The Penalty - Brossura

Peet, Mal

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0763643394 ISBN 13: 9780763643393

Casa editrice: Candlewick Pr, 2009

Riassunto

"Any reader who starts this astounding novel will be hard-pressed to put it
down. Stunning, original, and compelling." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

As the city of San Juan pulses to summer’s sluggish beat, its teenage soccer prodigy, El Brujito, the Little Magician, vanishes without a trace — right after he misses a penalty kick and loses a big game for his team. Sports reporter Paul Faustino is reluctantly drawn into the mystery of the athlete’s disappearance, and as a story of corruption and murder unfolds, must confront the bitter history of slavery and the power of the occult. This gripping novel from the author of KEEPER and TAMAR is not to be missed.

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Recensione:

"I can't begin to describe how terrific this book is. . . . A glorious, cartwheeling, magical, frightening story. . . . Peet uses the fact that soccer players are known to be superstitious — and that great soccer players can appear to be supernatural — to explore ideas of faith, luck, and corruption. But in doing that, he has somehow caught more of the magic and atmosphere of soccer than other, more straightforwardly descriptive writers." — Frank Cottrell Boyce, THE GUARDIAN

L'autore:

Mal Peet (1947–2015) is the acclaimed author of the Carnegie Medal–winning novelTamar as well as the Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Life: An Exploded Diagram and three Paul Faustino novels:Keeper, The Penalty, and Exposure, a winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. He is also the co-author of Cloud Tea Monkeys, Mysterious Traveler,and Night Sky Dragons, all of which he wrote with his wife, Elspeth Graham.

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• Editore: Candlewick Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0763643394
• ISBN 13: 9780763643393
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 262