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First Light de Rebecca Stead

First Light

Autor Rebecca Stead
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 apr 2020

Considerăm că First Light reprezintă un punct de plecare fascinant pentru orice tânăr cititor pasionat de mistere geografice și lumi ascunse. Deși este o carte de sine stătătoare, acest volum a marcat debutul literar al autoarei Rebecca Stead, oferind deja acea profunzime emoțională și structură narativă complexă pe care publicul a aclamat-o ulterior în When You Reach Me. Spre deosebire de explorările urbane din lucrările sale mai recente, cum este Liar & Spy, aici Stead ne transportă în peisajul imaculat și periculos al Groenlandei.

Premisa este pe cât de ancorată în realitate, pe atât de fantastică: Peter ajunge în Arctica pentru a studia efectele încălzirii globale alături de părinții săi cercetători, însă începe să aibă viziuni inexplicabile despre locuri îndepărtate. În paralel, o cunoaștem pe Thea, membră a unei comunități izolate sub gheață numită Gracehope, ai cărei strămoși au fugit de persecuții din cauza unor abilități speciale. Intersecția destinelor lor nu este doar o aventură de supraviețuire, ci o descoperire a unor secrete de familie care le vor schimba viitorul.

Pe același raft cu Global de Eoin Colfer, această carte se adresează copiilor de peste 10-12 ani care caută o poveste unde mediul înconjurător este un personaj în sine. Dacă în The Arctic Code de Matthew J. Kirby accentul cade pe supraviețuirea într-o nouă eră glaciară, Rebecca Stead alege o abordare mai intimă, concentrându-se pe structura socială matriarhală a comunității subterane și pe maturizarea personajelor. Ritmul este constant, iar tonul echilibrează rigoarea științifică a expediției cu elementele de realism magic, oferind o experiență de lectură care invită la reflecție asupra modului în care ne raportăm la natură și la propriile origini.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781783449613
ISBN-10: 1783449616
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 127 x 194 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Andersen Press Ltd

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm First Light părinților care doresc să le ofere copiilor o lectură ce îmbină educația ecologică cu fantezia de înaltă calitate. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă empatică asupra schimbărilor climatice, totul fiind ambalat într-un mister captivant despre o civilizație pierdută sub gheață. Este o poartă excelentă către literatura autoarei Rebecca Stead, pregătind terenul pentru temele complexe de prietenie și identitate prezente în întreaga sa operă.

Despre autor

Rebecca Stead este o scriitoare americană de renume, distinsă cu prestigioasa Newbery Medal în 2010 pentru romanul When You Reach Me. Înainte de a se dedica scrisului, a profesat ca avocat, experiență care probabil i-a rafinat precizia în construirea puzzle-urilor narative. Stilul său se remarcă prin modul cald și autentic în care portretizează viața interioară a copiilor aflați la pragul adolescenței. Locuiește în New York alături de familia sa, continuând să scrie povești care explorează puterea imaginației și a conexiunilor umane, așa cum se observă și în colaborarea sa pentru volumul Bob.

Descriere

Peter can't wait to join his parents on an expedition to the ice caps of Greenland to study global warming.And in another world, there is Thea, who lives with her family under the ice, and is desperate to see what's above it. When Thea and Peter meet, two worlds will collide, and a host of secrets will be released.

Notă biografică

Rebecca Stead is a former attorney who lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children. First Light is her first book.

