by Katherine Paterson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789580423874
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«El Maestro de Las Marionetas» is Katherine Paterson's young adult historical novel, published by Norma in paperback, in Spanish.
Set in eighteenth-century Osaka, it follows a teenager who enters the world of puppeteers in a time of poverty and discontent. The story portrays the art of puppetry, friendship and the search for one's own identity in difficult circumstances.
Translation of the original «The Master Puppeteer» (1975), winner of the National Book Award in 1977; Norma edition in the Zona Libre collection.
Suitable for young readers and adults interested in historical fiction and Japanese culture.
Katherine Paterson is an American writer best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia (1977), which won the Newbery Medal in 1978. For four different books published 1975–1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of four people to win the two major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize in children's literature. Also for her body of work she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2007 and the Children's Literature Legacy Award from the American Library Association in 2013. She was the second US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving 2010 and 2011.
