by Aidan Chambers · Definitions (Young Adult) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781849416757
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«Dying to Know You» is Aidan Chambers's young adult novel of love and friendship, published by Definitions (Young Adult) in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Karl, a seventeen-year-old with dyslexia, is in love with Fiorella, who asks him to reveal his soul by letter. Convinced he cannot write well, he persuades her favourite novelist to write the letters for him. The task unleashes misunderstandings, an unexpected revelation and a friendship that transforms their lives.
This work was nominated for the Carnegie Medal in 2013; Aidan Chambers won that prize with «Postcards from No-Man's Land».
For young readers aged 12 and over interested in young adult romance, personal growth and relationships between generations.
Aidan Chambers was a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Printz Award for Postcards from No Man's Land (1999). For his "lasting contribution to children's literature" he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.
