Cemetery Book
Author: Neil Gaiman
Original Title: The Graveyard Book
Editorial: Rock Pocket
256 pages
ISBN: 9788492833177
1 ª Edition: 2011 - Barcelona
'The Graveyard Book is endlessly imaginative, skillfully narrated as Nad same, too smart to fall within a single audience: this book is for everyone. You'll love to die. " Holly Black, co-creadora de Las crónicas de Spiderwick.
Escuchad esta trágica historia: una familia que duerme, un asesino sin compasión y una criatura aventurera, un huérfano que escapa de la muerte. ¿O no? El pequeño escapa del peligro y consigue gatear hasta lo más alto de la colina. Detrás de la valla que se encuentra, existe un lugar oscuro y tranquilo, un cementerio lleno de una vida especial. El niño es recibido allí donde los muertos no duermen y todos los que allí habitan deciden brindarle su protección, porque fuera, tras the fence that separates the city of ghosts, vile murderer waits patiently.
The child without parents, no place in the world, no name, will be welcomed by friendly spirits who make a pact to protect it. Nobody will call him, because it looks like nobody but himself. Nad to be their "parents" Nad to his playmates, children never grow up, Nad for your mentor. And No to the man who seeks to kill him.
Winning novel of the 2009 Newberry Medal for Best Novel American youth.
Neil Gaiman has been my great literary discovery. It is true that he had seen some of their creations through the big screen as Coraline or Stardust, but it was his prose and inventiveness that has truly amazed and captivated me. The argument that opens the synopsis of this Cemetery Book, as it is catchy and one can expect anything from a child murderer escapes from his family and has just wrapped by the spirits of the dead who inhabit the cemetery the hill close to home. All this is just the tip of the iceberg, as the story unfolds much more complex, finding unusual creatures with a mystique that continues to the end. With Gaiman, one realizes that there is still inventive in literature and history can surprise us. This history, and mystery, it contains a heavy dose of intrigue and why not, tenderness. Tenderness, closer to the bizarre and the unusual fussiness, seen, it is something that is hard to explain. What is clear is that the author knows how to bring this story not to relax the tension, trapping the reader from beginning to end. Gaiman explains in the epilogue that is a novel that has been sitting for over twenty years to write, which means that he has thought long and has chewed thoroughly. He also talks about all the help they received from their friends and others understood and that is one of the great wonders of this novel, at any time you notice that part of what the author shows us is the result of a work of documentation, so naturally you into the story of the protagonist that details not only clutter, but greatly enrich the plot.
The baby Owen hosting the live here its first fifteen years of life under the name of Nobody, baptism makes him capita Honorary cemetery. Female Jack to escape, the murderer of his parents and his sister, No one will be the target of a dark force that slowly unravels throughout the novel. Meanwhile, Owen promise to the spirits of their parents (before the forced migration of the place) that will take care of the baby. Also no one will pay, for their protection and education, a strange man who nor alive nor dead which is known as Silas, he will ensure the survival of the baby; the end of the human with human needs. The child will learn to cope from the dead and other beings and to use techniques of ghosts plus the same for a child his age to read and write. Desvelaré No more of this story to anyone who wants to delve into its pages to marvel and daydream as I did. It is certainly a highly recommended novel, full of magic that makes the imagination is fired. A book well worth reading. A great discovery.
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