by Mary Hoffman · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747595694
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«Stravaganza: City of Masks» is the young adult fantasy novel by Mary Hoffman, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Lucien, a boy ill with cancer, receives a notebook that transports him to Talia, a parallel world very similar to 16th-century Italy. In Bellezza, a city evoking Venice, the young man becomes embroiled in court intrigues and the struggle for power, where alliances shift and death lurks around every corner.
First instalment of the Stravaganza saga, with elements of fantasy, time travel and historical fiction.
Recommended for young and adult readers interested in fantasy with historical setting and adventure.
Mary Lassiter Hoffman is a British writer and critic. She has had over 90 books published whose audiences range from children to adults. One of her best known works is the children's book Amazing Grace, which was a New York Times best-seller at 1.5 million copies and a finalist for the 1991 Kate Greenaway Medal. From 2002 to 2012, she wrote the teen fiction series Stravaganza.
