by Philip Pullman · Scholastic · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780439994125
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«Northern Lights» is the fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published by Scholastic in paperback (416 pages, in English).
Lyra Belacqua grows up in an Oxford different from ours, where every person has a dæmon. When Lord Asriel, Lyra's uncle, returns from the north, Lyra uncovers a conspiracy: missing children and a substance called Dust. The journey to the Arctic takes Lyra to armored bears, witch clans and experiments that should not exist.
First installment of the «His Dark Materials» trilogy, originally published in 1995; this edition is from 2001.
Recommended reading from age 11, also appealing to adults for its blend of fantasy, science and theology.
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award. In 2017, he started a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust, of which the final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.
