by Katherine Paterson · EDICIONES SM · tapa dura · ISBN 9788434866997
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«El signo del crisantemo» is the young adult novel by Katherine Paterson, published by EDICIONES SM in hardback (146 pages, in Spanish).
After his mother's death, Muna sets off for the capital in search of his father, a samurai he has never met; he only knows that his father has a chrysanthemum tattooed on his left shoulder. Along the way he crosses paths with a ronin who seems to have the answers and with a craftsman who takes him in after a fire. A story about identity and family bonds.
Volume 18 of the Barco de Vapor Roja collection, translated by Amalia Bermejo Gordón.
Recommended for young readers aged 12 to 14.
Katherine Paterson is an American writer best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia (1977), which won the Newbery Medal in 1978. For four different books published 1975–1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of four people to win the two major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize in children's literature. Also for her body of work she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2007 and the Children's Literature Legacy Award from the American Library Association in 2013. She was the second US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving 2010 and 2011.
