by David Almond · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070543564
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«Le jeu de la mort» is David Almond's young-adult novel, published by Gallimard Jeunesse in paperback (282 pages, in French).
Kit Watson, a 13-year-old boy, moves to Stoneygate, an old mining village, to care for his widowed grandfather. There he meets John Askew, who initiates him into the game of death and takes him to the old mines. Both, descendants of miners, can communicate with the spirits of the children who died in the mining accident of 1821.
French edition of Kit's Wilderness (1999), David Almond's original novel, translated by Anita Van Belle, in the Scripto collection. The work won the Michael L. Printz Award (2001).
For young readers interested in stories about family heritage, friendship and a subtle supernatural.
David John Almond was born May 15, 1951 and is a British author who has written many novels for children and young adults from 1998, each one receiving critical acclaim.
