Nancy Farmer

The Lord of Opium (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the riveting sequel to the acclaimed bestseller The House of the Scorpion, Matt reels from the change in status quo and struggles to do the right thing; find out his story's end in this new edition with a reimagined cover! Matt Alacrán is a fourteen-year-old drug lord. Until recently, Matt was just a clone grown from a strip of El Patrón's skin. Now he is lord of the land of Opium, on the one-time USMexico border, and rules over an army of microchipped, zombielike workers who are programmed to produce the drugs that are Opium's main export. El Patrón kept the air and water in Opium clean, but the rest of the world is a polluted wasteland. Matt is sure that, in his new position, he can find a way to break the cycle of violence and destructionbut it will only be possible if he chooses the right people to trust.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442482562
• Artikelnr.: 39405181

Autorenporträt

Nancy 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.