To the Island
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Fia longs to visit the mysterious island. One night a moonbeam reaches across the bay and leads her there.
Il romanzo d'esordio di Patricia Forde esplora il potere e il significato delle parole, segnando il suo passaggio alla scrittura per giovani adulti. Il suo lavoro approfondisce come il linguaggio plasma la nostra percezione della realtà e del mondo che ci circonda. La voce distintiva di Forde fonde giocosità e profonda intuizione, rendendola una narratrice avvincente. Crea narrazioni che sono sia coinvolgenti che stimolanti, invitando i lettori a considerare i significati più profondi incorporati nel linguaggio.




Fia longs to visit the mysterious island. One night a moonbeam reaches across the bay and leads her there.
A world devastated by climate change. A society ruled by fear. And a girl brave enough to take a stand. Now an outlaw, Letta's world is more dangerous than ever. The new ruler of Ark has limited language to under five hundred words and there are terrible whispers of babies disappearing in the night. Letta devotes herself to keeping language alive, teaching in secret illegal schools, but at great risk. And when disaster strikes, she takes the blame. Haunted by grief and hunted by gavvers, she and Marlo are forced to flee, in the process discovering the terrible plan to wipe out language for good.
Letta, charged with collecting and saving words, uncovers a sinister plan to suppress language, robbing the people of Ark of the power of speech, and realizes she must also save the culture, itself