by Mary Hoffman · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747562191
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«City of Masks» is the young adult fantasy novel by Mary Hoffman, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Lucien, a teenager ill with cancer, receives a notebook of marbled pages that, while he sleeps, transports him to Bellezza, the sixteenth-century Venice in the parallel world of Talia. There he discovers he is a Stravagante and becomes embroiled in the political intrigues of a city where not all wish well for its ruler.
City of Masks, by Mary Hoffman, is the first instalment of the Stravaganza saga and was published on 21 July 2003.
For young readers aged 12 and up, especially those seeking fantasy with journeys to parallel worlds.
Mary Lassiter Hoffman is a British writer and critic. She has had over 90 books published whose audiences range from children to adults. One of her best known works is the children's book Amazing Grace, which was a New York Times best-seller at 1.5 million copies and a finalist for the 1991 Kate Greenaway Medal. From 2002 to 2012, she wrote the teen fiction series Stravaganza.
