by Margaret Mahy · RBA La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474102833
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«L'embruixament» is the children's and young adult novel by Margaret Mahy, published by RBA La Magrana in paperback (128 pages, in Catalan).
A shy eight-year-old boy begins to receive supernatural images and messages that frighten him. He soon discovers a family legacy that could be a curse or a gift, and must learn to live with it while facing love, fate, and pain. It is a story of suspense and fantasy about acceptance and maturity.
«L'embruixament» is volume 055 of the Otros La Magrana collection; the work was originally published as «The Haunting» in 1982 and won the Carnegie Medal and the Esther Glen Award.
For children's and young adult readers who enjoy stories of mystery, fantasy, and supernatural elements.
Margaret Mahy was a New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. Many of her story plots have strong supernatural elements but her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up. She wrote more than 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories. At her death she was one of thirty writers to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for her "lasting contribution to children's literature".
