by Holly Black · Mondadori · tapa dura · ISBN 9788804554684
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«Le fate sotto la città» is Holly Black's young adult fantasy novel, published by Mondadori in hardcover (252 pages, in Italian).
Val flees to New York and befriends three squatters living in the subway tunnels. They show her a hidden world of animated gargoyles and exiled faeries who depend on a luminous potion, the Never, to survive. Ravus, a troll accused of mysterious deaths, involves her in his deliveries, and Val must choose a side as she falls in love with him.
Second novel in the Modern Faerie Tales series, originally published under the title Valiant and winner of the Andre Norton Award.
Recommended for young adult readers and fans of urban fantasy with faeries, magic, and romance.
Holly Black is an American writer and editor best known for her children's and young adult fiction. Her most recent work is the New York Times bestselling young adult Folk of the Air series. She is also well known for The Spiderwick Chronicles, a series of children's fantasy books she created with writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and her debut trilogy of young adult novels officially called the Modern Faerie Tales. Black has won a Nebula Award and a Newbery Honor. The Spiderwick Chronicles was adapted into a 2008 film and into a 2023 television series, for which Black received a nomination for the Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Young Teen Series.
