by Roddy Doyle · Tapa dura · ISBN 9781407102313
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«Wilderness» is the adventure novel by Roddy Doyle, published by Scholastic (224 pages, in English).
While Tom and Johnny go on a husky-drawn sledding trip through Finland, their half-sister Grainne stays in Ireland to reunite with the mother who abandoned her. When the boys get lost in the snow, the trip becomes a fight for survival in the wild.
Originally published in 2007, it won the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award for Irish Children's Book of the Year (senior category) in 2008.
Recommended for young adult readers and for those seeking a story of adventure and survival.
Roderick Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
