by Naomi Novik · RBA La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788479014865
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«El drac de sa majestat» is the fantasy novel by Naomi Novik, published by RBA La Magrana in paperback (288 pages, in Catalan).
During the Napoleonic Wars, the crew of the Reliant captures a French frigate carrying a dragon egg. Captain Will Laurence leaves the navy to become Temeraire's master and joins the Aerial Corps, where he learns aerial combat tactics while Bonaparte's forces prepare to invade Britain.
It is the first installment of the Temeraire saga, a Catalan translation of His Majesty's Dragon (2006) by Xavier Llobet Romero; it was a Hugo finalist and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and the Compton Crook Award.
For fantasy and young adult fiction readers seeking adventures with dragons and aerial battles in the Napoleonic era.
Naomi Novik is an American author of speculative fiction. She is known for the Temeraire series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons, and her Scholomance fantasy series (2020–2022). Her standalone fantasy novels Uprooted (2015) and Spinning Silver (2018) were inspired by Polish folklore and the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale respectively. Novik has won many awards for her work, including the Alex, Audie, British Fantasy, Locus, Mythopoeic and Nebula Awards.
