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Synopsis
Para todos aquellos que se han deslumbrado y extasiado con el Oz creado por Maguire, Hijo de bruja es la rica recompensa a su larga espera; la secuela a la querida e inmensamente exitosa Wicked
Diez años después de la publicación de Wicked, el aclamado novelista Gregory Maguire regresa finalmente a la tierra de Oz. Allí nos presenta a Liir, un muchacho adolescente a quien hemos visto por última vez escondido en las sombras del castillo luego de que Dorothy acabó con la Bruja. Golpeado, inconciente, dado por muerto y abandonado en un barranco, Liir está destruido tanto espiritual como físicamente. Pero es atendido en el convento de Santa Glinda por la sumisa novicia Candela, quien le devuelve la voluntad de vivir con sus dones musicales.
¿Qué oscura fuerza dejó a Liir en estas condiciones? ¿Es realmente el hijo de Elphaba? Tiene su escoba y su capa pero, ¿qué hay de sus poderes? ¿Podrá encontrar a su supuesta media hermana Nor, vista por última vez en la prisión prohibida Sudescaleras? ¿Podrá cumplir los últimos deseos de una princesa en su lecho de muerte? En un Oz bajo una nueva y peligrosa administración desde la partida del Brujo, ¿es Liir capaz de mantener un perfil bajo el tiempo suficiente como para crecer y llegar a la adultez?
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About the Author
Gregory Maguire is the author of several best-selling adult novels, including Wicked, which was turned into a Broadway musical. His books for younger readers include the picture book Crabby Cratchitt, the novel The Good Liar, and the popular Hamlet Chronicles series. While writing Leaping Beauty, Mr. Maguire sadly became allergic to all creatures great and small. Now he lives in a house without pets, though he is the father of three happy, noisy small children to whom, at this writing, he has not yet developed allergies.
Review
“Maguire is full of storytelling brio . . . his Oz is meticulously drawn.” (New York Times)
“A tale that adroitly mixes drama, humor, and political satire into a well-knit examination of good and evil.” (Library Journal)
“Maguire has done it again: Son of a Witch is as wicked as they come. . . . Thoroughly entertaining.” (Boston Globe)
“Maguire’s captivating, fully imagined world of horror and wonder illuminates the links between good and evil, retribution and forgiveness.” (People)
“As fantastical as a novel set in Oz should be.” (Entertainment Weekly)
For Wicked:“I fell quickly and totally under the spell of this remarkable, wry, and fully realized story.” ( Wally Lamb, author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much is True)
“An amazing novel.” ( John Updike)
“Save a place on the shelf between Alice and The Hobbit that spot is well deserved.” ( Kirkus Reviews)
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- PublisherRayo
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0061626686
- ISBN 13 9780061626685
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages386
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