Summary
Philip Pullman: Polar Light
The girl Lyra Belacqua with her daemon Pantalaimon grows up carefree among the scholars of Jordan College in Oxford. Her enigmatic uncle Lord Asriel brings unrest into this idyll, who tells about the danger that threatens in the far North, about the mysterious celestial substance called Dust and the parallel world that can be seen through the aurora borealis.
Terrible gobblers from the North are kidnapping children, and so they also kidnap Lyra's best friend Roger, and she rushes into the frozen wasteland to save him. She is armed only with a precious instrument (compass), a kind of truth reader. On this path full of uncertainty and sudden twists, Lyra meets nomads, armored polar bears, witch clans... She manages to resist the villains, but danger still threatens. The author's masterful storytelling, excellently drawn characters and the deeper meaning that can be read in this fantastic novel are the reasons why readers all over the world enthusiastically accepted the novel Polarna svjetlost, and literary critics declared it a contemporary fantasy classic. Aurora is the first in Pullman's great trilogy His Dark Body.
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