THE SUBTLE KNIFE - HIS DARK MATERIALS 2
The spellbinding sequel to The Golden Compass, the modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time," continues the epic adventure, catapulting readers between worlds, and toward a devastating discovery.
Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will-a boy on the run, a murderer-a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels.
Each is searching-Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father-but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, their destinies are bound together...until they are split apart.
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PHILIP PULLMAN
Is one of the most acclaimed writers working today. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass , which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time by Newsweek and one of the all-time greatest novels by Entertainment Weekly. He has also won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal for The Golden Compass and the reader-voted "Carnegie of Carnegies" for the best children's book of the past seventy years ; the Whitbread now Costa Award for The Amber Spyglass; a Booker Prize long-list nomination The Amber Spyglass ; Parents' Choice Gold Awards The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass ; and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in honor of his body of work. In 2004, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
It has recently been announced that The Book of Dust, the much anticipated new book from Mr. Pullman, also set in the world of His Dark Materials, will be published as a major work in three parts, with the first part to arrive in October 2017.
Edad recomendada: a partir de 13 años
PULLMAN PHILIP
Autor inglés, Philip Pullman estudió en el Exeter College de Oxford, tras lo que comenzó a trabajar como profesor de enseñanza primaria. Ya entonces empezó a escribir sus primeros relatos dedicados a la literatura infantil, así como varias piezas teatrales.
Tras una novela de ciencia ficción publicada en 1978, Galatea, decidió especializarse por fin en la novela infantil y juvenil mientras trabajaba para el Westminster College de Oxford. Su primer gran éxito le llegó en 1995 con la publicación de Luces del norte, primera parte de una serie de gran éxito en todo el mundo y que fue adaptada al cine y a la televisión.
A lo largo de su carrera, Pullman ha recibido numerosos premios como la Carnegie Medal, el Premio Guardian de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil o el Memorial Astrid Lindgren. Es un colaborador habitual de varios medios de comunicación y ha destacado por sus firmes posiciones sobre temas como la libertad de pensamiento, los derechos civiles o el ateísmo.