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Cargando... A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy, Book #1) (edición 2011)por Deborah Harkness (Autor)
Información de la obraEl descubrimiento de las brujas por Deborah Harkness
  
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 "With books about fictional witches, it’s all too easy to fall back on tongue-in-cheek descriptors like “enchanting” or “spellbinding,” but both adjectives aptly describe the superbly entertaining saga Harkness has crafted. This is a riveting tale full of romance and danger that will have you on the edge of your seat, yet its chief strength lies in the wonderfully rich and ingenious mythology underlying the story. Entwining strands of science and history, Harkness creates a fresh explanation for how such creatures could arise that is so credible, you’ll have to keep reminding yourself this is fiction."  As will be obvious by now, this is a very silly novel. Characters and relationships are stereotyped. The historical background is a total pudding. The prose is terrible. And yet, the ideas have just enough suction, somehow, to present an undemanding reader with some nice frissons. I liked, for example, the way Diana tries to sublimate her magic powers in running and rowing and doing yoga – at a mixed vampire-witch-daemonic yoga class, participants struggle not to levitate during their vinyasas. And I liked the way Matthew and Diana smell to each other like Jo Malone candles: Diana is "horehound, frankincense, lady's mantle", Matthew is "cinnamon and clove". "a thoroughly grown-up novel packed with gorgeous historical detail...Harkness writes with thrilling gusto about the magical world. Whether she's describing a yoga class for witches, daemons, and vampires or Diana's benignly haunted house, it's a treat to suspend disbelief. ... As the mysteries started to unravel, the pages turned faster, almost as if on their own. By the most satisfying end, Harkness had made me a believer. "a romantic, erudite, and suspenseful first novel by Deborah Harkness. The first in a planned trilogy, it sets up blood drinkers and spell weavers as enemies for eternity in a feud as old as the Crusades; the duo confront social disapproval and intolerance as they elude evildoers and puzzle out enigmas throughout history. ...Harkness attends to every scholarly and emotional detail with whimsy, sensuality, and humor.  The protagonist is a witch. Her beau is a vampire. If you accept the argument that we’ve seen entirely too many of both kinds of characters in contemporary fiction, then you’re not alone. Yet, though Harkness seems to be arriving very late to a party that one hopes will soon break up, her debut novel has its merits; she writes well, for one thing, and, as a historian at the University of Southern California, she has a scholarly bent that plays out effectively here. Contenido enTiene la adaptaciónAparece abreviada enTiene como guía/complementario de referencia aTiene un comentario del texto enDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Fantasy.
Fiction.
Romance.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: Un manuscrito embrujado, una historia de amor prohibida, una protagonista que reniega de sus orgenes... En el corazn de la Biblioteca Bodleiana de Oxford, la apasionada historiadora Diana Bishop se topa en medio de sus investigaciones con el manuscrito identificado como Ashmole 782. Descendiente de un antiguo linaje de brujas, Diana intuye que el manuscrito est relacionado de alguna manera con la magia, pero no quiere tener nada que ver con la brujera. Y despus de tomar algunas notas sobre sus curiosos dibujos, lo devuelve sin perder ms tiempo a las estanteras. Lo que Diana no sabe es que se trata de un manuscrito alqumico que ha estado perdido durante siglos y cuyo descubrimiento ha desencadenado que hordas de daimones, vampiros y brujas salgan a la luz de las salas de lectura de la Biblioteca. Una de esas criaturas es Matthew Clairmont, un enigmtico genetista, amante del buen vino y vampiro milenario, cuya alianza con Diana se har progresivamente ms ntima y poco a poco surgir entre ambos una relacin que har tambalear los tabes asentados desde hace tiempo en un mundo secreto y encantado. La teora de la evolucin de Darwin no contempl todos los seres que habitan la Tierra, pero Deborah Harkness lo ha hecho en esta emocionante e ingeniosa novela. Desde Oxford a Nueva York, y de aqu a Francia, la magia, la alquimia y la ciencia nos desvelan sus verdaderos vnculos en el libro definitivo sobre la brujera y sus poderes. Resea: No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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