la oscuridad, Holly, Cuento de hadas, Billy Summers , Después, La sangre manda, El Instituto , Elevación, El visitante cuya adaptación audiovisual se estrenó en MAX en enero de 2020 , La caja de botones de Gwendy con Richard Chizmar , Bellas durmientes con su hijo Owen King , El bazar de los malos sueños y la trilogía Bill Hodges Mr. Mercedes, Quien pierde paga y Fin de guardia . La novela 22 11 63 convertida en serie de televisión en Hulu fue elegida por The New York Times Book Review como una de las diez mejores novelas de 2011 y por Los Angeles Times como la mejor novela de intriga del año. Los libros de la serie La Torre Oscura e It han sido adaptados al cine, junto con parte de sus clásicos, como Misery, El resplandor, Carrie, El juego de Gerald y La zona muerta.
