by Holly Black · UMBRIEL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416517930
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«El libro de la noche» is the fantasy novel by Holly Black, published by Umbriel in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
Charlie Hall is an expert thief who worked for the umbrists, magicians capable of manipulating shadows. Now she tries to leave that world behind, but her sister Posey desires that power and her boyfriend Vince is hiding something from her. When a figure from her past returns, Charlie is caught in a spiral of lies and deaths over a secret everyone craves.
It is the first installment of the bilogy The Charlatan Duology. Translation by Carlos Loscertales Martínez. The original English work, Book of Night, was published in 2022.
Aimed at adult readers of dark fantasy, with morally ambiguous protagonists, secret societies, and dangerous magic.
Holly Black is an American writer and editor best known for her children's and young adult fiction. Her most recent work is the New York Times bestselling young adult Folk of the Air series. She is also well known for The Spiderwick Chronicles, a series of children's fantasy books she created with writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and her debut trilogy of young adult novels officially called the Modern Faerie Tales. Black has won a Nebula Award and a Newbery Honor. The Spiderwick Chronicles was adapted into a 2008 film and into a 2023 television series, for which Black received a nomination for the Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Young Teen Series.
