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PublisherEdiciones B

ISBN-108466619585

ISBN-139788466619585

eBay Product ID (ePID)65720963

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Book TitleMara Y Dann

Number of Pages544 Pages

LanguageSpanish

TopicScience Fiction / General

Publication Year2007

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorDoris Lessing

Book SeriesAfluentes Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight23.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Reviews"Tenderly perceptive....A resounding affirmation of humanity and what it holds dearest, from one of our most gifted storytellers." -- "Publishers Weekly"(starred review)"On the surface a grand adventure, this novel at its heart makes fascinating argument for the force of affection and the power of the questioning mind." -- "The New Yorker""Provocative and stimulating." -- "Los Angeles Time""A substantial achievement, the latest remarkable book from a seemingly inexhaustible writer."-- "Boston Globe"""Mara and Dann" has the shape of a myth or a folktale....But the book's proportions are those of an epic....Vividly rendered."-- "New York Times Book Review"

SynopsisA brilliantly imagined novel of fantasy and adventure set in a distant, drought-filled future, written by the renowned author of "Love, Again" and "The Golden Notebook.", Víctimas de un complot palaciego, los niños Mara y Dann deben abandonar su familia y país para escapar de una muerte segura. Pese a la constante presencia de enemigos, varias personas les ayudan a llegar a una pequeña aldea, donde una mujer los cría y les, Thousands of years in the future, all the northern hemisphere is buried under the ice and snow of a new Ice Age. At the southern end of a large landmass called Ifrik, two children of the Mahondi people, seven-year old Mara and her younger brother, Dann, are abducted from their home in the middle of the night. Raised as outsiders in a poor rural village, Mara and Dann learn to survive the hardships and dangers of a life threatened as much by an unforgiving climate and menacing animals as by a hostile community of Rock People. Eventually they join the great human migration North, away from the drought that is turning the southern land to dust, and in search of a place with enough water and food to support human life. Traveling across the continent, the siblings enter cities rife with crime, power struggles, and corruption, learning as much about human nature as about how societies function. With a clear-eyed vision of the human condition, "Mara and Dann" is imaginative fiction at its best., Víctimas de un complot palaciego, los niños Mara y Dann deben abandonar su familia y país para escapar de una muerte segura. Pese a la constante presencia de enemigos, varias personas les ayudan a llegar a una pequeña aldea, donde una mujer los cría y les enseña a hacer frente a su difícil existencia. Sin embargo, la persistente sequía que asuela la parte de Ífrik donde se encuentran los hermanos, les fuerza a unirse a los grupos migratorios que avanzan, a través de tierras áridas e infestadas de bestias extrañas y supervivientes de las catástrofes naturales, hacia el Norte, en busca del agua y la civilización. Inician así una gran aventura, durante la cual, si bien su vida se verá a veces amenazada, conocerán los valores y sentimientos que vinculan a los seres vivos por muy distintos que éstos sean, descubrirán emociones hasta entonces ignoradas y llegarán a conocer cuál es su propia identidad.