Nancy Farmer

The House of the Scorpion

Winner of the National Book Award 2002 and of the Buxtehuder Bulle 2003

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Produktbeschreibung

This modern classic takes on an iron-fisted drug lord, clones bred for their organs, and what it means to be human. Winner of the National Book Award as well as Newbery and Printz Honors.

Matteo Alacrán was not born; he was harvested. His DNA came from El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium-a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico. Matt's first cell split and divided inside a petri dish. Then he was placed in the womb of a cow, where he continued the miraculous journey from embryo to fetus to baby. He is a boy now, but most consider him a monster-except for El Patrón. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself.

As Matt struggles to understand his existence, he is threatened by a sinister cast of characters, including El Patrón's power-hungry family, and he is surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards. Escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But escape from the Alacrán Estate is no guarantee of freedom, because Matt is marked by his difference in ways he doesn't even suspect.

Produktdetails

• The House of the Scorpion
• Verlag: Atheneum Books for Young Readers / Simon Pulse
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahren
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780689852237
• ISBN-10: 0689852231
• Artikelnr.: 21059805

Autorenporträt

Farmer, NancyNancy Farmer has written three Newbery Honor books: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm; A Girl Named Disaster; and The House of the Scorpion, which also won the National Book Award and the Printz Honor. Other books include The Lord of Opium, The Sea of Trolls, The Land of the Silver Apples, The Islands of the Blessed, Do You Know Me, The Warm Place, and three picture books for young children. She grew up on the Arizona-Mexico border and now lives with her family in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona.

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Contents
YOUTH: 0 TO 6
1. In the Beginning
2. The Little House in the Poppy Fields
3. Property of the Alacrán Estate
4. María
5. Prison
MIDDLE AGE: 7 TO 11
6. El Patrón
7. Teacher
8. The Eejit in the Dry Field
9. The Secret Passage
10. A Cat with Nine Lives
11. The Giving and Taking of Gifts
12. The Thing on the Bed
13. The Lotus Pond
14. Celia's Story
OLD AGE: 12 TO 14
15. A Starved Bird
16. Brother Wolf
17. The Eejit Pens
18. The Dragon Hoard
19. Coming-of-Age
20. Esperanza
21. Blood Wedding
22. Betrayal
AGE 14
23. Death
24. A Final Good-bye
25. The Farm Patrol
LA VIDA NUEVA
26. The Lost Boys
27. A Five-legged Horse
28. The Plankton Factory
29. Washing a Dusty Mind
30. When the Whales Lost Their Legs
31. Ton-Ton
32. Found Out
33. The Boneyard
34. The Shrimp Harvester
35. El Día de los Muertos
36. The Castle on the Hill
37. Homecoming
38. The House of Eternity

Rezensionen

_ "An inspiring tale of friendship, survival, hope, and transcendence." Kirkus, starred review