by Susan Cooper · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070508570
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«Les portes du temps» is the children's and young adult fantasy novel by Susan Cooper, published by Gallimard-Jeunesse in paperback (395 pages, in French).
Will Stanton discovers on his eleventh birthday that he is the last of the Old Ones, immortal guardians of the Light, and that he has been chosen to carry out a mission against the Dark. Amid ancient powers and trials that put his family at risk, Will must learn to distinguish allies from enemies while deciding the fate of the world.
Second installment of the «The Dark Is Rising» saga by Susan Cooper; the English original was published in 1973. This French edition from Folio junior bears the subtitle «À l'assaut des ténèbres».
Aimed at children and young adults; for fantasy readers with mythical elements, magic and the struggle between Light and Dark.
Susan Mary Cooper is an English author of children's books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising, a contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales, which incorporates British mythology such as the Arthurian legends and Welsh folk heroes. For that work, in 2012 she won the lifetime Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association, recognizing her contribution to writing for teens. In the 1970s two of the five novels were named the year's best English-language book with an "authentic Welsh background" by the Welsh Books Council. In 2024, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association named her the 40th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master in recognition of her significant contributions to the literature of science fiction and fantasy.
