by Philip Pullman · Salani · tapa dura · ISBN 9788867158812
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«La bussola d'oro. Queste oscure materie» is the first instalment of Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy, in hardback, published by Salani (354 pages, Italian).
Lyra grows up at Jordan College, Oxford, in a world where every person has a daimonion, an animal that is the manifestation of their soul. When the Gobblers kidnap children, including her friend Roger, Lyra travels to the frozen north, land of armoured bears and witches, where her uncle Asriel seeks to build a bridge to a parallel world.
First volume of the His Dark Materials trilogy (Queste oscure materie). Italian edition of 2014 published by Salani; the work won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
For young people aged 13 and up, with fantasy and steampunk elements.
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award. In 2017, he started a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust, of which the final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.
