Recensione:
PRAISE FOR THE HOUSE OF THE SCORPION
"This is a powerful, ultimately hopeful story that builds on today's sociopolitical, ethical, and scientific issues and prognosticates a compelling picture of what the future could bring. All of these serious issues are held together by a remarkable coming-of-age story." -Booklist, starred review
"An inspiring tale of friendship, survival, hope, and transcendence." -Kirkus, starred review
"Farmer's novel may be futuristic, but it hits close to home, raising questions of what it means to be human, what is the value of life, and what are the responsibilities of a society. Readers will be hooked from the first page."-Publishers Weekly, starred review
"This is mind-expanding fiction for older teens that also works for adults - think Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Orwell's 1984 or Nevil Shute's On the Beach." -USA Today
L'autore:
Nancy Farmer has written three Newbery Honor Books: A Girl Named Disaster, The Ear, The Eye and the Arm, The House of the Scorpion, which also won the National Book Award and received a Printz Honor. She grew up on the border between Arizona and Mexico in the landscape that she evokes so strongly in her disturbing futuristic adventure The House of the Scorpion. Nancy Farmer lives with her family in Menlo Park, California.
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