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Informationen zum Autor PHILIP PULLMAN is one of the most acclaimed writers working today. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy, which has been named one of the top 100 books of all time by Newsweek and one of the all-time greatest novels by Entertainment Weekly. Pullman was knighted for his services to literature in the 2019 New Year Honours. The Book of Dust, Pullman’s eagerly anticipated return to the world of His Dark Materials, will also be a book in three parts. It began with La Belle Sauvage and continues with The Secret Commonwealth. Philip Pullman is the author of many other beloved novels. For younger readers: I Was a Rat!, Count Karlstein, Two Crafty Criminals!, Spring-Heeled Jack, and The Scarecrow and His Servant. For older readers: the Sally Lockhart quartet ( The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North, The Tiger in the Well, and The Tin Princess ), The White Mercedes, and The Broken Bridge. He has written a magnificent collection, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, and his essays and lectures on writing and storytelling have been gathered in a volume called Dæmon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling. Philip Pullman lives in Oxford, England. Klappentext Read by the author and a full cast 8 hours 55 minutes! 8 CDs The universe has broken wide! and Lyra's friend lies dead. Desperate for answers and set on revenge! Lyra bursts into a new world in pursuit of his killer. Instead! she finds Will! just twelve years old and already a murderer himself. He's on a quest as fierce as Lyra's! and together they strike out into this sunlit otherworld. On this journey marked by danger! Will and Lyra forge ahead. But with every step and each new horror! they move closer to the greatest threat of all—and the shattering truth of their own destiny. In this stunning sequel to The Golden Compas! Philip Pullman continues His Dark Materials trilogy and confirms it as an undoubted and enduring classic. AWARDS AND HONORS ALA Best Books for Young Adults Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Horn Book Fanfare Honor Book Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Book Book Links Best Book of the Year Parents' Choice Gold Book Award American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists" Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on ..." But his mother hung back. She was still afraid. Will looked up and down the narrow street in the evening light, along the little terrace of houses, each behind its tiny garden and its box hedge, with the sun glaring off the windows of one side and leaving the other in shadow. There wasn't much time. People would be having their meal about now, and soon there would be other children around, to stare and comment and notice. It was dangerous to wait, but all he could do was persuade her, as usual. "Mum, let's go in and see Mrs. Cooper," he said. "Look, we're nearly there." "Mrs. Cooper?" she said doubtfully. But he was already ringing the bell. He had to put down the bag to do it, because his other hand still held his mother's. It might have bothered him at twelve years of age to be seen holding his mother's hand, but he knew what would happen to her if he didn't. The door opened, and there was the stooped elderly figure of the piano teacher, with the scent of lavender water about her as he remembered. "Who's that? Is that William?" the old lady said. "I haven't seen you for over a year. What do you want, dear?" "I want to come in, please, and bring my mother," he said firmly. Mrs. Cooper looked at the woman with the untidy hair and the distracted half-smile, and at the boy with the fierce, unhappy glare in his eyes, the tight-set lips, the jutting jaw. And th...
