Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published in 1995 by Scholastic UK. Set in a parallel universe, it follows the journey of Lyra Belacqua to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious substance known as "Dust". Northern Lights is the first book of the trilogy, His Dark Materials (1995 to 2000). Alfred A. Knopf published the first US edition April 1996, under the name The Golden Compass, under which title it was adapted as a 2007 feature film and as a companion video game. The book has also been adapted as a TV series in 2019 under the name His Dark Materials. Pullman won the 1995 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding British children's …
Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published in 1995 by Scholastic UK. Set in a parallel universe, it follows the journey of Lyra Belacqua to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious substance known as "Dust". Northern Lights is the first book of the trilogy, His Dark Materials (1995 to 2000). Alfred A. Knopf published the first US edition April 1996, under the name The Golden Compass, under which title it was adapted as a 2007 feature film and as a companion video game. The book has also been adapted as a TV series in 2019 under the name His Dark Materials. Pullman won the 1995 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding British children's book. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal, it was named one of the top ten winning works by a panel, composing the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. Northern Lights won the public vote from that shortlist and was thus named the all-time "Carnegie of Carnegies" on 21 June 2007.
La trama scorre via tranquilla, le situazioni sono ben descritte e non ci sono parti affettatamente sentimentali.
È un bel libro che offre qualche colpo di scena, anche se solo uno secondo me è ben riuscito.
Spero mi abbia risvegliato dal letargo di lettura!
Un ottimo modo per iniziare una saga fantasy.
Dopo aver visto il film, qualche puntata del telefilm, ed aver notato un generale disinteresse nel pubblico, mi sono parecchio incuriosita, perché a me le premesse sembravano davvero buone (dai, chi non vorrebbe sapere che forma prenderebbe il proprio daimon?).
L'ho letto in italiano, ma lo stile sembra scorrevole, le descrizioni non si dilungano inutilmente ed i dialoghi sono adatti anche ad un pubblico di ragazzini. Non c'è nulla di troppo complicato, ma non c'è nulla di troppo banale.
L'ho adorato.
Molti dicono che la bellezza della saga si perda nel secondo e nel terzo libro, ma a metà del secondo ancora non mi trovano d'accordo.
