Forest of the pygmies

R$ 124,90

Sinopse

Grade 7-10–In the final installment of a trilogy that began with City of the Beasts (2002) and Kingdom of the Golden Dragon (2004, both HarperCollins), 18-year-old Alexander Cold, his globe-trotting journalist grandmother, and their 15-year-old friend, Nadia, travel to Kenya to take an elephant safari. Soon, the party takes a detour to the jungle to find some missing missionaries, and, in the process becomes embroiled in a messy bit of business. It involves a military man who has taken over a village and terrorized and enslaved the local Bantu and Pygmy tribes. Although this adventure can stand alone, the amazing abilities of Alexander and Nadia (which include turning into their "totems" of a jaguar and an eagle, talking with animals, and becoming invisible) may strike newcomers to the series as somewhat jarring, not to mention rather too convenient to the plot. The language can be lyrical and several of the characters (especially Angie, the almost-fearless female African pilot) are charismatic, but too often the emotions and personalities of Alexander and Nadia are narrated in long passages instead of shown through action and dialogue, creating an emotional distance that detracts from an otherwise fine adventure tale. Buy where the first two books are popular.–

Participantes

Autor: Isabel Allende

Tradutor: Margaret Sayers Peden

Autor

ISABEL ALLENDE

Isabel Allende nasceu em 1942, no Peru, onde seu pai era diplomata. Viveu no Chile entre 1945 e 1975, com longos períodos de residência em outros lugares, na Venezuela até 1988 e, a partir de então, na Califórnia. Começou a carreira literária como jornalista no Chile e na Venezuela. Em 1982, seu primeiro romance, A casa dos espíritos, tornou-se um dos títulos míticos da literatura latino-americana. A ele se seguiram muitos outros, todos com grande sucesso internacional. Seus livros já foram traduzidos para 35 idiomas. Recebeu o Prêmio Nacional de Literatura 2010, no Chile, e o Prêmio Hans Christian Andersen, em 2012, este último pela série As Aventuras da Águia e do Jaguar.