Midnight Robber - Brossura

Hopkinson, Nalo

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0446675601 ISBN 13: 9780446675604

Casa editrice: Grand Central Publishing, 2000

Riassunto

It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. But to you Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to weart at the festival -- untiel her power-coprrupted father commits an unforgivable crime.

Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree. Here monstrous creatures from folkklore are real, and the humans are violent outcasts in the wilds. Here Tan-Tan must redeach into the heart of myth -- and become the Robber Queen herself. For only the Robber Queen's legendary powers can save her life...and set her free.

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Recensione:

"Deeply satisfying...succeeds on a grand scale...best of all is the language....Hopkinson's narrative voice has a way of getting under the skin."―The New York Times Book Review

"Caribbean patois adorns this novel with graceful rhythms...Beneath it lie complex, clearly evoked characters, haunting descriptions of exotic planets, and a stirring story...[This book] ought to elevate Hopkinson to star status."―Seattle Times

"Spicy and distinctive, set forth in a thoroughly captivating Caribbean dialect."―Kirkus Reviews

"Hopkinson's rich and complex Carib English is...quite beautiful...believable, lushly detailed worlds...extremely well-drawn...Hopkinson owns one of the more important and original voices in SF."―Publishers Weekly

"Highly recommended."―Library Journal

"...employs Caribbean folk elements to tell a story that is by turns fantastic, allegorical and contemporary."―Washington Post

Descrizione del libro:

Rediscover Nalo Hopkinson's previous books, now with fresh new covers.

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• Editore: Grand Central Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0446675601
• ISBN 13: 9780446675604
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352