Extras

One

Most boys his age had never touched paper. There was little left. Paper was reserved for fine drawing and important documents. Mattias knew even before he could skate that if he were to harm any of it, if he were to crease one corner of one sheet, the consequences would be serious. But Mattias could not resist his mother’s drawing table. He loved the drawers and panels that opened almost without a sound, the bright vials of dye, the immaculate brushes on their small rack, the smooth wooden box of charcoal. And although he was a very obedient boy in almost every other way, he regularly explored the contents of the table when he found himself alone with it. Mattias knew its every measure, including the shape of the black dye stain that had dried inside one drawer before he was born. And each time he approached the table, he expected to find it exactly as he had always found it before.
Today he found something new.
It was a thick paper envelope, closed but unsealed, underneath his mother’s working sketches. Mattias unwound the string closure slowly, being careful to remember the length that should be left hanging when he tied it again. Inside was a square of paper unlike anything Mattias had ever seen. One side of the square glowed with an image in color, almost as if someone had frozen a moment in time and flattened it, capturing every detail. Even his mother, considered the most talented artist now alive, couldn’t create anything like this. Mattias turned it carefully in his hands, holding the square by its sharp corners. It was an image of two women. Sisters, he thought. And there was something else–a glowing blur behind them.
The sun.


Seven Years Later

A headache, Peter thought as he lay in bed with one arm thrown over his eyes, is something you have to experience to understand. No one can describe a headache to someone who has never had one. He rolled to one side and reached for the little spiral notebook on his night table.
Peter’s mother had gotten headaches for as long as he could remember. They sometimes lasted for days, during which she sat in the red chair next to the pull-out couch where his parents slept. She didn’t eat, or laugh, or make the “proper supper” she otherwise insisted upon. She hardly got up at all. “She’s gone away again,” his father would say. “But she’ll be back.” It happened maybe twice a year.
Everyone said how much Peter was like his mother– their skin that was nearly paper white, their all-over freckles, their wavy hair (hers dark, his blond like his father’s), even the way they sneezed (always twice), and laughed (very quietly, after one loud sort of bark). So Peter had always assumed that, like his mother, he would get headaches one day, and that, when he did, they would be headaches just like hers.
Peter paged through the worn notebook. It had his friends’ phone numbers in it, and the names of some video games he wanted if his parents ever let him get a video game, and the address of a company in Oregon that sold old radio parts for almost no money, and a bunch of other things. He flipped to the inside back cover, where he had made a series of slashes.
Just after his twelfth birthday, Peter’s mother began asking him whether he had a headache. She had never asked him that before, and he couldn’t help thinking it was strange she had to ask at all. Wouldn’t it be obvious when he had a headache? Wouldn’t he, too, sit in the living room and never smile or get hungry? But she kept asking, every week or two, always smiling carefully, as if she were expecting bad news. So they waited, together.
Peter got his first headache a few months later. He knew right away what it was, and three things surprised him about it. First, it lasted only a few hours. Second, although it hurt some, he was able to eat the same salt-and-vinegar potato chips he bought after school every day. Third, he didn’t tell his mother about it.
The only person he told was Miles. He and Miles had been in the same class every year since kindergarten. They knew everything about each other. For instance, Peter knew that Miles only pretended to hate the two stepsisters who lived uptown with Miles’s father and stepmother. The truth was that Miles liked them, and that he liked his Monday and Friday nights at his dad’s– he liked how the apartment was full of life, with friends coming and going, and teasing at dinner, and the way they always ate oranges and popcorn while they watched TV together.
And Miles knew that Peter was afraid to tell his mother about his first headache because it had brought him a little closer to knowing what he had already half-known for years: that his mother’s headaches were not headaches at all, but something else entirely. Something she didn’t want to talk about. Something like sadness.
Then Peter had more headaches. He took the stub of a pencil from where he had wedged it into the spiral of his little notebook and made a mark next to the others. He counted to himself, slowly. His ninth. In a month. He replaced the notebook on the table and rolled over so he could look through the skylight next to his bed.


From the Hardcover edition.

Recenzii

“Peter and Thea are vividly realized. . . . Gracehope itself is sketched with sure strokes, its icy setting and its matriarchal social structure fresh and believable.”—The Horn Book Magazine

 “Stead’s debut novel rests on an intriguing premise. . . . It is a testament to the storytelling that the existence of this parallel world and the convergence of Peter and Thea’s stories, told in separate chapters, are both credible and absorbing. Young readers will find this a journey worth taking.”—Publishers Weekly