by Mal Peet · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789895574292
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«Tamar» is the historical spy novel by Mal Peet, published by Gailivro in paperback (430 pages, in Portuguese).
In the winter of 1944, two Allied agents parachute into occupied Holland to help the resistance. Half a century later, fifteen-year-old Tamar inherits from her grandfather a box of clues and coded messages that reveal the past of the man whose code name was Tamar: espionage, passion and betrayal in the midst of the Second World War.
Portuguese translation by Leonor Bizarro Marques. The novel won the Carnegie Medal and the Gouden Lijst, and was a finalist for the Manchester Book Award.
For young and adult readers seeking historical narrative with intrigue, espionage and a teenage protagonist.
Malcolm Charles Peet was an English writer and illustrator best known for young adult fiction. He has won several honours including the Brandford Boase, the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize, British children's literature awards that recognise "year's best" books. Three of his novels feature football and the fictional South American sports journalist Paul Faustino. The Murdstone Trilogy (2014) and "Mr Godley's Phantom" were his first works aimed at adult readers.
