Sinopsis de THE MERLIN CONSPIRACY: TRICK OR TREASON?
A glorious new fantasy from an award-winning author. The story is narrated by two very different teenagers, who each inhabit two extraordinarily different worlds. Arianrhod Hyde's world (or Roddy, as she prefers to be called) is very much the world of magic, pageantry and ritual. Not unlike Britain in King Arthur's Day, Roddy is daughter of two Court Wizards and therefore part of the King's Progress, travelling round the Islands of Blest and ready to take part in whatever ritual or ceremony is required, as it occurs. Presiding over all, the most important person is the Merlin, who is entrusted with the magical health of the Isles of Blest. Nick Mallory's world is much more familiar - at least, it starts off being our own. But it soon transpires that Nick's not quite the ordinary 15 year old he seems, as he slips sideways into something he thinks is a dream - but in fact is another world entirely. Now, Nick's been on other worlds before (although never alone) but he's a confident type. Maybe a bit too confident...In Roddy's world, the current Merlin expires and a new one takes his place. Yet something is wrong - the rituals have been upset and nothing is going the way it should.Roddy needs help, and certain powers indicate that Nick is to be the one to help her. And Nick is cool about helping her - in theory...but it's a bit worrying that she seems to mistake him for a magic-user. Their stories unfold, side-by-side, each part leading into the next, and the Merlin Conspiracy thickens as the tales swirl around each other - twining, meeting and affecting each other, yet never completely combining until the very end chapters when all is finally revealed. Compelling, howlingly funny in places, mind-boggling - this is going to WOW DWJ fans all around the world (and probably in other universes too).
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Harpercollins Pub.
ISBN: 9780007151417
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 472
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Fecha de lanzamiento: 23/06/2003
Año de edición: 2003
Plaza de edición: London
Alto: 22.0 cm
Ancho: 14.0 cm
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones (Londres, 1934) es autora de más de cuarenta novelas y una de las principales voces de la literatura fantástica actual. Licenciada en Filología Inglesa por la universidad de Oxford, de joven asistió a conferencias de J. R. R. Tolkien y C. S. Lewis. En 1977 publicó la primera parte de su aclamada serie Los mundos de Chrestomanci (Nocturna, 2024-2025). Nueve años después apareció su novela más famosa: El castillo ambulante (Nocturna, 2018), que fue llevada al cine en una adaptación de Hayao Miyazaki, cuya historia prosiguió en El castillo en el aire (Nocturna, 2018) y La casa de los mil pasillos (Nocturna, 2018). A lo largo de su trayectoria ha recibido numerosos premios, entre ellos un World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2007). En 2010 publicó Cristal embrujado (Nocturna, 2011) y al año siguiente, tras una larga enfermedad, falleció en Bristol.